Unconscious Cook: On the Speed and the Temporality of Analytic Processes in Digital Contexts

Drawing on Freud’s indeterminate analytic pace, Deleuze’s reading of Spinoza’s relational speeds and Patricia Clough’s technological unconscious, this article examines how digital media reveal and transform the heterogeneous temporalities of psychic life. Extending Bion’s psychic metabolization through Winnicott’s rhythms of separation and return and Luciana Parisi’s account of connections across bodies and machines, it develops “co-metabolization” to conceptualize how algorithms participate in the processing, circulation and temporal organization of affect and experience. Bringing these processes into relation with Foucault’s political reason and Virilio’s politics of speed, it argues for an analytic attunement to unequal bodily, computational and historical tempos that sustains unconscious movement and keeps the meaning of analytic speed open.