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Isabel Millar - Psychoanalysis & Ai: Schreber's Basilisk

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

CHAPTER

The Lighthouse: Science, Capitalism, and Artificial Enjoyment

This chapter explores the concept of the Lighthouse as a machine for siphoning off enjoyment through science and capitalism. It discusses the abstraction of partial objects from the body and the role of technology in creating artificial forms of bodily pleasure. The discussion also touches on psychoanalysis, the object A as the cause of desire, and the potential implications of technology on our experiences of pleasure and pain.

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