Inverted Turing Test
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Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan's 'The Freudian Thing' · Adrian Johnston · p.167
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Theoretical move: Johnston argues that Lacan's mockery of the ego as an automaton-like recording device amounts to a critique of ego psychology that can be formalized as an inversion of the Turing test: rather than producing a machine that passes for human, ego-psychological treatment produces a human who passes for a machine, trapping the analysand in alienated repetition.
Lacan's critique of ego-psychological defense analysis can be construed as indicating that such analyses aim to fabricate seemingly natural stupidity… a person who might fail the Turing test, namely, a human at risk of passing for a machine