Social media has become the new psyche: a return to Freudian psychoanalysis

Abstract

When psychoanalytic theory was in its first years of formation, the existence of a life linked to a digital world was not in perspective. With the passage of time, technology and social networks have become fundamental elements for the experience of a large number of people worldwide. Disrupting the lifestyles of users and changing the interpretations and explanations of human psychology. This is how, due to the historical and cultural changes of societies, I carried out a restructuring of psychoanalytic theory to, through its concepts, understand the psychic and emotional functioning of contemporary humans. As a result, I have come to the analysis of the occurrence of a change in the shaper of our desires and in the carrier of the human psyche or soul. Social networks are the ones who fulfill this purpose that previously corresponded to the internal structure of each individual.