O mal-estar na cultura contemporânea: internet, sintomas e perversão

Abstract

Over the last three decades, the subject increasingly finds himself in another field of expression of his own suffering, and through the New Information and Communication Technologies (NITCs) true mutations linked to his relationship with his pathos emerge. Through a psychoanalytic perspective, what Freud conceptualizes as “Civilization Discontents” will help us understand the movements that subjectivity has taken to regulate itself in contemporary society. In that regard, this monograph has the aim to analyze how NITCs and the internet as a social phenomenon have influenced the subjectivity of contemporary subjects in the shaping of a singularity in its symptoms. The specificities of the Malaise of hyperconnected cultures may have founded a new “psychic economy” typical of contemporary subjects, who arrive at the clinic with new symptoms and presenting ways of seeing the world involved in a More-of-Enjoyment, operated in the dimension of consumption, from the perspective of the ideal of a neoliberal subject, aligned with a perverse enjoyment and demonstrated in the political, cultural and historical behavior of the subjects. It is concluded that in fact, the subject who arrives at the clinic today is crossed by several issues, which differentiate him from the subject of the 20th century.