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On the unconscious and AI - by Ludwig Yeetgenstein

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When I first began psychoanalysis, I didn’t really know what psychoanalysis was. I had read a bit of Freud here and there, I enjoyed watching Zizek clips on YouTube, I occasionally listened to psychoanalysis podcasts, and I somehow had many friends who were into Lacan, but none of it ever really sunk in. I wrote a post about my experience after 1 year of psychoanalysis, but rereading that post now, I feel that I had only begun to scratch the surface when I wrote it. Now it’s been over 2 years since I started psychoanalysis. What have I learned? I now finally understand that the main topic of interest in psychoanalysis is the unconscious. What is the unconscious? It’s simple enough to describe: It’s the part of your psyche that operates in the background, it thinks thoughts that you’re not consciously aware of, but that nevertheless assert an influence on your conscious behavior. This simple definition is already controversial and immediately paradoxical: How is it possible to have thou

On the unconscious and AI Ludwig Yeetgenstein Feb 20, 2024 19 6 Share When I first began psychoanalysis, I didn’t really know what psychoanalysis was. I had read a bit of Freud here and there, I enjoyed watching Zizek clips on YouTube, I occasionally listened to psychoanalysis podcasts, and I somehow had many friends who were into Lacan, but none of it ever really sunk in. I wrote a post about my experience after 1 year of psychoanalysis, but rereading that post now, I feel that I had only begun to scratch the surface when I wrote it. Now it’s been over 2 years since I started psychoanalysis.

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