ABSTRACT
In the ‘sine-substantia’ reality, subjects may create numerous ‘variants of their self’, which simultaneously interact with many other individuals (other variants), without the limits imposed from the body on distinctive personification. ‘Interactive identities are consciously constructed and jettisoned into cyberspace; these identities can be shaped to allow any fantasied aspect of the self to come alive’. While Suler emphasized the need to integrate the split parts of the self experienced online as separate from the rest of the offline life. Lemma expanded her reflections on the incorporeal nature of online relationships and suggested that the analysts should better focus on their patients’ experience with the new technologies, since they may also serve a psychological development purpose and are not necessarily synonymous with psychopathology. The psychotherapist needs to work with time and space, extending the limited temporospatial dynamics of the patients beyond their body and the cyberworld to the real world.
