The language of the unconscious: Pyschoanalysis and AI | Alenka Zupančič

The language of the unconscious: Pyschoanalysis and AI | Alenka Zupančič

Author: IAI October 7, 2025 Duration: 29:46
Slovenian philosopher Alenka Zupančič sees ChatGPT as a form of our collective unconscious that has absorbed all discourse at the expense of the subject, analysing especially the Right's use of it to clamp down on alternatives.

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