O Mal-estar Contemporâneo e a sua Relação com as Novas Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação (NTIC)

Abstract

The New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT) appear as an alternative to the traditional means of data management. With the advent of integrated devices - smartphones - and network communication - Internet - the human being is faced with new existential possibilities. In contrast, human suffering finds another field of expression and new pathologies arise regarding the use of these objects. The objective of this work was to review a brief history of the development of the NICT to interrogate the constitution of the current subjects in locution to contemporary culture and malaise. The method used was the psychoanalytic, that is, interpretative. From this, the Internet was listed as a contemporary symptom, because it keeps the essence of its time at its core. However, the current culture and all of its symbolic constructions are understood as ineffective in providing a contour for human existence. This is due to a precarious and mortifying society towards its citizens, where it spreads jouissance and submission, causing a state of insufficiency and symbolic bankruptcy. All of this scenario unfolds considering the labor relations and the coercive power of the Capital. Therefore, returning to Freud and Lacan, there is the symptom as the singularity and force of the subject. In addition, the conclusion brings alternatives for coping with situations of helplessness and the use of the drive concept to cover human investments in relation to NICT. In this way, finding the new technologies as vectors of the subjects jouissance and one of the peculiarities of the contemporary malaise.