NOTAS

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC)
Abstract:
The article takes the series Apple Cider Vinegar (Strauss, 2025) as a springboard for analysing the algorithmic culture of well-being and the influence of social media upon individuals in the proliferation of identities. The illusion of a possible detox functions like a hook that promises some purification while offering gadgets and generating new communities that measure their success in terms of consumption. Algorithms produce identifications that block subjective division and promote the mirage of a Self without fissures. From Freud and through Lacan psychoanalysis aims to restore the subject its status, reclaiming truth within its structure of fiction and the body affected by language, irreducible to data and metrics. An ethics of remainder emerges, where one knows that there is no total healing, but rather singular inventions that make room for desire and do not reject the unconscious.
Keywords: Algorithms | Influencers | Body | Jouissance | Gadgets | Language | Identifications | Science | Well-being | Social Media
NOTAS
Volumen 15 | Nº 3
NOVEMBER 2025
November 2025 - February 2025

Etica y Cine (Ethics & Films) is a Peer Reviewed Quarterly Journal Edited by
Department of Psychoanalysis and Department of Deontology, School of Psychology, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
Department of Psychology, Ethics and Human Rights, School of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Center for Medical Ethics (CME), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
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The International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.