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May 30, 2016The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

Avatars of desire and the question of presence: Virtual and transitional spaces meet their liminal edge – From Pygmalion to Spike Jonze's Her, and beyond&

Alfred S. Margulies

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There is a poignant strangeness to Spike Jonze's movie Her (2013); we resonate with the characters' clumsiness in trying to reach one another, each an avatar to the other's desire. The movie is an ...

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6ac481f91039836016c18886 https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-8315.12528

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