VIRTUAL LOVE ANO PARALLEL UNIVERSES

Abstract

We have seen, today, many researches focusing how the computing advances can interfere inside the personal relationships. lf, in one hand, we have the benefits from the endless possibilities of access and contact with uothers worlds", in the other hand, we are facing our new behaviour over these uothers worlds". ln arder to illustrate that idea, we have a clinicai report in which the patient, a young lady, twenty seven years o/d, married for eight years, has been living for about one year a "virtual relationship", by internet. This process has been absorbing her completely. She feels very far from her husband, since she is isolated in her parailel world, in which she has a new identity related to ail leveis. That new identity is entirely the opposite from her real life. The impossibility to feel accomplished either in her everyday life or in her virtual parailel universe broke out a severe process of depression. That clinic example leaded us to discuss the following aspects: (1) virtual experiences by internet and the parailel universes that was mentioned by Hugh Everett, a North American physicist; (2) the question of temale ethics; (3) the group experiences that was mobilized by that patient.