ABSTRACT
Before the relational structure of artificial intelligence, with its fluid interactions—indeed, feedback loops—between digital systems and their users, it is pressing to examine not only new configurations of the subject, but also the question of the dynamic unconscious and its changing status in the context of a momentous mutation: the notion of “truth” has undeniably been displaced to operate under the logic of the algorithm. The erosion of the unconscious instance—the foundation of the subject and of psychoanalysis itself—resulting from the equivalence of the effects of the superego, insofar as at the service of the id and the death instinct, and algorithmic devotion, which operates on the margin of any subjective conception, leads to a reflection on the retort of a subtle pursuit of jouissance under the guise of the masquerade of servitude performed by artificial intelligence and Big Data. Ratifying the limit that the real imposes on the digitalization of existence, the pertinence of a mercurial psychoanalysis is affirmed—that is, a psychoanalysis capable of intervening on the subjectivating interstices of the novel human-technology mixes part and parcel of the contemporary sensibility.
