Andrea Marzi

Psychoanalysis, Identity, and the Internet

Explorations Into Cyberspace

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• The Library of Technology and Mental Health
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9781782204312
• ISBN-10: 1782204318
• Artikelnr.: 44795612

Autorenporträt

Marzi, Andrea

Inhaltsangabe

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