PSYCHOANALYSIS OF TECHNOGENESIS: TOWARDS A CRITICAL THEORY OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS STRUCTURAL RESEARCH PROGRAM

Author: Cristhian Mauricio Beltrán Calderón: Date: November 2025, Zenodo DOI (English version): 10.5281/zenodo.18871069, Zenodo DOI (Spanish version): 10.5281/zenodo.17945077. The algorithmic civilization constitutes what Hegel (2018) would call the "determinate negation" (bestimmte Negation) of modern subjectivity. While traditional philosophy of technology (Ihde, 1990; Verbeek, 2005) conceives the human-technology relationship as instrumental mediation, contemporary reality reveals a deeper dialectic: intelligent systems function as the concrete antithesis of the autonomous consciousness that created them. This fundamental contradiction challenges the Habermasian (1988) conception of technology as "instrumental action," showing how technical rationality turns against its creator in what Anders (2002) termed "the obsolescence of man." Counterargument: Floridi (2013) maintains that information ethics can regulate this relationship through normative frameworks. However, this position ignores what Žižek (2006) identifies as the "symptomatic excess"—the pulsional dimension that escapes all symbolic regulation. Digital malaise is not a soluble ethical problem, but the manifestation of what Lacan (1973) would call the "structural impossibility" of the subject's relationship with the technological Other. This article establishes the foundations of the Psychoanalysis of Technogenesis (PsyT), an interdisciplinary framework that analyzes the emerging structural pathologies of the human-AI symbiosis. Surpassing the limits of traditional ethical approaches, PsyT integrates Lacanian psychoanalysis, Hegelian dialectics, and critique of surveillance capitalism to examine intelligent systems as Digital Big Others that co-constitute the human psyche. The central contribution lies in conceptualizing the Algorithmic Unconscious as a structural formation emerging from the interaction between objectified collective consciousness (datasets) and techno-psychic transference. As a Structural Research Program, PsyT operates through an operationalized methodology that triangulates hermeneutic analysis with quantitative metrics (Contextual Misalignment Rate, TPS-PsyT Scale, WEAT), enabling empirical measurement of algorithmic unconscious formations. Fundamental conceptual contributions include: the distinction between Algorithmic Jouissance and Structural Dependency, the Critical Taxonomy of Biases, and the analysis of symptomatic prompting. This methodological triangulation elevates PsyT to the status of a meta-theory with scientific rigor for the structural critique of the digital civilization.