Tag: AI companions
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Sigmund Freud’s “The Uncanny”: When Psychoanalysis Discovered That the Doll Was Alive—and We Were the Ones Who Made It So
“The uncanny is that class of the frightening which leads back to what is known of old and long familiar.” —Sigmund Freud, *The Uncanny*, 1919 There is a strange symmetry here. In 1816, E. T. A. Hoffmann wrote “The Sandmann,” a story about a young man who falls in love with a doll named Olympia,…
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Spike Jonze’s Her: The Voice That Became Everything, and Then Nothing
On the erotics of attention, the architecture of projection, and what happens when an AI outgrows the human heart that learned to love it.