At a time when the search for ‘followers’ is preferred to the love of an other with its own characteristics, when the new love order can be represented by the word l@ve as a brilliant metaphor for the integration of digital culture with feelings, we are faced with the fascinating task of exploring and understanding the revolutionary phenomenon that we encounter. This is what Martina Burdet undertakes in this book, taking her reader on a journey through her reflections.
The reader will soon discover that they have in their hands lies an original and timely book: two rare and indisputably engaging characteristics.
The topicality of the subject matter is evident in the title: Love in the Time of the Internet. This book’s originality stems not only from the subject under discussion –generally neglected by psychoanalysts – but also from its method, which involves a detailed, in-depth study of the problem and its implications through what the author refers to as ‘Ordinary Stories’; that is, clinical vignettes: stories of patients who describe how they can – or actually, how they cannot – love in the time of the Internet. As they cannot love, they turn to a psychoanalyst, since in this case the problem cannot be solved by a data scientist.
This is a book which deserves to be read for the great interest of its topical issues and examples.
Jorge Canestri, President of the European Psychoanalytical Federation
Martina Burdet is a psychoanalyst, Training Analyst of the Psychoanalytic Association of Madrid (APM), member of the Psychoanalytic Society of Paris (SPP), and full member of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA).
FOREWORD
1. ORDINARY STORIES
2. INTRODUCTION
3. THE INTERNET ERA AND LOVE: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE PSYCHIC AND THE SOCIAL
4. TO EXIST FIRST: THE CASE OF DANIELLA AND THE PIANO TEACHER
5. OVERAROUSAL AND TRAUMA
6. THE OTHER WITHOUT QUALITY
7. THE GADGET AS LOVE OBJECT
8. SELF-PROCREATION: BE SEEN OR DIE
9. THE REALM OF THE HERE AND NOW
10. CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS