When series imagine the (scary) future of work

Perfectly separating private life and personal life, is this the key to happiness as psychologists insist?

The

series acclaimed by critics and the public may convince you otherwise.

Apple TV+'s latest creation is set in the near future.

The employees of Lumon Industries forget all their personal worries there when they cross the doors of their company.

And conversely, no memory remains of their day at the office once they leave.

This splitting of personality, this dissociation ("severance" in English) of the memory is allowed by a chip that the employees agreed to be implanted via a surgical operation.

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The main character Mark made the choice to undergo this operation to "dissociate" his psyche.

Devastated by the death of his wife, the latter knows every day a parenthesis of a few hours at work during which he forgets the pain of his private life and is absorbed in his…

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