www.inter-actions.biz/ispso The Cyber System in the Mind

60 million cite the internet as important* 50% of online 12 – 17 use social sites* 33% use Wikipedia* Most single people use the web to find a life partner* *Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project

60 million cite the internet as important*

50% of online 12 – 17 use social sites*

33% use Wikipedia*

Most single people use the web to find a life partner*

*Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project

My experience Chat rooms forums listserves 2003 personal blog 2006 business blog How to talk about the work? Where to talk about the work? Isolation of practice

Chat rooms forums listserves

2003 personal blog

2006 business blog

How to talk about the work?

Where to talk about the work?

Isolation of practice

Dialogue not monologue Feedback Curated space Multi-platform Multi-media Communities of interest Reputation systems – links etc Distribution/sharing knowledge Characteristics of Web 2.0

Dialogue not monologue

Feedback

Curated space

Multi-platform

Multi-media

Communities of interest

Reputation systems – links etc

Distribution/sharing knowledge

IBM, Harvard University, University College Dublin, Levis, Sony, American Apparel, Sweden

US$ Spent by Users (in Millions)

Does it matter? This is how life is organised & experienced for many people under 35 New business & organisational models are being created in response

This is how life is organised & experienced for many people under 35

New business & organisational models are being created in response

Jay Parkinson MD

“ America loves its solitary geniuses—its Einsteins, its Edisons, its Jobses—but those lonely dreamers may have to learn to play with others. Car companies are running open design contests. Reuters is carrying blog postings alongside its regular news feed. Microsoft is working overtime to fend off user-created Linux. We're looking at an explosion of productivity and innovation, and it's just getting started, as millions of minds that would otherwise have drowned in obscurity get backhauled into the global intellectual economy.”

“ America loves its solitary geniuses—its Einsteins, its Edisons, its Jobses—but those lonely dreamers may have to learn to play with others. Car companies are running open design contests. Reuters is carrying blog postings alongside its regular news feed. Microsoft is working overtime to fend off user-created Linux. We're looking at an explosion of productivity and innovation, and it's just getting started, as millions of minds that would otherwise have drowned in obscurity get backhauled into the global intellectual economy.”

Genuine talent goes unnourished User generated nonsense Poker Pornography Identity theft

Sex, violence & generosity Regression Collective unconscious? Persecution, flame attacks, sexual gratification Casual – first name basis Talking to a stranger ‘ just ask’

Regression

Collective unconscious?

Persecution, flame attacks, sexual gratification

Casual – first name basis

Talking to a stranger

‘ just ask’

Consultancy Technology as friend, parent, lover & child ‘ If I lost my computer I’d feel like a limb had been chopped off’ iPhone envy ‘ Let’s Google it’ ‘ People like me’ Boundary management 24/7 availability managing un/real people time & territory Phallic phone

Technology as friend, parent, lover & child

‘ If I lost my computer I’d feel like a limb had been chopped off’

iPhone envy

‘ Let’s Google it’

‘ People like me’

Boundary management

24/7 availability

managing un/real people

time & territory

Phallic phone

Idealisation & Disappointment Attack & Ambivalence Negative comments ‘ the work should speak for itself Early negative transference/counter transference Visible & enacted splits Self reflection & integration

Idealisation & Disappointment

Attack & Ambivalence

Negative comments

‘ the work should speak for itself

Early negative transference/counter transference

Visible & enacted splits

Self reflection & integration

Where are the psychodynamic practitioners?

Reasons? Client confidentiality Talking about the work means breaking contract Anxiety around ‘publishing’ Publishing online prevents publishing offline Managing professional identity What would my clients/colleagues think? Competence/Incompetence Idealised & Authorised spaces

Client confidentiality

Talking about the work means breaking contract

Anxiety around ‘publishing’

Publishing online prevents publishing offline

Managing professional identity

What would my clients/colleagues think?

Competence/Incompetence

Idealised & Authorised spaces

Case study ispso 2.0

Hypotheses Anxiety about succession in psychoanalysis - the new replacing the old The cyber system in the mind is not a virtual but a hyper-real place – a place of regression - where incestuous desire is potentially realisable. Silence of psychoanalytic practitioners in cyber space is a defence against the potential murder/death of psychoanalysis from the oedipal attack of the new.

Anxiety about succession in psychoanalysis - the new replacing the old

The cyber system in the mind is not a virtual but a hyper-real place – a place of regression - where incestuous desire is potentially realisable.

Silence of psychoanalytic practitioners in cyber space is a defence against the potential murder/death of psychoanalysis from the oedipal attack of the new.

paradox Creating & telling stories in cyberspace places us on an equal footing with everyone else – we become ‘ordinary’ potentially divested of authority and status – it’s easier to talk to ourselves yet The future of a psychoanalytic approach to organising and organisations may rest in how ‘ordinary’ it becomes

Creating & telling stories in cyberspace places us on an equal footing with everyone else – we become ‘ordinary’ potentially divested of authority and status – it’s easier to talk to ourselves

yet

The future of a psychoanalytic approach to organising and organisations may rest in how ‘ordinary’ it becomes

Web 2.0 image from http://www.railsonwave.com

Web 2.0 image from

http://www.railsonwave.com