Fear and Prompting: AI, Originary Technicity, and Colonialism
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Published online on May 09, 2026
Abstract
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This paper examines psychoanalysts’ affective and defensive responses to artificial intelligence (AI) through the lens of originary technicity, the philosophical claim that technology is constitutive of the human rather than external to it. Drawing on ...
This paper examines psychoanalysts’ affective and defensive responses to artificial intelligence (AI) through the lens of originary technicity, the philosophical claim that technology is constitutive of the human rather than external to it. Drawing on ...