The situation of an adolescent at the margins of the social bond will enable an exploration of the way that digital networks and geek culture can serve as supports to the therapeutic relation. An exploration of the enigmatic encounter with the other and the sexual will be articulated with the potential for a new formulation made possible via re-creative spaces. Reception via cultural objects and availability through listening will accompany the appropriation of limits in this unique moment.
What place do new communication technologies have in analytic protocol? Is it possible to carry out analytic work, conduct a “session” digitally, when this work is by nature apart from classic social relations and the usual forms of pressure and domination? The analytic stage-setting guarantees a stopping of panoptical ways of seeing. What are the “digital” possibilities of analytic treatment?
This article suggests three imaginary representations – exile, combat and masquerade – as illustrations of the unconscious forces that give rise to the digital behavior of adolescents.
Adolescence, 2012, 30, 1, 101-106
Revue semestrielle de psychanalyse, psychopathologie et sciences humaines, indexée AERES au listing PsycINFO publiée avec le concours du Centre National du Livre et de l’Université de Paris Diderot Paris 7