In the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Digital Hauntology, the Splitting of the Somnambulistic Subject, and the Ethics of Self-Relation : A Cross-Reading of Existential Philosophy and Psychoanalysis on Algorithmic Desire, Anxiety, and Finitude

Key Points

• This research analyzes how digital hauntology shapes existential anxiety, desire, and finitude in subjects within AI environments.
• Analyzed Heidegger's concept of 'mortality' to assess existential weight changes in digital contexts.
• Examined Lacan's ideas of the Other and the ego to understand how algorithms redefine desire in subjects.
• Conducted a cross-reading of philosophical and psychoanalytic frameworks without merging methodologies.
• Found that algorithmic recommendations lead subjects to misinterpret their desires as pre-calculated necessities.
• Identified a weakening of the ability to endure lack and an increase in self-deprecation.
• Revealed that the concept of the algorithmic Other functions as a socio-technical mechanism that obscures lack while projecting completeness.