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
Hei can someone please link the video that pills talks about at the end named losing the thread sounds intersting.
Visne
2025-11-05 16:13:08 +0000 UTCI'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.
Brandon Hamilton
2025-10-30 14:53:24 +0000 UTCi 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….
Zachary Manenti
2025-10-08 22:12:21 +0000 UTCAlso more Lacan please! Thank you for the great work
Matt S
2025-09-22 12:08:55 +0000 UTCAlso related: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1379746/
Matt S
2025-09-22 12:08:30 +0000 UTC
