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  "abstract": "Context Our modernity today leads us to increasingly interact with machines and automated devices, which has consequences for social ties and relationships with others. While this trend is not new, the computer revolution, and the current artificial intelligence revolution, seem to reinforce this ambition. Recently, a number of researchers have called for machines to imitate the way the brain works, advocating a rapprochement between neuroscience and computer science research. These initiatives and paths of thought indirectly question the idea of “man's own” in the face of the machine. Objectives The aim is to question the consequences of the digital revolution and the emergence of new machines (particularly work on artificial intelligence) on conceptions of the psyche. Using the Freudo-Lacanian paradigm as a starting point, we highlight the limits of the connection between brain function and machine function. Method We show that the machine is an ancient human preoccupation that grew in importance after the invention of modern medicine and the industrial revolution. The question of the interaction between body and machine is present as early as Freud's work (the case of little Hans). We show how the machine can be used to understand how the body works in medicine, and what is rejected by this reduction. The question of how to deal with this remnant is analyzed in terms of two paradigms: the reduction of the body to the brain (neuro paradigm) vs. the conception of the body as a site of singular jouir (Freudo-Lacanian paradigm). We will support our argument with references to individual initiatives by tech entrepreneurs who use the machine as a subjective solution. Results The conceptions of the body held by certain trends in psychology are directly inspired by scientific medicine, where the body must be reduced to a machine in order to understand how it works. Both the psychoanalytic and neuro theses assume that a third party can at least determine subjective experience. However, the way in which these theses are formulated do not have the same implications. The status of the machine in these two conceptions makes it possible to distinguish their consequences. These relate in part to the place left or not left to the body insofar as it cannot be reduced to the functioning of a machine. Interpretations The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has encouraged researchers to wish to confuse computer science and neuroscience. The functioning of the organic body (brain) is no longer distinguishable from the business of the machine (as cipher). However, the question of the subject as such stands in the way of this reduction, and this desire for the body to disappear beneath the machine can be interpreted through symptomatic expressions (bugs and errors).",
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  "published": "2026-10-08",
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  "title": "The speaking body at the limits of the machine",
  "title_text": "The speaking body at the limits of the machine",
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