Twitter and the Social Unconscious: how tweets and blogs go far beyond the individual

The distinction between what is conscious and what is unconscious is a familiar one – Freud gave us the image of...

The Bus Monitor, the Bullies, and Twitter: what does it all mean?

The most recent storm to sweep across social media is most certainly the heartbreaking YouTube video of 68 year old bus...

Prometheus: the primal father and his horde

Warning:This is a psychoanalytic analysis and review of the film and contains spoilers. Best if read after you’ve seen it! Ridley...

Alien: A Kleinian (Psycho)Analysis

In anticipation of watching Ridley Scott’s new film Prometheus, I thought it was time to go back to Scott’s original film...

Twitter and your ego: re-tweets, mentions, and Klout scores

What really motivates people to tweet? What do you get out of it? There are a series of conscious reasons why you might tweet. Perhaps...

The relationship between personality and Facebook use

There are currently a lot of headlines telling us that Facebook is making us narcissistic, or that social networking really is...