02800    a2200361   4500001001100000005001700011008003900028020001800067037003600085040000700121041000800128072001600136072001600152072001600168072001400184072001400198072001300212072001400225072001100239072002100250072002100271072002100292072002100313100002100334245007800355250000600433260003200439300001000471520189600481700002102377700002502398999001502423178220633720250317100412.0250312042018GB                   eng    a9781782206330  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 37.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aJMAF2thema7 aJBCT2thema7 aMKMT2thema7 aNH2thema7 aJMAF2bic7 aJFD2bic7 aMMJT2bic7 aH2bic7 aPSY0000002bisac7 aPSY0260002bisac7 aPSY0360002bisac7 a791.436532bisac1 aAndrea Sabbadini10aPsychoanalytic Perspectives on Virtual Intimacy and Communication in Film  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20180822  a214 p  bPsychoanalytic Perspectives on Virtual Intimacy and Communication in Film brings together a group of psychoanalysts to explore, through film, the new forms of communication, mainly the internet, that enter more and more frequently into the affective lives of people, their intimacy and even the analytic room. The contributors, all practising psychoanalysts, analyse the potential and surprising transformations that human relationships, including psychoanalysis, are undergoing. At present, it is difficult to value the future importance and predict the possible disquieting consequences of the use and abuse of the new technologies; we run the risk of finding ourselves unprepared to face this revolutionary transformation in human connections and affects. Will it be possible in a near future that human beings prefer to fall in love with a machine gifted with a persuasive voice instead of a psychoanalyst 'in person'? The contributors explore the idea that virtual intimacy could begin to replace real life, in sentimental and psychoanalytic relationships. Imagination and fantasy may be strengthened and may ultimately prevail over the body, excluding it entirely. Can the voice of the analyst, sometimes transmitted only by telephone or computer, produce a good enough analytic process as if it were in-person, or will it help to foster a process of idealisation and progressive alienation from real life and connections with other human beings? The film Her (2013), alongside others, offers a wonderful script for discussing this matter, because of the deep and thoughtful examination of love and relationships in the contemporary world that it provides. Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Virtual Intimacy and Communication in Film will be of great interest to all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists interested in the ongoing impact of technology on human relationships.1 aIlany Kogan4B011 aPaola Golinelli4B01  c2474d2474