Depersonalization: Standing in the Spaces Between Recognition and Interpellation

The Internet and Its Discontents—or Diamonds are a Girl’s BFF: Commentary on Danielle Knafo’s Paper “Guys and Dolls: Relational Life in the Technological Era”

“…Her faltering reply is very human but also an indictment of Jack's shame. Because Jack's love for her goes unrequited, her reply also iterates the father's command that Jack dissociate from his personal history lest his woman (analyst) shame and depersonalize him (Guralnik & Simeon, 2010). Knafo's "Exactly!"…”

“…Among other things, we activate part objects so that they may morph and evolve (Schafer, 1968) and so that we may make reparation to the splitting of objects we have unwittingly but necessarily divested of qualities in order to name our desire (Khan, 1979). This occurs in a context where available names for our desire often betray who we feel ourselves to be (Salamon, 2010)-leading, in the worst cases, to depersonalization (Guralnik & Simeon, 2010;Hartman, 2010). If anything, the discrepancy between the visual object online and the felt object in body and mind can actively facilitate this necessary rupture and enables the diversification of the object's presentation for potential use giving us more life and making us more human (Corbett, 2013).…”

“…The "branding machine" of normativity (Guralnik & Simeon, 2010) exerts foreclosure on realities that chart a quest beyond the obvious. Psychonalysts' discomfort with the novelties of Internet communication may lead us to premature closures.…”

Reality Bytes: Reply to Commentaries

“…Only, that is, if we engage in an ongoing query of our encounter's discursivity(Guralnik & Simeon, 2010). 9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960.…”

“…Vittorio describes the kind of hybrid self (Harris, 2005) marked by collective experience (Rozmarin, 2010) that, sensing some self-in-itself (Guralnik & Simeon, 2010) I wonder, though, why authenticity must be read on the subject's face? Or in a singular transaction?…”