Can artificial intelligence be of help to psychoanalysis ... or ... vice versa?

Article Abstract:

Psychiatrists are using the connectionist model of computers to explain brain function. This model allows for multiple operations to take place at the same time since parallel distributed processing is an artificial system made up of many computing units that are connected in a network. Artificial intelligence is similar to Sigmund Freud's model in the understanding of psychological and neurological parallel processes and the ultimate objectives but different in terms of scientific and cultural contexts.

Computers, Digital computers, Artificial intelligence

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What postmodernism can do for psychoanalysis: a guide to the postmodern vision

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Psychoanalysis contains many components of postmodernism. Sigmund Freud's analysis of negation, his description of dreams and symptoms, his use of language are all postmodern features. Postmodernism leads psychology in a different direction than the scientific method. Some critics denounce postmodern psychoanalysis because they do not understand the language terms, such as 'decentered.' They also complain about postmodernism's lack of objectivity and hard facts, and its central reliance on language.

Postmodernism

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Toward a genealogy of culture

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Issues concerning the role psychoanalysis can play in understanding the historical processes of culture are examined. Topics include the influence Georg Wilhelm Hegel had on the development of psychoanalysis and culture, Sigmund Freud's understanding of culture, and understandings of culture through history from philosophical viewpoints as varied as early religion and postmodernism.

United States, Analysis, Influence, Culture, Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

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