Title: The New Meaning of the Body
Subtitle: How Digital Culture Is Transforming Our Relationship with Our Bodies and Ourselves
Subject Classification:  Psychology, Society and Culture, Technology  
BIC Classification: JMU, MMH
BISAC Classification: PSY031000, SOC052000, PSY036000
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Jan 2027
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80866-216-4
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80866-217-1

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Description

This book explores how digital culture is transforming the psychological and cultural meaning of the human body, increasingly turning it from a lived dimension of the self into an object of representation, evaluation, and social visibility. Drawing on cultural psychology, phenomenology, psychoanalytic thought, and research on social media and eating disorders, it proposes an integrative framework for understanding the changing relationship between the body, identity, agency, and selfhood in the digital age.

The book introduces several interconnected concepts, including the 'algorithmic gaze,' 'algorithmic self-objectification,' and the 'digital double.' It meticulously traces how these processes impact embodiment, identity, sexuality, and agency. By examining the migration of the self into its digital representation and the implications for mental health, The New Meaning of the Body provides an essential, integrative framework for academics, clinicians, and students in psychology, sociology, and media studies.

Biography

Author(s):  Ferenc Túry is a renowned psychiatrist whose clinical and academic work has significantly shaped the fields of psychosomatic medicine and eating disorder research in Hungary and beyond. He is affiliated with Semmelweis University in Budapest, where he served as the Chair of the Institute of Behavioural Sciences from 2007 to 2016.

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