Hatred in the Digital Age : Fear of Self-destruction and Imaginary Sealing

This article shows that hatred is performed in the imaginary sealing of the fragmented bodily self, by analyzing Sigmund Freud's concept “das Unheimliche (the uncanny)”, Julia Kristeva's concept “abject” and Jacques Lacan's theory of “mirror stage”. To this end, this article first analyses the Freud's psychoanalysis and the Kristeva's theory of language and argue that hatred is closely linked to the uncanny fear of confronting abjects that remind us our death. And through the urban theory of Edward Soja and Celeste Oralquiaga, it is argued that the digital urbanization in postmetropolis which constitutes in de-territorialization and hybridization tends to trigger a mental breakdown surrounded by the fear of self-destruction. Finally, I insist with Lacan that some digital citizens respond to this fear by imaginatively sealing their fragmented egos through integrated ego images in the digital mirror. In this imaginary sealing are the fragmented egos excluded and the abjects hated.