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Psychoanalysis for the Virtual Reality (2025)

Tolga Theo Yalur

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Psychoanalysis is always targeted in theory with armchair theorizing. A very distorted sense of the phenomena from the armchair introspection and speculation and almost-limited theorizing in behavioral psychologies and even in psychoanalysis invests itself in human experiential stances instead of objective observation. To construct a theory based upon these phenomena, however, there’s too much data. What psychoanalysts do is to demonstrate to the people, through self-experiments, how simple it is to misunderstand what is actually in their consciousness and in their first-person data. What’s remarkable about consciousness is that it is not continuous. There are countless voids in the information of consciousness, some of which work in the psychoanalytic experience of diagnosing symptoms in first- person data, the beliefs about the experiences to which individuals have exclusive access. Its discontinuity, the voids and the holes are limited to these beliefs. For the fact that language works discursively, humans may renounce their privileged access to these experiences and shift their focus from what they believe to what actually is the case. In the end, there will be a scientific narrative in which the conscious self will not be a character. A living body, a living brain, and everything else is all that exists. The first-person narrative would be extracted from that third-person account. The conscious self never exists in any other sense. Thinking that it would exist is the illusion.
typeresearch exposition
keywordspsychoanalysis, virtual reality, Discourse
date01/12/2021
published27/02/2025
last modified27/02/2025
statuspublished
share statusprivate
copyrightTolga Theo Yalur
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3451399/3451398
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.3451399
published inResearch Catalogue


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