What is a body behind the screen living through? The screen both reveals and masks. Through two clinical vignettes of sessions conducted through video-conferencing, this article will explore the question the presence and circulation of meaning on both sides of the screen. Is seeing the world while seated in front of a screen really the same thing as taking part in this world? Must one choose between seeing and indwelling?
Adolescence, 2020, 40, 2, 295-308.
Man has dreamed of mastering his psychic, ecological and virtual environment, through a frantic race against any form of limit, whether of time, of space, of resources or of the body. The current situation undermines the narrative of man as center of the universe, as he is forced to acknowledge that he is peripheral in relation to what he presumed to dominate. Would the parental generation thus be paying tribute to adolescents for saving them from humiliation? How, then, can one inhabit one’s body and psyche, if the promised future is the end screen?
Adolescence, 2021, 39, 1, 167-186.