To navigate is to fantasize: virtual relations and psychoanalysis

Authors

  • Patrícia do Prado Ferreira-Lemos PUC São Paulo

Keywords:

psychoanalysis, fantasy, virtual relations, cyberspace.

Abstract

In order to reflect upon social relationships in contemporary society, it is indispensable to rely on relationships settled in network virtual environments. Indeed, these represent the most popular kind of social bonding in present days, especially due to its unique online dimension. This article studies relationships settled through virtual communities, especially taking them in the light of psychoanalytic theories of fantasy and psychic reality. We privilege researching a number of fake profiles present in Orkut, a social network site, which offered us plentiful substance to support our thesis.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Patrícia do Prado Ferreira-Lemos, PUC São Paulo

Doutoranda em Psicologia Social pela PUC-SP, Mestre em Psicanálise, Saúde e Sociedade pela Universidade Veiga de Almeida (RJ), especialista em Psicologia Clínica pela PUC-Rio e graduada em Psicologia pela Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp-Assis)

Downloads

Published

2011-01-12

How to Cite

Ferreira-Lemos, P. do P. (2011). To navigate is to fantasize: virtual relations and psychoanalysis. Psico, 42(1). Retrieved from https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/revistapsico/article/view/6454

Issue

Vol. 42 No. 1 (2011)

Section

Articles

License

Copyright

The submission of originals to Psico implies the transfer by the authors of the right for publication. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication. If the authors wish to include the same data into another publication, they must cite Psico as the site of original publication.

Creative Commons License

Except where otherwise specified, material published in this journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which allows unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original publication is correctly cited.