A PSYCHOANALYTIC LOOK AT THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ADOLESCENT’S SELF-IMAGE

Abstract

This article seeks to present an analysis of the constitution of self-image and self-esteem in exposed adolescents and active participants in social networks, from a psychoanalytic perspective. A bibliographical and theoretical review was carried out on the concepts of false self by Donald Winnicott (1896-1971) and Other for Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), which are directed to the period of adolescence in the context of social media, seeking meaning how these we wish to project themselves, and what are their influences on their egoic constitution with regard to their look at themselves. Based on the need for a search that adolescents go through to identify themselves with their peer groups in the midst of a Western capitalist and individualistic society, it is concluded that they aestheticize their self in social networks in order to fit into groups and associations with which he most identifies, placing himself under the vision of the Other and molding his image according to the approval or disapproval of these, constituting, in this way, his self-image.