Cybermourning: Grief in Flux From Object Loss to Collective Immortality.
This essay examines features of cyberreality that are reconfiguring loss and mourning. In turn, it queries a transformation in the nature of object loss that is taking place on the Internet. As we move from a reality based on the acceptance of loss and limit to one of infinite access, concrete losse...
| Publicado en: | Psychoanalytic Inquiry Vol. 32; no. 5; pp. 454 - 468 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep/Oct2012
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