Pashuk 23:54 Aug 16, 2002
��������: The excessive preoccupation with cyberspace relationships often is a preoccupation with the dynamics of one's one psyche. The anonymous text-only communication of chat and e-mail can draw out powerful transference reactions. Although the person may feel the emotional drama is with the other person online, a large portion of the perceived relationship is shaped by unconscious remnants of problematic relationships from the person's past. The love, hate, competition, admiration, dependency, fear, is not simply directed towards the online other. |