Psychoanalysis

When AI Meets Therapy: The Promise and Pitfalls of Digital Healing

David Sahyoun, 16/04 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

Psychoanalysis Therapy Artificial Intelligence AI Culture

AI (artificial intelligence) is a computer system designed to replicate human thought and behavior. It can reason, process information, and search for answers across vast pools of relevant content available online. A chatbot, by contrast, is a conversational tool designed to simulate human interaction. It runs on pre-scripted responses, ...

‘Always Be Drunk:’ Remedy or Illusion in the Face of Existential Emptiness?

David Sahyoun, 09/04 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Psychoanalysis Drunkness Baudelaire Culture Emptiness

In The Spleen of Paris, Baudelaire advises the reader to “always be drunk. That’s it: the only question. In order not to feel the horrible burden of Time, breaking your shoulders and bending you toward the earth, you must get drunk without ceasing. But on what? On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. But get drunk.” This work ...

Education in Lebanon: The Struggle of Anxious Parents

David Sahyoun, 02/04 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Lebanon Psychoanalysis Trauma Parents Teachers Culture

Lebanon has been entrenched in a protracted, multifaceted structural crisis, compounded by prolonged security instability, regional conflicts, political tensions and sporadic outbreaks of violence. These factors have fostered an environment of uncertainty and anxiety. The war that erupted in 2023 has layered additional trauma and disruption, ...

Ghosting: A Strategy of Avoidance

David Sahyoun, 26/03 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Ghosting Psychoanalysis Culture Social Media

The anglicisms used to illustrate certain phenomena observed in virtual exchanges have surprising meanings. Far from indicating a mundane behavior, they carry meanings that reveal deeper characteristics about their users. This week, we will try to understand what “ghosting” is, which shares common traits with “breadcrumbing.” The ...

Breadcrumbing: Love in the Age of Digital Manipulation

David Sahyoun, 19/03 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Breadcrumbing Love Psychoanalysis Culture Social Media

The term “breadcrumbing” is a borrowed English expression that arises from contemporary affective relationships, characterized by the virtual nature of exchanges and the immediacy of interactions. Its origin can be traced to the story of Little Thumb, where the protagonist leaves a trail of breadcrumbs to find his way. Much like Perrault's ...

Growing Up Masked: The Psychological Challenges of a Confined Childhood

David Sahyoun, 11/03 10:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

Covid-19 Psychoanalysis Children Traumatism Culture World

The Covid-19 pandemic disrupted societies on an unprecedented scale, deeply altering ingrained customs and daily social interactions. Children, navigating crucial phases of their psychological and identity development, were confronted with a world of masked faces, limited social interactions and new anxieties. For infants, the human face is the ...

Loss as the “Little Death” of the Psyche: An Anatomy of the Narcissistic Wound

David Sahyoun, 19/02 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

Narcissism Loosing Culture Psychoanalysis

Loss, in its psychic dimension, can reveal a fundamental fragility within our being. Whether personal or collective, it does more than disrupt our balance—it can jeopardize our very sense of identity. In these critical moments, to lose becomes synonymous with losing oneself, exposing a profound narcissistic vulnerability. In fact, excessive ...

Deciphering the Ostrich Policy

David Sahyoun, 12/02 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

Psychoanalysis Denial Culture Lebanon Politics

The expression “burying one’s head in the sand” describes a person who refrains from facing reality. While this phrase does not do justice to ostriches at all, in humans, it involves denial, an unconscious defense mechanism. It consists of refusing to acknowledge an unbearable reality, whether external or internal. We all use this mechanism ...

Is Hope Bound to Lead to Disillusionment?

David Sahyoun, 05/02 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

Lebanon Psychoanalysis Culture Hope

Is hope bound to lead to disillusionment? This fundamental question shapes our individual and collective lives, from the intimacy of the psychoanalytic couch to the political upheavals that shake public squares, to the conjugal bedrooms where the dramas of love unfold. Psychoanalysis, through its various theoretical currents, offers valuable ...

To What Extent Can a Leader Make Independent Decisions?

David Sahyoun, 29/01 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Psychoanalysis Leaders Liberty Lebanon Culture

Far from being purely rational actors, leaders—like all human beings—are constantly influenced by unconscious forces that shape their choices, distort their perceptions, and foster illusions of control. The freedom each person believes they possess is, in truth, far more constrained than it appears. Every individual constructs their own ...

Lebanon, a Nation Suffering from Its Leaders

David Sahyoun, 01/01 18:00 - Reading : 7 minute(s)

Psychoanalysis Lebanon Politics Leaders Perversion Narcissisism

Amid the turmoil Lebanon is enduring, the psychological factors at play, which are crucial, are often overlooked. At the root of this profound crisis lies a political class responsible for the current decay, a class whose psychological dysfunctions border on true mental pathologies. Stuck at an infantile stage of development, the men and women in ...

'The Unconscious Is Politically Incorrect, and Sexuality Fundamentally Harassing'

David Sahyoun, 2024-12-25 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

Psychoanalysis Quote Sexuality Culture Unconscious

"The unconscious is politically incorrect, and sexuality fundamentally harassing." This quote by psychoanalyst Jacques André reminds us how psychoanalysis remains a subversive discipline, shedding light on the darkest and most disturbing foundations of the human psyche. Far from complacency or moralizing, it confronts us with the radical ...

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