Abstract

FONTES, Maria Helena de Souza. Thoughts in transition: resistance to psychoanalysis, ChatGPT, A memory of the future, Everything everywhere all at once... Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2023, vol.57, n.2, pp.153-167.  Epub Nov 22, 2024. ISSN 0486-641X.  https://doi.org/10.69904/0486-641x.v57n2.11.

In 1926, H. P. Lovecraft already warned us that knowledge acceleration could end up taking us back to ignorance, caused by the human mind’s inability to process the increase of knowledge volume. ChatGPT, and its ability to immeasurably relate content from several areas, emerges as the realization of the threat of unleashing uncontrollable turbulence in society. The author establishes a connection between this fear and the resistance to psychoanalysis, both on the part of analysands as well as psychoanalysts themselves. The psychoanalytic method presents an advantage to deal with the anxieties born from the world’s complexities in this time of transition, to the extent that it is based on continence to the turmoil caused by catastrophic perturbations that are activated in the psychoanalytic encounter, allowing for the achievement of meaning. The author agrees with the essayist James Bridle, who proposes an approach to contemporary languages and technologies, and in her work she draws a parallel between the literary relevance of Bion’s language in A memoir of the future and the cinematographic language explored in the film Everything everywhere all at once. This approach would help analysts to realize the ability to think about both internal and external realities. Thought would then mean the antidote to the new dark age.

Keywords : resistance to psychoanalysis; A memoir of the future; ChatGPT; intimacy; complexity.

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