Jacques Lacan

psychoanalyst · 18 mentions across 4 readings

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Lacan's psychoanalytic theory of the subject—particularly his insight that the unified body we perceive in the mirror is a captivating lure that obscures the speaking subject's fundamentally fragmented, ex-centric nature—provides critical vocabulary for this seminar's examination of how AI systems and digital interfaces construct false coherence. His work enables readings that question whether machine learning models, like human subjects, are similarly decentered and divided beneath their apparent unified outputs, and how visual/technological interfaces might function as contemporary "mirrors" that seduce us into misrecognizing both ourselves and artificial systems. The presence of a dedicated Palgrave Lacan Series on AI psychoanalysis signals that Lacanian theory has become foundational to theorizing AI not just as technical systems but as sites where subjectivity, desire, and symbolic order intersect.

Mentioned in 4 readings

Isabel Millar

from The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence

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Ben Woodard

from Slime Dynamics

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Claire Colebrook

A Globe of One’s Own, In Praise of the Flat Earth

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It was the great contribution of Lacanian psychoanalysis to point out that the visual figural unity of the human body—the bounded organism we see in the mirror—serves as a captivating lure that precludes us from confronting that ex-centric …

Jean Baudrillard

The Evil Demon of Images

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distinctive opposition between signifier and signified and between sign and referent, etc., from the very first point of departure what semiology tries to do is to domesticate the sign. By comparison, in the world which I evoke, the one whe…

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