Proper name: the screen as a (un) tie of the symptoms

Abstract

The present work sought to understand the relationship between proper name, body, and virtuality from a psychoanalytical perspective in order to analyze the crossings of self-naming in cyberspace through the authorial words of Cielo Latini. In order to achieve this objective, freudian and lacanian works –first teaching- were taken up again, as were authors who approached this theme under the theory of these two great psychoanalysts. Furthermore, the autobiographical work Abzurdah (2006), by the argentine author Cielo Latini, was given as the object of study, considering that the theoretical points were discussed from such narrative. Thus, through document analysis, it was possible to investigate how Cielo uses the virtual environment to remain in a position of jouissance, considering that the names chosen for its users referred to their symptoms. It was still possible to perceive the protagonist’s constant attempt to occupy the place of ideal for the Other, which, in her childhood, was occupied by her mother and, already in adolescence, by the Other sex, Alejandro. The purpose of this article is not to exhaust the subject’s discussions, but rather to provide a critical opening on the theoretical crossings concerning the published case’s absurd life.