Journal title PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA
Author/s Fabio Fiorelli
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/2
Language Italian Pages 21 P. 143-163 File size 282 KB
DOI 10.3280/PSP2021-002010
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In this work, the author questions the possible consequences of current transformations in the technological field on psychoanalytic theo-ry and practice. In particular, the progressive "virtualization" of reality is taken into consideration, which many authors, in the philosophical and non-philosophical fields, detect. If the notion of reality as it has always been thought of ‒ for example as opposed to fantasy and imagination ‒ is lost, are the categories that psychoanalysis uses and that de-rive from a thought that was constituted before such transformations took place, still valid? The notion of genealogy itself seems to be in profound transformation: how does it affect some of the foundations on which psychoanalysis rests, for example the difference between generations? The body too appears subject to the same work of dema-terialization and dissemination; the recent works of artists who use what new technologies make available would testify to this. Isn’t it necessary then to rethink some of the foundations of psychoanalysis precisely starting, however, from the classical method which can still provide a probe and a scientific look at this new category of human that seems to be forming? Even in the psychoanalytic sphere itself we are reflecting on the impact of these changes, perhaps irreversible, and confronting the need to identify a possible, but probably necessary, point of balance between the psychoanalytic tradition, with its instru-ments of investigation, and the "new" that is manifesting itself.
Keywords: virtual, reality, fantasy, psychoanalysis, technology, trans-formations.
Fabio Fiorelli, La scomparsa della realtà in "PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA" 2/2021, pp 143-163, DOI: 10.3280/PSP2021-002010