Exploring the development of algorithms in Lacanian theory, specifically "R schema" 1950s, I argue that psychoanalysis, read through contemporary debates about "algorithmic cult" Netflix and other avatars popular culture, can be said to reveal inhuman, machinic essence subjectivity. The etiology algorithms, mathemes, formulae diagrams Lacan’s oeuvre has been under-studied, part because for some...

This article seeks to reopen a major question raised by the Lacanian nosology of the psychoses, by looking closely at Lacan's formulations of what he never ceased referring to as "paranoia". While almost all classification systems of modern psychiatry, such as the ICD-10 and the DSM-5, have abandoned the specific category of paranoia, Lacan always viewed paranoia as a major category of "functio...