The human child is born with the task of psychological birth which is the way from total dependency to individuation following separation from mother. The feeding, nurturing and providing mother loses these features with the development of the child and the child has to change and convert this internal representation of the good mother. However, the endless need for gratification leads the child to follow the steps of that heavenly relationship. Separation from the good object, to mourn for it and substituting the loss in healthy ways, are challenging tasks of development. Developing technologies also produce new pleasure and control objects to keep us from facing the loss of the mother.
We investigate childhood conflicts in adolescence in computer addiction. Through addictive rituals the adolescent denies the ending of that omnipotent relation established in the past with the mother and attempts to cope with the unconscious anxiety of separation-individuation by using computer games. The addictive adolescent is searching for the heritage of that nurturing, gratifying, accepting relationship. In our study, we investigate the damage to the psychological world of an adolescent caused by the defense chosen against independency in adolescence rather than the effects of addiction.
As the adolescent sits in front of computer for hours avoiding daily routines and performs uncountable murders every day (like KNIGHT game), he keeps a distance to any object relation, is saved from relational anxieties of the real world and actively avoids these anxieties with the shield of a mastering government over his soldiers.