ABSTRACT
From prenatal (sonogram) to deathbed (doctors’ digital devices) we are looked at through a lens rather than directly. From the mother’s iPhone camera sending texts of her baby’s birth, to the baby monitor, to iPads used for toilet training, and phones used to find dates, a lens is present. All through the lifespan we are looking through and being seen through a lens, e-mailing, texting, watching videos, using iPads, etc. What are the implications for psychoanalytic treatment? Will it become an alien space of two people actually talking to one another without distraction? Will the privacy of the analytic space be alien to those whose every movement is put out to the world on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter? Will it be alien to those who only know of others’ lives seemingly so happy and filled with fun, images clearly managed to create “Facebook envy”?
