The power of ghosts: Psychic awakening in the virtual world

Before we can assess the impact of the digital revolution on our conception of psychic work, the author argues, we need to understand how the new spatiooral coordinates instituted by the Digital Revolution demand a revisioning of our conceptions of objectivity, subjectivity, and intersubjectivity. The melancholic dimension and the narcissistic regression involved in the virtual must, therefore, be reconceived if we are to recognize the transfiguring power of the virtual phenomenon.