Psychoanalysis, Identity, and the Internet - Explorations Into Cyberspace

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Marzi, Andrea

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Marzi
• Assisted by: Andrea Marzi (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781782204312
• ISBN: 978-1-78220-431-2
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Library of Technology and Ment; The Library of Technology and Mental Health; The Library of Technology and Mental Health; Library of Technology and Ment
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis