ABSTRACT
Technology offers a way of extending the resource of psychoanalysis to those patients who choose teleanalysis because of their circumstances in the modern world. Socio-cultural changes pull us farther and farther away from the type of patients described and treated by Freud in the twentieth century, a time of sexual repression, protected personal privacy, and identity under worldwide threat of death from persecution and war. Education, professional conferences, business meetings, loving encounters, and casual sex can all happen in cyberspace. In teleanalysis, the screen-to-screen connection at the boundary of this new analytic frame is particularly suited to convey by projection into cyberspace the experience of emptiness and loneliness with the primary object. In teleanalysis, there lies an opportunity for the patient to discover the object in the potential space of the online environment. “The potential space is at the interplay between there being nothing but the author and there being objects and phenomena outside omnipotent control”.
