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Human-robot interaction and psychoanalysis

verfasst von: Franco Scalzone, Guglielmo Tamburrini

Erschienen in: AI & SOCIETY | Ausgabe 3/2013

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Psychological attitudes towards service and personal robots are selectively examined from the vantage point of psychoanalysis. Significant case studies include the uncanny valley effect, brain-actuated robots evoking magic mental powers, parental attitudes towards robotic children, idealizations of robotic soldiers, persecutory fantasies involving robotic components and systems. Freudian theories of narcissism, animism, infantile complexes, ego ideal, and ideal ego are brought to bear on the interpretation of these various items. The horizons of Human-robot Interaction are found to afford new and fertile grounds for psychoanalytic theorizing beyond strictly therapeutic contexts.

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Titel: Human-robot interaction and psychoanalysis
verfasst von: Franco Scalzone
Guglielmo Tamburrini
Publikationsdatum: 01.08.2013
Verlag: Springer London
Erschienen in: AI & SOCIETY / Ausgabe 3/2013
Print ISSN: 0951-5666
Elektronische ISSN: 1435-5655
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-012-0413-3

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