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Dislocated Presences: Technology, the Psyche, and the Meaning of Virtual Space
May 9, 2026 at 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM Eastern
FREE
This roundtable (with in-person and virtual attendance options) examines how digital technologies are reshaping psychic life within the context of place and its disembodied absence.
In-person (at the Austen Riggs Center) and virtual attendance options. Click the register link for more information.
Featuring:
- Ben Kafka, PhD
- Leora Trub, PhD
- Christian Thorne, PhD
- Hannah Schmitt, PsyD (Moderator)
The final roundtable examines how digital technologies are reshaping psychic life within the context of place and its disembodied absence. What becomes of presence, intimacy, and therapeutic containment in virtual space? Panelists will consider how teletherapy, online rituals, and screen-mediated relationships challenge and extend traditional psychoanalytic concepts, including transitional space, the container-contained, and the skin ego.
This session offers a space for reflection on disembodiment, connection, and the symbolic potential of virtual environments—inviting new ways of thinking about psychic life in the digital age.
This session offers a space for reflection on disembodiment, connection, and the symbolic potential of virtual environments—inviting new ways of thinking about psychic life in the digital age.
This roundtable is also part of "Rooted & Displaced: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Meaning of Place. An International Roundtable Series", a collaboration between the Sigmund Freud Museum, the Freud Foundation US and the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center.