In my play, The Authors of Silence, and my proposed book project, Cyborg Repair, artificial intelligence (AI) plays a pivotal role—not as a replacement for human activity, but as a tool that augments and enhances our capacity for two of the most profoundly human endeavors: artistic creativity and the care of the traumatized psyche. These works explore how AI’s incompleteness, its inability to replace humans in these activities, not only highlights the irreplaceable depth of h

From Writing to AI: Derrida, Tools, and the Philosophy of Cyborg Repair Jacques Derrida’s philosophy offers a profound framework for understanding how tools—whether writing, archives, or contemporary digital technologies—reshape human memory, identity, and subjectivity. His foundational concepts of the prosthesis and supplement expose tools not as passive aids to human capability but as integral to the construction of meaning and being. With the advent of artificial intellige

Overview The Enigmatic Other: Psychoanalysis, Moral Injury, and the Ethics of Care proposes an innovative approach to addressing moral...

Overview Reconnecting the Threads: Psychoanalysis, Health Humanities, and the Treatment of Moral Injury offers a transformative vision...

By Eric Anders, with and against ChatGPT Act II, Scene 1: The Shadow of Trauma (Lights come up dimly, revealing the psychoanalyst’s consulting room. The shadows are pronounced, the ticking of the clock persistent, marking time as if drawing the past closer to the present. Freud remains seated, his expression calm but attentive. Jefferson stands, his pacing more deliberate, his agitation mounting. Two of the screens are dark, and one is filled with an AI rendering of Thomas at

By Eric Anders, with and against ChatGPT Act III: Pharmakon and Fever Act III, Scene 1: Deconstruction of the Archive Setting: The stage is an ethereal, hybrid space—a lecture hall merged with an endless archive. Shelves of glowing documents stretch infinitely upward, pulsating as if alive. A lectern stands center stage, surrounded by semi-transparent screens displaying fragments from Acts I and II: Jefferson at Monticello, Sally Hemings in the shadows, Freud’s analysis, and