It is In other words, all predisposition is generated in the early years of childhood through experiences and the experiences derived from them and, in general, are inscribed in the psyche at an unconscious level; from where they exert powerful effects that are not recognized by the person as coming from his psychic interiority.
On many occasions the subject feels a certain discomfort that cannot be explained. In this sense, when people consume negative news or attraction to that news, one of the reasons is because it enables them to rationally justify mood states of discomfort. In other words, it is an attempt to explain their own discomfort, fear or anguish.
Many times we hear that some individuals say that their suffering, impossibility or fear will give way when this or that situation changes; the fact is that when the aforementioned situation changes, tranquility does not come and another argument is “used” to justify it. It is a way of considering that what is bad is outside, in the environment and not in the interiority of the psyche. The result: the feeling of discomfort, anguish and other negative affects is eternalized.
The pandemic functioned as a stressogenic factor that generated different defensive modalities against danger that manifested themselves in the form of symptoms. He intensified the idea of an outside and dangerous peers to beware of and that led to a confinement, real and concrete on the one hand and symbolic on the other; the latter preventing the subject from wondering what was really affecting him. This gives rise to nightmares, allusive dreams, avoidance attitudes and tendencies to repeat unconscious situations, in addition to passing from active to passive attitudes. In this way, the lack of answers to the malaise that seizes continues, since the substitution of internal causes (true determinants) for external ones is not enough to resolve it adequately and efficiently.
The attraction to negative news could be assimilated to an addiction, this term etymologically means without words, in this sense if someone were to ask why and for what? I spend most of my time consuming news of a negative nature and cannot give a satisfactory answer, you must consider that you are facing a symptom that you must resolve by introspection; if you can’t, it’s time you should consult a professional to help you get an answer that will solve the addiction.
If we take into account that electronic devices favor contact with the outside in a virtual way and that they make it possible to instantly be aware of what is happening anywhere on the planet, we must understand that they grant the subject a certain degree of omnipotence to have everything they are looking for “at hand” from the intimacy of their cabin and screen.
In addition, it is a system of contact with the world that leads to a mock action (press keys, mouse, go through programs, etc.) but interferes with the subject’s reflection and relationship with the reviewed or traveled situations. That is to say, they impose a rhythm of “everything now” that leads the subjects to be immersed in a functioning of little tolerance for waiting which, to extremes, we can compare to the starving baby who cannot wait for the arrival of the teat or the feeding bottle. This, in my opinion, is related to the
If we understand domscrolling as an attempt to find answers to the incomprehensible in the subject, it can be understood as a defense against the disturbing sensations generated by the intimate unknown; if this is related to the fear of missing something, they will undoubtedly be linked to the feeling of loss; in the case of the attraction to negative news, losing the possibility of the substitutive argumentation that defends what breaks out from within the psyche.
Any loss is always, at least, an inconvenience for people, and is followed by attempts to recover what was lost, that is, add the subject to a psychic work of some importance.
In the event that what is lost generates strong feelings of anguish, what is lost from the psychoanalytic point of view goes into the background and it becomes important to know what the subject affected by a loss feels about himself. which would lead to asking What will it mean for each subject to miss some negative information? The answer lies in each individual case.
Psychoanalyst (MN 3.023) Full member of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, the International Psychoanalytic Association and FEPAL, the International Forum of Teachers of the International Bioethics Network and the Board of Directors of the Ibero-American Ecobioethics Network.
Source: Ambito
