ABSTRACT
One of the cutting edge frontiers of intimacy in modern life is the way experience of intimacy is mediated through digital technologies. The authors of this chapter explore psychoanalytic perspectives on past, present and possible futures of technologically mediated simulations of traditional physically co-present relationships (i.e. screen relations) that are becoming ubiquitous. The question addressed is whether new technologically mediated intimacies (sexual and social) are gains or losses, both in ordinary social interactions, as well as in the special situation of a psychotherapeutic or psychoanalytic treatment process. Clinical examples are used to illustrate the arguments.
