Repercussões das Redes Sociais na Subjetividade: Narcisismo, Felicidade e Elaboração Psíquica

Abstract

This paper consists of a theoretical essay based on an empirical research that has as one of its aim to analyze the possibility of psychic elaboration of personal conflicts, of mourning and of one’s own issues through interaction and participation in online social networks. From the results obtained in this investigation, this work seeks to conduct a theoretical analysis on the possibility of psychic elaboration as a repercussion of social networks on the subjectivity of users. Considering the empirical evidence of a correlation between the exaltation of narcissistic aspects and the welfare of users in recent researches, the concept of narcissism was cast as the convergence point for a dialogue between the critical perspective of the so-called culture of narcissism, the critique of happiness and the Freudian concept of narcissism and psychic elaboration. The conclusion to which we come is that, although a supposed narcissistic and individualistic happiness is exalted in these networks, the possibility of psychic elaboration by means of the expression in these social networks also emerged as possible repercussions of using these networks on the subjectivity of users.