From an object relations perspective, social media can be seen as a space where individuals project internalized early relationships, seek validation, and form attachments to the technology itself as an "object".

If I had to take a bet of what the majority of iPhone owners are doing right now, it would be very simple → they’re looking at their iPhone. Hardware that powerful, produces an image that is equally powerful and equally shared. The iPhone’s image is one of self-attention.

Each hardware paradigm releases a sort of canonical image that goes along... See more

On Perversion

For the psychotherapist Lacan, the pervert isn’t simply someone with transgressive desires - they’re someone who structures their entire relationship to the world through the gaze of the Other. The pervert makes themselves an instrument of someone else’s enjoyment, constantly performing for an imagined audience.

This is precisely what... See more