MOREIRA, Jacqueline de Oliveira et al. LOVE AND STALKING: NEW FEATURES FOR SURVEILLANCE IN SOCIAL NETWORKS. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) []. 2017, 23, 1, pp.106-122. ISSN 1677-1168.  https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9523.2016V22N2P447.

The object of this article is the phenomenon of stalking, which consists of permanent surveillance of the beloved one through their posts in virtual social networks. Grounded in psychoanalytic theory, we believe that virtual relationships are marked by the imagery of completeness. Based on the myths of Androgyny and Diotima in Plato’s “The Symposium”, we discuss love, which is characterized by the search for a lost unity in the first myth, and by oscillation and absence in the second. In contemporary times, the measure of the other as the dimension of absence is eclipsed, resulting in consequences for the field of love. Virtual technology fosters the illusion of completeness when it breaks with the distances between the subject, since its users have the opportunity to get in touch with one another at any time and place. The phenomenon of stalking on social networks is facilitated by the logic of how networks work and the possibilities they open to the subjects

: Love relations; Virtual social networks; Stalking; Psychoanalysis.

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