"Can a robot perform psychoanalysis?"

在我的研究过程中，我将追求的问题是“机器人能进行精神分析吗？”精神分析学家的预期答案是“永远不会！”，而计算机工程师的回答是“不可避免”。为了回答这个问题，我正在研究当代人工智能，它的历史和应用，以及电子“自我意识”的可能性。我正在探索精神分析的问题，作为主体是什么，以及这种地位是否只属于人类。此外，我正在研究临床和理论精神分析之间的分裂，以及由于这种分裂，每个领域对另一个领域的影响。这项研究的开始将遵循我目前关于弗洛伊德和拉康理论的研究，特别是无意识的语言和时间主体；临床精神分析与理论精神分析之区别分析批判技术理论与历史唯物主义。我的研究将包括分析当代人工智能的发展和工业过程大规模自动化所产生的历史条件。我将研究并开发一种精神分析的临床模型，并将其与日益学术化的理论对照进行比较。在确定了这两个领域之间的区别之后，我将探讨这种区别的后果，以及它与自动化、计算机进行临床精神分析的可能性的关系。这项研究将参照我们所处的历史条件进行，并承认任何试图模拟这些条件的理论也总是这些条件的症状和产物。

The question I will pursue over the course of my research is 'can a robot perform psychoanalysis?'. The anticipated answer from a psychoanalyst is 'never!', while the answer from computer engineer would be 'inevitably'. To answer this question I am researching contemporary artificial intelligence, its history and applications, and the possibility of electronic 'self-awareness'. I am exploring the psychoanalytic question of what it is to be a subject, and whether this status is exclusive to humans. Additionally I am researching the split between clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis, and the effects that each domain has on the other as a consequence of this split.The commencement of this research will follow from my current studies concerning Freudian and Lacanian theory, specifically the linguistic and temporal subject of the unconscious; my analysis of distinction between clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis; critical theory of technology and historical materialism. My research will involve analysis of contemporary artificial intelligence development and the historical conditions which have proceeded from mass automation of industrial processes. I will conduct research into and develop a model of psychoanalysis as it is performed clinically and compare this procedure with its increasingly academicised theoretical counterpart. After establishing the distinction between these two domains, I will then explore the consequences of this distinction and its relation to the possibility of automated, computer preformed clinical psychoanalysis This research will be undertaken with reference to the historical conditions in which we find ourselves, and with the acknowledgment that any theory which attempts to model those conditions is also invariably a symptom and a product of those conditions.