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dc.contributor.authorMacRury, Iainen_UK
dc.contributor.authorYates, Candidaen_UK
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-13T01:01:19Z-
dc.date.available2019-11-13T01:01:19Z-
dc.date.issued2016en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/30453-
dc.description.abstractThis article proposes that the affective processes that shape our relationship to the world of digital consumption and communication can be illuminated further when viewed through a lens of object relations psychoanalysis. We focus on the use of the mobile phone as both an object in the world and of the psyche in order to reflect upon its uses as an evocative object that shapes the psychosocial boundaries of experience in everyday life. We argue that in contrast to the concepts of interpersonal communication that can be found in some domains of popular culture and in communication studies, object relations psychoanalysis can be usefully deployed in order to explore the unconscious attachments that develop in relation to consumer objects, allowing for the complexity of feeling and reflection that may emerge in relation to them and the potential spaces of the mind. The mobile phone’s routine uses and characteristics are widely understood. At the same time, the mobile phone invites critical reflections that identify a paradoxical object of both creative and pathological use. Such reflexivity includes the mobile’s relationship to the complexity of psychosocial experience within the contemporary cultural moment. Applying the ideas of psychoanalysts Donald Winnicott, Thomas Ogden and Christopher Bollas, we argue that one explanation for why the mobile phone continues to attract not only enthusiastic cultural commentary but also a degree of apprehension across academic and popular-discursive settings can be found in its capacity to both disrupt and connect as an object of attachment and as a means of unconscious escape.en_UK
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.relationMacRury I & Yates C (2016) Framing the mobile phone: The psychopathologies of an everyday object. CM: Communication and Media, 11 (38), pp. 41-70. https://doi.org/10.5937/comman11-11517en_UK
dc.rightsThis article is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-SA - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).en_UK
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/en_UK
dc.subjecttransitional objecten_UK
dc.subjectpotential spaceen_UK
dc.subjectpathologyen_UK
dc.subjectmobile phoneen_UK
dc.subjectobject relations psychoanalysisen_UK
dc.titleFraming the mobile phone: The psychopathologies of an everyday objecten_UK
dc.typeJournal Articleen_UK
dc.identifier.doi10.5937/comman11-11517en_UK
dc.citation.jtitleCM: Communication and Mediaen_UK
dc.citation.issn2466-5452en_UK
dc.citation.issn2466-541Xen_UK
dc.citation.volume11en_UK
dc.citation.issue38en_UK
dc.citation.spage41en_UK
dc.citation.epage70en_UK
dc.citation.publicationstatusPublisheden_UK
dc.citation.peerreviewedRefereeden_UK
dc.type.statusVoR - Version of Recorden_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationBournemouth Universityen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationBournemouth Universityen_UK
dc.identifier.wtid1479664en_UK
dc.date.accepted2016-12-01en_UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2016-12-01en_UK
dc.date.filedepositdate2019-11-12en_UK
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local.rioxx.authorMacRury, Iain|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorYates, Candida|en_UK
local.rioxx.projectInternal Project|University of Stirling|https://isni.org/isni/0000000122484331en_UK
local.rioxx.freetoreaddate2019-11-12en_UK
local.rioxx.licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/|2019-11-12|en_UK
local.rioxx.filenameMacRury and Yates pathologies.pdfen_UK
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