Psychoanalysis, Identity, and the Internet

Explorations Into Cyberspace
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78220-431-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 441 g

Reihe: The Library of Technology and Mental Health

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.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marzi, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Marzi, Andrea