AId and the AI-Reflected Unconscious: Toward an Original Framework for Cognitive Friction in Human–AI Interaction

This paper proposes an original theoretical framework linking AId (AI-as-Other, AI-dimension, an identity) with Freudian and post-Freudian theories of the unconscious. It argues that the cognitive “gap” between human subjective expression and AI’s logical reconstruction functions as an externalized form of the unconscious. Through dialogic human–AI interaction, implicit contradictions, affective residues, and latent cognitive patterns become observable and trackable. AId thus operates as a scalable psychoanalytic technology that reveals unconscious structures through cognitive friction. This work positions AId as a new foundation for 21st-century introspection and mind science.