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-Double Consciousness
Friday, October 16, 2009
Facebook and Freud...and Me
This morning when I got up, I fought the urge to log on to my facebook account and check out what had transpired during my night's slumber. Instead, I blogged.....and commented on the blogs of others....and customized my blog page......and blogged some more. I didn't see a problem with this; after all, I was doing my homewok, right? Wrong! What I was doing was a classic case of what Freud titled transference: The time that I would normally have spent on the computer, on facebook was now being allotted to or transferred to customizing my blog. I simply found another way to use technology to express myself and keep me connected to others with whom I share a common interest. Social networking has embedded itself into the fabric of my life and into how I choose to relate to myself and others. With that being said, the question I find myself asking at this juncture in the media deprivation experiment is: Is this aforementioned "embedding" a positive or a negative thing? Excuse me while I ponder....
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I realized this also! I actually had to laugh at myself that I found more ways to procrastinate doing my other homework. AGHHHH this reliance on my computer in general needs to end!
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ReplyDeleteI love your comment about transference. it will be interesting to see what everyone else has done that could be looked at the same way. ( Your children are adorable.)
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