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An abundance of knowledge obliterates the lack which generates desire

From Darian Leader’s Why Do Women Write More Letters Than They Post loc 1361:

Trying to explain everything to the patient will necessarily eclipse the presence of desire: if you supply a lot of knowledge, the dimension of lack is obliterated. What matters is preserving a place for what is between the lines, for what you don’t know. If this place is maintained, it can function as a motor for the treatment and for the production of free associations. Get rid of it and the patient may well pack his bags.

What happens when every question now has a (psuedo) answer? When there’s no inchoate query that cannot be parsed for us by a machine? When the partiality, fallibility and limitations of a human interlocutor are eclipsed by machines? There are so many psychoanalytical questions waiting to be asked about generative AI.

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