This concluding chapter consolidates the book's central argument: thatpsychology constitutes not a peripheral concern but the methodological and theoretical core of Simondon's entirephilosophical project, functioning as a transversal axis capable of articulating ontological, technical, vital, andrelational dimensions within a unified theory of individuation. Rooted in three foundational principles —metastability, creative discontinuity, and the temporal irreversibility of psychic processes — Simondon's geneticpsychology is shown to underpin both ILFI and MEOT, whose apparent bifurcation is reread as a ramificationunified by an allagmatic intent. Key texts examined across the volume, from Formes, information, potentiels to the1965–66 course on imagination and invention, confirm the psyche's role as a mediating and ontogenetically creativeforce in which affectivity, rather than cognition, operates as the primary driver of psychic and collectiveindividuation. The chapter identifies the dispersal of Simondon's psychological writings across poorly knowncollections as a chief cause of their marginalisation in international scholarship, and calls for a critical editorialproject to restore the unity of his psychological design. Looking forward, Simondonian genetic psychology ispositioned as a productive theoretical paradigm in dialogue with neuroscience, complexity theory, aesthetics, andthe philosophy of technology, with particular potential for rethinking subjectivity in mediatised and automatedenvironments. A comparative engagement with Bernard Stiegler's pharmacology of technique is proposed as aprivileged avenue for actualising Simondon's project within the urgent contemporary stakes of digital life.

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  • Francesca Sunseri

摘要

This concluding chapter consolidates the book's central argument: thatpsychology constitutes not a peripheral concern but the methodological and theoretical core of Simondon's entirephilosophical project, functioning as a transversal axis capable of articulating ontological, technical, vital, andrelational dimensions within a unified theory of individuation. Rooted in three foundational principles —metastability, creative discontinuity, and the temporal irreversibility of psychic processes — Simondon's geneticpsychology is shown to underpin both ILFI and MEOT, whose apparent bifurcation is reread as a ramificationunified by an allagmatic intent. Key texts examined across the volume, from Formes, information, potentiels to the1965–66 course on imagination and invention, confirm the psyche's role as a mediating and ontogenetically creativeforce in which affectivity, rather than cognition, operates as the primary driver of psychic and collectiveindividuation. The chapter identifies the dispersal of Simondon's psychological writings across poorly knowncollections as a chief cause of their marginalisation in international scholarship, and calls for a critical editorialproject to restore the unity of his psychological design. Looking forward, Simondonian genetic psychology ispositioned as a productive theoretical paradigm in dialogue with neuroscience, complexity theory, aesthetics, andthe philosophy of technology, with particular potential for rethinking subjectivity in mediatised and automatedenvironments. A comparative engagement with Bernard Stiegler's pharmacology of technique is proposed as aprivileged avenue for actualising Simondon's project within the urgent contemporary stakes of digital life.