{"id":232338,"date":"2026-03-01T14:08:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-language-of-the-unconscious"},"modified":"2026-03-01T14:08:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:08:52","slug":"the-language-of-the-unconscious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-language-of-the-unconscious","title":{"rendered":"The language of the unconscious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-language-of-the-unconscious.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe unconscious is structured like a language,\u201d argued psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.<\/p>\n<p>And now, with the rise of AI-generated video and audio, Lacan\u2019s thinking has taken an unexpected twist.<\/p>\n<p>Might AI therefore capture something key about the human unconscious?<\/p>\n<p>Join leading Lacanian philosopher and collaborator of Slavoj \u017di\u017eek, Alenka Zupan\u010di\u010d, as she argues that AI shows the unconscious is structured like a large language model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe unconscious is structured like a language,\u201d argued psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. And now, with the rise of AI-generated video and audio, Lacan\u2019s thinking has taken an unexpected twist. Might AI therefore capture something key about the human unconscious? Join leading Lacanian philosopher and collaborator of Slavoj \u017di\u017eek, Alenka Zupan\u010di\u010d, as she argues that AI shows [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}