With the knowledge generated in this field of study, human beings should be able to understand themselves and their situations more thoroughly, as they will be equipped with skills to deal with their vexing situations. In simple terms, this means that this field of study exhorts people to be ...
In the Jewish-Alexandrine Pauline, and Neo-Platonist psychology, the psyche is in general treated as the animating principle in close relation to the body, whereas the pneuma (as representing the divine breath breathed into man), the nous, and the Logos (q.v.) stand for higher entities. ...
“A psychoanalysis consists in speaking freely, in not hushing the ideas that go through your head, like we’re doing right now. Little by little, from within your own words, another meaning forms and surprises you, then falls apart, taking the pain with it. Usually, you discover just ho...
We cannot in every case get so far as this on the simple principle of letting the patient talk; few patients have their psychic material so much on the surface. Furthermore, many persons have a positive resistance against speaking freely about what occurs to them on the spur of the moment...
Turing did not describe any of the materials out of which such a machine would be built. He had little interest in chemistry beyond the physical requirement that a computer store, read and write bits reliably. That is why, amazingly, this simple (albeit infinite) programmable machine is an ...
The central hypothesis of this paper is that the concepts and methods of psychoanalysis can be applied to the study of AI and human/AI interaction. The paper connects three research fields: machine behavior approach, psychoanalysis and anthropology of sc
But these acts of surrogation , in which Finley and the other Liza impersonators take up the burden of pain, are not simple sacrifices. If the audience is invited to project their bad feelings onto the performers’ bodies, it is in the service of getting them to stop dumping their shit ...
The goal is not just the formation of a phenomenology of worldlessness (that would account for the different ways worldlessness appears in the world), but the invention of a genuine phenomenology without a world. To the degree that we still think about worldlessness in terms of a tension ...
Could you put the same concept in less Lacanian terms? I call a ‘symptom’ everything that comes from the real. And the real is everything that isn’t right, does not work, and is opposed to man’s life and his engagement with his personality. The real always returns to ...
The choice to enter Social Work and Psychotherapy were hers, a path to forging her own identity, at a time when even then expectations of women were framed in terms of family and home. She could be sharply critical but with an eye on the benefit of the larger project. She was a woman...