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".
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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
Each hardware paradigm releases a sort of canonical image that goes along... See more
In Search of New Software Cultures
Žižek sees the overanalysis of one’s behaviors, whether through psychoanalysis, self-help, or introspection as a form of paralysis, a neoliberal trap that prevents true change.
Modern culture encourages people to “find their true selves,” but Žižek argues that:
– There is no fully coherent, authentic self... See more
gizem.digitalinstagram.comOn 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
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