With Ben Kafka, Leora Trub, Christian Thorne
Moderation: Hannah Schmitt
Roundtable III of the series "Rooted & Displaced: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Meaning of Place"
A collaboration of the Freud Foundation US, the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center, and the Sigmund Freud Museum
Saturday, May 9, 4:30 PM
Dislocated Presences: Technology, the Psyche, and the Meaning of Virtual Space
The final roundtable examines how digital technologies are reshaping psychic life within the context of place and its disembodied absence. What becomes of presence, intimacy, and therapeutic containment in virtual space? Panelists will consider how teletherapy, online rituals, and screen-mediated relationships challenge and extend traditional psychoanalytic concepts, including transitional space, the container-contained, and the skin ego.
This session offers a space for reflection on disembodiment, connection, and the symbolic potential of virtual environments—inviting new ways of thinking about psychic life in the digital age.
The discussion is taking place at Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA and via Zoom.
