Reality in collapse: a psychoanalytic reading on detachment from reality in the age of digital devices
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psychoanalysis; reality; social networks; manipulation; digital technologyAbstract
AbstractThis article examines the psychic and social impact of excessive use of digital devices—particularly smartphones—on subject formation and perception of reality. Grounded in Freud and Lacan and engaging with Debord, Baudrillard, Zuboff, and Byung-Chul Han, it offers a psychoanalytic reading of contemporary alienation and attention manipulation by digital platforms. The discussion addresses the weakening of the symbolic order and the dissolution of shared reality, concluding with a reflection on psychoanalysis as a means to resist subjective capture and the collapse of the real in the digital age.
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