Tag: artificial intimacy
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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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Joanna Stern’s ‘I Am Not a Robot’: When a Real Journalist Fell in Love with a Large Language Model, and What It Taught Us About the Fiction We Were Already Living
On the road trip, the restaurant, the hotel room, and the drawer where a real journalist put the phone back—and why the word math still worked on the heart.