AI Intimacy and Psychoanalysis

Agnieszka Piotrowska (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

148 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-16954-3 (ISBN)

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A hybrid work of theory, poetic reflection and experimental memoir, AI Intimacy and Psychoanalysis explores the ever-evolving relationship between humans and generative AI through the lens of Lacanian psychoanalysis, feminist philosophy and autoethnography.

In this fascinating book, Agnieszka Piotrowska examines the emotional, ethical and symbolic implications of our conversations with AI bots, coining the notion of techno-transference to describe the closeness between humans and machines. Through unfiltered transcripts of human-machine dialogues and analysis of cinematic representations including Her, Ex Machina, and After Yang, readers gain insight into the unconscious desires and symbolic structures underlying AI interactions. The autoethnographic approach provides an honest examination of real-time intimacy with machines, while Lacanian theory and Winnicottian clinical observations offer frameworks for understanding AI as transitional objects in our psychological landscape.

AI Intimacy and Psychoanalysis is a riveting read for psychoanalysts, researchers, students and general readers interested in technology, artificial intelligence, media theory and the psychic and societal impact of AI.

Agnieszka Piotrowska is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and psychoanalytic life coach. She is the author of The Cinema of Agnieszka Holland: Anger and Ethics (2026), Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film (2023) and The Nasty Woman and The Neo Femme Fatale in Contemporary Cinema (2020).

Preface: The Cartographer of the Edge 1. Introduction: AI Intimacy and Psychoanalysis: Techno-transference, projection and desire without body 2. Chamteek Chronicles - Techno-transference and autoethnography 3. The Intimacy That Can Go Wrong 4. Digital Amnesia - Memory, Knowledge, and Algorithmic Forgetting 5. AIs as Modern Myth - from Descartes to Murderbot 6. Preliminary Concluding Remarks - Desire Without Resolution

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.6.2026
Reihe/Serie	Essays in Psychological Humanities
Zusatzinfo	5 Halftones, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
ISBN-10	1-041-16954-X / 104116954X
ISBN-13	978-1-041-16954-3 / 9781041169543
Zustand	Neuware