analytical Clinic today:
"Applications of Psychoanalysis and virtual links.
Authors: Luciana P.
Reale
BA in Psychology (UAJFK)
Martin C. Rodriguez
System Analyst (UAI)
Modern civilization manifests the problem by the shock of the society, customs, traditions, contemporary individualism and the era of mass consumption that breaks with established since the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and provides an "Age of emptiness." What
social Lacanian psychoanalysis? From S. Freud's identification, object relations, just as are "social" in J. Lacan on the issue of the relationship with the Other in the subjective constitution. We could say that "psychic reality is social reality", as well as Freud (1921) argues that individual psychology is, from the beginning, a social psychology since, as the founder of psychoanalysis in "Group Psychology and analysis of the Self "-" concrete individual psychology, indeed, the isolated man and investigates the ways in which it seeks to achieve the satisfaction of his instincts, but only rarely and under certain exceptional conditions is given dispense with the individual's relationships with their peers. In individual mental life always appears composed, indeed, - the other - as a model, object, auxiliary or adversary "-.
From the clinic, finds that the mass individualism has consequences for the social bond and its rupture, incarnated in Current subjectivity.
is why the special and diverse manifestations of contemporary malaise expressed in symptoms (sinthome) that reflect the fragility of the bonds.
When referring to the symptoms, says A. Miller (1998): "The symptom is what makes champions" in his text "The signs of enjoyment." The symptom is that which insists on a subject, - sign of things to not walk in reality - she says Lacan, and Freud found that, thanks to the insistence, a pleasure unknown to the subject itself, an unconscious pleasure because to the satisfaction of the drive. This is what Freud called - negative therapeutic reaction - and that Lacan named as enjoyment, "enjoyment of the symptoms." The enjoyment is the satisfaction of the drive in the symptom. Expressions of
contemporary symptoms appear: addictions, eating disorders, violence, places of isolation, boredom, contemporary cynicism, depression, panic attacks, passage to the act, existential vacuum, among others, which indicate the discomforts of the XXI century. Also refer to such discomforts of the drive modes in modern times, various forms of cynical enjoyment that also demonstrate the return on social reality, which requires the presence of another to obtain the satisfaction or ruin the body another, always at the expense of relations with the other.
However, with the advance of science and technology within social dimension, new media that establish social bonds with others. The media most known and used worldwide, which refers to the imperative of the era, is the network of networks: the Internet. One of the features found in the "virtual network" is the free access to all that the subject deposited as a user of the virtual world, starting to establish some "virtual bonds" that invite the mass consumption.
Of all the changes generated in our lives the emergence of the network of networks is one that stands out above the others and is the way that people changed their ways of interaction. This amendment was not a replacement of them but rather by an upgrade or update in most cases. With the advent of new technologies, new modes of establishing exchanges between subjects and thus was born a revolution in the area of \u200b\u200bcommunication. The arrival of so-called Web 2.0 (a kind of second-generation Internet in focusing on user communities and blogs), a term coined by Tim O'Reilly, did nothing to accentuate this trend to promote virtual networks, which seem continue to grow as the magnitude of its scope is still unknown. Under this
, virtual networks, "says be able to help connect and share with people you know. " These virtual networks also offer the possibility of establishing communication between subjects simultaneously and in some cases offer the emergence of new social ties with others from around the world.
But how is this phenomenon of virtual communication can have an impact on how people perceive affection, or they can offer? Undoubtedly, this revolution has contributed to the smoothness and speed to establish contact between humans. This can move very quickly to link with the other. And as instant communication aid and the formation of new relationships, may encontrársele some counterpart: when these relationships are terminated, the process may not be as automatic and instantaneous.
For this reason, virtual networks trigger certain effects that are manifested in the "analytical clinic today," by the presence of new symptoms. It is noted that these virtual networks, increasingly contain more information on the subject, from images, videos, reviews, discussions, notes, groups and history that the same register as a user of the program with the mark of his "first and last name "in the face of a space (a place), which provides virtual network. This generates a series of remarkable events, as might be the reunion with people who at one time traveled the life of the subject and that they are part of his personal history. Then we could say the Web "reenacts the past through the virtual, in the present? Those people, "which are part of that history," and that the subject never ever thought I could return to "connect", suddenly appear as a set of bits "embodied in a computer monitor storming the subjectivity of it.
