This article takes into account the importance of studying prostheses in contemporary informational culture and bringing the concept closer to the domain of psychopathology, through the idea that psychopharmacological substances often function as psychic prostheses. In this article I critically discuss the use of new technologies, especially those of a biotechnological nature, including psychopharmacology, which could be interpreted in a long-term metaphysical project. In this sense, the logic of the will involved, is revealed. In the search for strategies to resist the endless will of the real, by which the subject himself is affected, based on the most varied forms, psychoanalysis is seen as a kind of tragic téchne, the heir to an ethical and aesthetical transmission of existence, in an attempt to give back to contemporary man an awareness of his own tragic being, through which life can be asserted as the temporality of joy, pain and finitude, therefore modulating the use of pharmacological substances which are often used as prostheses.
Psychofarmacology; will for power; willingness; panic