Entry Date:
January 10, 2003

Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture

Principal Investigator Sherry Turkle


In Spring 2003, the Initiative and the Boston Psychoanalytic Society sponsored four seminars on the theme "Whither Psychoanalysis in Digital Culture? as well as a series of evocative object presentations on this theme. The series addressed such themes as: the impact of email on treatment; the psychology of virtual personae; and new ways of thinking about developmental and characterological change in information environments.