Obviously we should be careful about the tendency of GAI to hallucinate, but I’m increasingly prone to insisting these hallucinations can be generative if you approach them as intellectual elicitation devices. Claude earlier came out with the idea of jouissance-in-meaning which it defines as following:

“Jouissance-in-meaning” refers to the way in which the process of creating meaning or significance can itself become a source of jouissance. In other words, it is the excessive, transgressive pleasure that can be found in the act of symbolization or meaning-making itself, beyond the content of what is being symbolized.

This concept is most often discussed in the context of literature, art, and other symbolic practices, where the process of generating meaning and significance can take on a kind of intense, almost erotic charge that exceeds the boundaries of the symbolic order.

I could not find a reference to this anywhere. At which point Claude acknowledged that it may have made this up (but couldn’t be certain). However this is a really useful concept for what I’ve been thinking about with regards to enjoying writing.