Psychoanalytic review of the trolling culture regarding female body

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Krittika Sinha
Mirza Sarwar Baig
Huma Fatima

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Internet trolls are people who use their anonymity to persistently, and many times with malafide intentions, promote and share things on some internet platforms, boards, and forums. With the advent of time, the trolling has become a medium for asking and doing sexual advances in the realm of the social media making the victim disgust be saying obscene comments or asking for nude pictures or by sending the nude pictures for any sexual advances from the victim in the form of the projection. The reaction to their action is the gate to redemption in their eyes. The certain kind of offline identities of anonymous individuals trolls is unknowable as are their
true feelings. One can say that the feeling of guilt that is not being sublimated or used creatively may cause aggressive behavior towards the world outside. Anonymity increases the incidents of the trolling leading to the veracity of the attack more powerful. The internet is becoming a medium to invest our insecurities although it is a destructive practice.

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Psychoanalytic review of the trolling culture regarding female body. (2020). Indian Journal of Health, Sexuality and Culture, 6(01). https://ijhsc.info/index.php/ijhsc/article/view/112