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This book examines the crucial role of psychoanalysis in understanding what AI means for us as speaking, sexed subjects. Drawing on Lacanian theory and recent clinical developments it explores what philosophy and critical theory of AI has hitherto neglected: enjoyment. Through the reconceptualization of Intelligence, the Artificial Object and the Sexual Abyss the book outlines the Sexbot as a figure who exists on the boundary of psychoanalysis and AI. Through this figure and the medium of film, the author subverts Kant’s three Enlightenment questions and guides readers to transition from asking 'Does it think?' to 'Can it enjoy?' The book will appeal in particular to students and scholars of psychoanalysis, philosophy, film and media studies, critical theory, feminist theory and AI research.


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​1 IntroductionPart I2 The Stupidity of Intelligence3 The Artificial Object4 The Sexual AbyssPart II5 What Can I Know? Artificial Enjoyment6 What Should I Do? Patipolitics: From Sade to Killian7 What Can I Hope For? Reproduction, Replication, Immortality8 Conclusion: What Is Man? Between Matheme and Anxiety

The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence

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      Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG
      Published 15 April 2022
      ISBN-13 9783030679835
      978-3030679835
      ISBN-10 3030679837
      Also in:
      Analytical and Jungian psychology Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology Sociology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book examines the crucial role of psychoanalysis in understanding what AI means for us as speaking, sexed subjects. Drawing on Lacanian theory and recent clinical developments it explores what philosophy and critical theory of AI has hitherto neglected: enjoyment. Through the reconceptualization of Intelligence, the Artificial Object and the Sexual Abyss the book outlines the Sexbot as a figure who exists on the boundary of psychoanalysis and AI. Through this figure and the medium of film, the author subverts Kant’s three Enlightenment questions and guides readers to transition from asking 'Does it think?' to 'Can it enjoy?' The book will appeal in particular to students and scholars of psychoanalysis, philosophy, film and media studies, critical theory, feminist theory and AI research.


      Table of Contents
      ​1 IntroductionPart I2 The Stupidity of Intelligence3 The Artificial Object4 The Sexual AbyssPart II5 What Can I Know? Artificial Enjoyment6 What Should I Do? Patipolitics: From Sade to Killian7 What Can I Hope For? Reproduction, Replication, Immortality8 Conclusion: What Is Man? Between Matheme and Anxiety

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