SELF-INDUCED MENTAL VIOLATIONS IN AGE OF GLOBAL INTERNET-COMMUNICATION. MEDICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECT

Abstract

The aim is a conceptual analysis of the theoretical and methodological aspects of mental abnormality narratives in the global discourse of the Internet-space. The narrative of the “Tulpa” phenomenon is a sign for children's games with the participation of an imaginary friend. The psychiatric clinic sees such “dreams in reality” in the delirium of imagination, its plot is in the syndrome of delusional fantasies. The very concept of an isolated part of the “host” personality so clearly corresponds to both hysterical dissociation and the “schisis” according to E. Bleuler.