PSYCHOANALYSIS TODAY: OBJECTIFIED DIGITAL MINDS AND LOST HEARTS ON THE CYBERCOUCH
Date: Sunday, February 23, 2014 – 9:30am – 4:30pm
Location: Ukrainian East Village Restaurant, 140 2nd Ave (@ 9th Str.), NYCPresenter – Dr. Margaret Yard:Discussants – Dr. Ruth Danonand Dr. Jeffrey Lewis Moderator – Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler
At the age of Google, Facebook, on-line dating, falling in love and breaking up on Internet; at the time of on-line and off-line life merging and becoming a part of non-personal, or even post-personal world, – should the therapists and analysts, parents and teachers embrace or resist this change?
Dr. Margaret Yard will query the fairly new phenomenon of the CYBERCOUCH in terms of what object relations digitalized represents. Is it an extension or a mutation of traditional concepts of the internal world being played out between the self and the object? This conference will explore the CYBERCULTURE-related conditions which mediate personal and social object relations through the roles of avatars, phantom limbs and life experience, sensor powered experiences, and tailored exchanges. In the end, however, we query the human heart and its survival within digitalized contexts. In the end, we query the survival of deep relational human life and it’s prerequisites of feeling and attachment.
Our afternoon program will include the extensive panel-audience discussion, as well asdramatization of such new CYBERCOURCH syndromesof the “Internet overload,” “fear of missing out,” or FOMO; “Internet addiction,” etc.
Earn 4.5 CE / post-graduate education credits! For more information about the conference, its schedule, bios, fees, and scholarships – please visit http://ORINYC.org/conf.html , write to ORI Administrator at admin@ORINYC.org or call 646-522-1056.