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1 online resource |
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The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic ideas and applications series |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD; PREFACE; BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES; CHAPTER ONE Intimacy in a virtual world; CHAPTER TWO Could your next analyst be a computer? Psychoanalysis in the digital era; CHAPTER THREE Love and analysis in a virtual world: the perverse side: a psychoanalytic perspective on Her by Spike Jonze; CHAPTER FOUR Pornography as intimacy blocker; CHAPTER FIVE Virtual objects, virtual grief: reflections on Black Mirror; CHAPTER SIX From illusion to creative act: a possible interpretation of Her |
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CHAPTER SEVEN The virtual dimension in love affairs and therapeutic relationships: love and death in Giuseppe Tornatore's filmsCHAPTER EIGHT Customising the object: some psychoanalytic reflections on Spike Jonze's Her; CHAPTER NINE Her: the future of a desire; CHAPTER TEN Love your echo: virtual others and the modern Narcissus; CHAPTER ELEVEN 'I don't know what I feel. Is it love?'; CHAPTER TWELVE Her: the object in the virtual world; CHAPTER THIRTEEN The evaporated body: a dream, a limit, or a possibility?; INDEX |
| Summary |
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Virtual Intimacy and Communication in Film brings together a group of psychoanalysts to explore, through film, the new forms of communication, mainly the internet, that enter more and more frequently into the affective lives of people, their intimacy and even the analytic room. The contributors, all practising psychoanalysts, analyse the potential andsurprising transformations that human relationships, including psychoanalysis, are undergoing. At present, it is difficult to value the future importance and predict the possible disquieting consequences of the use and abuse of the new technologies; we run the risk of finding ourselves unprepared to face this revolutionary transformation in human connections and affects. Will it be possible in a near future that human beings prefer to fall in love with a machine gifted with a persuasive voice instead of a psychoanalyst 'in person'? The contributors explore the idea that virtual intimacy could begin to replace real life, in sentimental and psychoanalytic relationships. Imagination and fantasy may be strengthened and may ultimately prevail over the body, excluding it entirely. Can the voice of the analyst, sometimes transmitted only by telephone or computer, produce a good enough analytic process as if it were in-person, or will it help to foster a process of idealisation and progressive alienation from real life and connections with other human beings? The film Her (2013), alongside others, offers a wonderful script for discussing this matter, because of the deep and thoughtful examination of love and relationships in the contemporary world that it provides. Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Virtual Intimacy and Communication in Film will be of great interest to all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists interested in the ongoing impact of technology on human relationships |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Intimacy (Psychology) in motion pictures.
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Long-distance relationships in motion pictures.
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Internet in motion pictures.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Psychoanalysis.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health.
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body.
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communication.
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film.
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Her.
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internet.
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intimacy.
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psychoanalysis.
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technology.
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Long-distance relationships in motion pictures
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Internet in motion pictures
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Intimacy (Psychology) in motion pictures
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sabbadini, Andrea, editor
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Kogan, Ilany, editor
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Golinelli, Paola, editor
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| ISBN |
9780429826962 |
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0429826966 |
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9780429826979 |
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0429826974 |
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9780429826955 |
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0429826958 |
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9780429448195 |
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0429448198 |
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