The Unconscious in the Digital Age: What Freud and Lacan Would Have Seen on Our Screens

David Sahyoun, 10/09 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Psychoanalysis Freud Lacan Social Media Culture Unconscious

Freud repeatedly insisted that the unconscious cannot be grasped directly; it reveals itself instead through slips of the tongue, dreams, fantasies, and symptoms. Today, the web provides a stage where these formations of the unconscious assume new forms. Each Google search, each video watched on repeat, each story posted—or deleted—becomes the ...