Dialogues on the Digital Psyche

This chapter develops a psychoanalytic framework for understanding how digital technologies shape psychic life through two key concepts: technoplasticity and psychotechnical becoming . Technoplasticity refers to the psyche's malleability when digital architectures organise how inscription occurs (not just what gets inscribed). Psychotechnical becoming refers to the developmental and relational processes that unfold within this technoplastic milieu, naming the ways in which subjectivity is now lived, formed, and transformed through our engagement with technology. Drawing on Simondon, Deleuze, Stiegler, Malabou, and Heidegger, the chapter situates digital life as a field of reciprocal shaping between psyche and technical apparatus, resisting technological determinism. It introduces the notion of fold-moments , where digital interfaces co-produce affective experience, highlighting how online temporality and spatiality inflect anticipation, recognition, and loss. Attending to these technologically inflected affects requires a dual analytic stance – one that listens simultaneously to unconscious dynamics and to the structuring logics of the interface. The chapter thus equips psychoanalysis with a vocabulary for understanding digital subjectivity's entanglement of unconscious life and technical architecture, acknowledging both its pathological impasses and creative potentialities.