David Sahyoun, 26/11 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Psychonalysis Love Bombing Relationships Love Culture
In digital culture as in everyday language, love bombing is quite literally a “bombardment of love.” The term describes a seduction phase in which someone is overwhelmed with attention, declarations, and conspicuous displays of interest (streams of messages, unexpected gifts, sudden plans, sweeping promises). It is less the passion or joyful ...
David Sahyoun, 19/11 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Orbiting Social Media Culture Relationships
Drawing from the evolving grammar of digital interfaces, we encounter the neologism orbiting. It describes the behavior of someone who cuts off all direct contact - no messages, no invitations, no meetings - yet continues to “circle around” you. They watch your stories, like your posts, track your digital movements, and ...
David Sahyoun, 29/10 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Benching Psychoanalysis Culture Relationships
In the new digital dictionary, we are learning to decode, “to bench” means keeping someone on the sidelines, like a player who is sent neither off the field nor fully into the game, but kept warmed up, available, and waiting. Benching is not the radical severing of connection seen in ghosting, nor the deliberate freezing of icing. It ...
David Sahyoun, 22/10 18:00 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Icing Love Culture Relationships
The Anglicism icing, literally “putting on ice,” is not just a lexical novelty born of online platforms. It can also be understood as a technique of connection. It is neither a breakup nor a clear absence, but a controlled freezing. The icer keeps the other in reserve, present yet unavailable. The act consists of responding sporadically, ...