Prof Sam Vaknin
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How Technologies Profit from Your Loneliness, Encourage It
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18:28Now PlayingExistence, self, boundaries emerge from an internalized gaze (being seen). It is a survival strategy experienced as a need. The first defining gaze is the mother’s and is traumatic.
The trauma remains lifelong: others’ gaze evince our unbridgeable separateness (intraversable intersubjective space) and result in existential angst.
Socializing is the cost of others’ defining gaze.
Artificial gaze is cost-free and leads to narcissistic solipsism.
This is because:
Intimacy challenges the business model of social media;
Technological self-sufficiency;
Socializing can be avoided or controlled (e.g., blocking or banning);
Aloneness becomes ego-syntonous owing to the preponderance of negative affect.
Narcissistic solipsism is a combination of fantasy and introjection. It is a rejection of reality and life itself.
Next stage is schizoid-avoidant, an autogaze (self-supply).
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