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Thinking Animals and Thinking Machines in Psychoanalysis and Beyond

Thinking Animals and Thinking Machines in Psychoanalysis and Beyond

Franco Scalzone, Gemma Zontini
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 25
ISBN13: 9781466620773|ISBN10: 1466620773|EISBN13: 9781466620780
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2077-3.ch003
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Scalzone, Franco, and Gemma Zontini. "Thinking Animals and Thinking Machines in Psychoanalysis and Beyond." Complexity Science, Living Systems, and Reflexing Interfaces: New Models and Perspectives, edited by Franco Orsucci and Nicoletta Sala, IGI Global, 2013, pp. 44-68. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2077-3.ch003

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Scalzone, F. & Zontini, G. (2013). Thinking Animals and Thinking Machines in Psychoanalysis and Beyond. In F. Orsucci & N. Sala (Eds.), Complexity Science, Living Systems, and Reflexing Interfaces: New Models and Perspectives (pp. 44-68). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2077-3.ch003

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Scalzone, Franco, and Gemma Zontini. "Thinking Animals and Thinking Machines in Psychoanalysis and Beyond." In Complexity Science, Living Systems, and Reflexing Interfaces: New Models and Perspectives, edited by Franco Orsucci and Nicoletta Sala, 44-68. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2077-3.ch003

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Abstract

In this chapter, the authors examine some similarities between computer science and psychoanalysis, and formulate some hypotheses by bringing closer the statute of connectionism to the energetic model of the psychic apparatus as well as the OOP (object-oriented programming) to the object relations theory. The chapter also describes the relation existing between the functioning of mnemic systems and human temporalities as dynamic structures/processes which might be represented as complementary images of each other. The authors make some remarks on the machine and people theme, the way in which men relate to machines, especially “thinking machines,” describing the fantasies they arouse. In order to do this, the chapter uses Tausk’s classic (1919/1933) “On the Origin of the ‘Influencing Machine’ in Schizophrenia”1, as well as some of Freud’s writings.

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