PEREIRA, Jacqueline Danielle    PARAVIDINI, João Luiz Leitão. The chaotic aspects of the imaginary in contemporary: Social networks and the Nosedive. []. , 34, 2, pp.311-331. ISSN 0103-5665.  https://doi.org/10.33208/PC1980-5438v0034n02A05.

The present article discusses, from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective, the contemporary conditions that cause changes in the statute of the Imaginary register, and inquires about the subject effects that the preponderance of this register over the instance of the Symbolic can open up. It is therefore necessary to reflect on the mirror stage, a constituent part of the Imaginary, covering its novel possible configurations today, in view of the incidence of capitalist and scientific discourse. The mass presence of the internet and its social networks is a factor that contributes to the expansion of the Imaginary's reach as well as to the mutations in specular realization, and furthermore to the return of the subject to a narcissistic position towards himself and the other, making it also necessary to address this issue throughout this work. In order to clarify the discussion, extracts from two episodes of a contemporary science fiction series are provided at the end.

: imaginary; symbolic; contemporary; virtual networks; Black Mirror.

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