Sigmund Freud

psychoanalyst · 10 mentions across 6 readings

In this course

Freud appears here only obliquely, referenced through the course's engagement with psychoanalytic frameworks for understanding desire, the unconscious, and what remains opaque to rational consciousness. His model of the psyche as a site of competing drives and repressed knowledge inflects discussions of how artificial systems might harbor emergent or "dark" processes that exceed their designers' comprehension, much as the unconscious exceeds the ego's understanding. While not foregrounded in these particular excerpts, Freud's legacy shapes how the seminar theorizes agency and intelligibility in both human and machinic systems.

Background

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies arising from conflicts in the psyche through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.

Mentioned in 6 readings

Ben Woodard

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China Mieville

On Social Sadism - Salvage

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Every person’s name is legion. Among our components are those we don’t want, and/or want not to want, and/or surrendered to which society itself couldn’t survive. A modicum of repression, then, is a necessity for social life. Herbert Marcus…Thus the poisonous imbrication. Sympathy for the suffering of the ruled, as acknowledgement of ruling-class shame, as justification for brutality, as tactic for repression. To the extent that it is successful in normalising social sadism, …

David Roden

Subtractive-Catastrophic Xenophilia

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[^17]: See ibid., 338-9; Olivia Lucca Fraser, “Nothingness and Event” (unpublished manuscript), Academia (2009), https://www.academia.edu/858888/NothingnessandEvent. Meillassoux argues, along similar lines, that the absolute represented by …

I.J. Good

Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine

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by another consciousness-provoking assembly for a short time. In that case, the assembly A might recover from fatigue and be reactivated by the subassemblies that it itself had left in its wake when it last fired. This would account for the…

Jean Baudrillard

The evil demon of images, 1987

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is really just a product of the power of thought itself, which is itself totally anti-rational and anti-materialist. This is completely opposed to Descartes (whose rationalism leads eventually but directly to materialism). For me to invoke …

Matt Colquhoun

Acid Communism

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Barbon, Nicholas. 1696. A Discourse Concerning Coining the New Money Lighter. In Answer to Mr. Locke's Considerations, &c, London. Deleuze, Gilles. 2006. “Four Propositions on Psychoanalysis” in Two Regimes of Madness: Texts & Interviews 1…