Dislocated Presences: Technology, the Psyche, and the Meaning of Virtual Space

Sat May 09 2026 at 10:30 am to 12:00 pm UTC-04:00

25 Main St, Stockbridge, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01262 | Stockbridge

Austen Riggs Center
Publisher/HostAusten Riggs Center
Dislocated Presences: Technology, the Psyche, and the Meaning of Virtual Space
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This roundtable (with in-person and virtual attendance options) examines how digital technologies are reshaping psychic life within the context of place and its disembodied absence.
Featuring:
Ben Kafka, PhD
Leora Trub, PhD
Christian Thorne, PhD
Hannah Schmitt, PsyD (Moderator)
The final roundtable examines how digital technologies are reshaping psychic life within the context of place and its disembodied absence. What becomes of presence, intimacy, and therapeutic containment in virtual space? Panelists will consider how teletherapy, online rituals, and screen-mediated relationships challenge and extend traditional psychoanalytic concepts, including transitional space, the container-contained, and the skin ego.
This session offers a space for reflection on disembodiment, connection, and the symbolic potential of virtual environments—inviting new ways of thinking about psychic life in the digital age.
This roundtable is also part of "Rooted & Displaced: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Meaning of Place. An International Roundtable Series", a collaboration between the Sigmund Freud Museum, the Freud Foundation US and the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center.
Learn more and register at https://www.austenriggs.org/events/dislocated-presences-technology-the-psyche-and-the-meaning-of-virtual-space.
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