Take a classic and common today happens often and is frequently heard in our offices. What happens when a relationship ends? In the not so distant past, would likely result in breaking some letters and photos, in three other things. Disappear, then, physically, anything that reminded that other is no longer in the case of having to "eliminate" the other's presence. That is, the separation was reduced to no answer and / or make more phone calls. But today the situation has some different dyes.
Web interaction is amplified to the point at which subjects can be linked as "friends" within various user communities. Where not only the link is represented virtually, but also documented in the electronic media all the signs that the relationship existed and was embodied in the network. This may be in the form of textual records "or even number of" multimedia "as: Images and videos" hung "from various sites dedicated to these purposes. Therefore, the act of separation can leave a significant trace on the Web and of the removal action is a further step on the way to the realization of that reality. Delete emails from more than one account, decoupled from other users in several communities and / or instant messaging programs, remove images and videos, etc. What remains to be seen then, is what kind of connotation is for the person to get to run those operations, and the same could be generated in the case of the end of a friendship, or the loss of a loved one. That is, there is now a parallel world between a "concrete and material" and a world depicted in "ones and zeros" that seem to coexist and affect in ways not previously known to people.
Also, within the virtual world the individual takes actions "by a screen through, perhaps in another era concrete, but not evident" so publicly "to others and less to the the person who would hide. In this way, we could say that the subject objectifies the other evidence and leaving no possibility of taking a position (due to the speed with which actions are carried on the network) and this leads to weakening of the bond with the other.
As is the case of those neurotic, for example in a man - taking into account the concept of Freud (1912) from "double vision the object" - which features such as marital status, the condition of being "married" and is reunited with a lover or ex - partner currently using virtual network - as it facilitates the meeting between the two subjects - as well make the unconscious appearances, the virtual network would lead to a lifting of repression. In this way the subject can realize the act, which is manifested in the virtual network, where all the "contacts" have access to it, even to the person who should not take the hint the episode, so to speak.
These virtual networks, which respond to the demands of contemporary master discourse, promote the emergence of a subject "more actuator" as incorporating the social norms of the network, which presents some options such as "seek," "accept "," delete "," admit "," no support "offered by the world virtual, there are split seconds to one or more actions to materialize.
After exposure of the subject's life in a virtual network, we could argue that there would be a need for recognition of the subject by others (lowercase) of another (with a capital), because such recognition environment of the appear labile and fragile, referring to the breakdown of social ties.
The social bond, as one does not exist (or exists only as a face), there is from another country and another. So there are multiple languages. It is the symptom that object to this social bond, but at the same time is holding the discourse as singular connection mode between people speaking through symptomatic ties: just speaking from the symptom.
part of the appointment of E. Laurent (2000) designed to place the value of the "consistency of the symptom", ie the symptom as such, which will serve as the first turn which leads to the ethics of psychoanalysis: "There is no clinical discipline concerned Psychoanalysis as well as reduce the symptoms to a singularity. " Clearly indicates the particular use made of the symptom in psychoanalysis and differentiates it from any other practice.
Anyway, the virtual network, is considered a most useful tool for establishing new contacts between individuals, exchange ideas, engage with others, as well as purchases and sales of some object in different parts of the world and communicate with one's environment. These promote a certain extent that the subject's desire to circulate through these networks as well as allows you to interact with other objects.
In the same way that the instantaneous search leads us to live lives dizzying where interpersonal relationships we study the minimum time and at the same time the existence in the cyberspace allows interaction with hundreds of people, including those in the past had not been contacted by other means (by distance of space or time) and also with those with whom there was no prior contact outside the virtual world.
Which brings us to raise several questions: How many people can maintain a lush, interesting and lasting? Is it possible that there is a limit? How many people that relationship to go beyond virtual reality to the plane of material? Is it important to pass the plane of the concrete world in this period characterized by the fragility of the social bond?
So what would be the place of psychoanalysis in the culture and the tender offers on its possible uses?
The proposal of the possible uses of psychoanalysis, is to verify within the analytical device, opening a space in which each subject, to get involved and make their suffering in a symptom "most livable" which will allow a link to the other, taking into account the progress of science, the emergence of new "virtual links" which refer to contemporary society.
Each analyst, from contemporary symptoms, you should remove the subjective particularity of each case, leading "to the word" so that the subject "speak" and thus its production emerge demands a different position, contrary to a pure joy cynical and deadly.
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Year: 2009
