ABSTRACT:
Body and identity: individual and collective psychopathology issues. This paper deals with the relationship to the body and the issue of identity in the contemporary subject. The multiple virtual operators that identify this subject nowadays and the continuous flow of messages and information forwarded to this same subject are considered hereThe anguish resulting from this process to the modern subject is emphasized. How the main ideals of identity and its subjective effects are raised in this context is also discussed. As a conclusion, the question of how psychoanalysis can approach the issue of otherness from this point is mentioned.
Keywords:
Body; identity; object; information; collective psychology