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Pill Pod 224 - ChatGPT Psychosis: A Lacanian Review
🕑 Added 2025-09-19 19:55:07 +0000 UTCThe Pill Pod looks at the chatbot psychosis phenomenon and compares it to Lacan's clinical structure of psychosis.
Sources:
Jacques Lacan - Seminar III
Bruce Fink - Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
"People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies," Rolling Stone:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/
"They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent them Spiralling," New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html
Comments
Visne
Hei can someone please link the video that pills talks about at the end named losing the thread sounds intersting.
Brandon Hamilton
I've had a psychotic break while on alot of drugs and heavy drinking. It was very scary the voices seemed to be coming from outside of myself. Luckily it was temporary.
Zachary Manenti
i think Pills is legit afraid of getting fired and playing kinda dumb and along w neutral- conservative… In any case, Perversion, for Lacan, clearly has a conservative and a more radical (disruptive of patriarchy) aspect. Don Giovanni for one example. Perversion is potentially two sided in relation to the law….
Matt S
Also more Lacan please! Thank you for the great work
Matt S
Also related: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1379746/
