Psychoanalysis, Identity, and the Internet: Explorations Into Cyberspace

ISBN-13: 9780367326296 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 268 str.

Andrea Marzi

Opis

This book is comprehensive and profound, concrete and symbolic, a Herculean integration of the technical and the psychoanalytic. It explains technology and definitions of cyberspace, virtual reality, and social media, and presents the view that technology is a destructive force in psychoanalysis.

Spis treści

Series Editor's Preface -- FOREWORD -- Introduction -- Cyberspace, Cybernetics, and Society -- Cyberspace: the metaphor of metaphors -- From Prometheus to Big Brother: a prosthetic god, truly magnificent -- Exploring the subtle mental boundary between the real and the virtual -- Identity in Cyberspace -- Identity work in the time of cyberspace -- Cyberghosts from the depths -- Virtual Space and Clinical Psychoanalysis -- "Lorenzo": psychotic addiction to video games -- "On my days off, I'm an elf": psychic pain and resolution in cyberspace -- Epistemophily—epistemopathy: use of the internet between normality and disease

O autorze

Marzi, Andrea