The Last Psychiatrist
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The Last Psychiatrist is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between August 30, 2023 and August 08, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “But as The Last Psychiatrist says, “If you’re reading it, it’s for you.””; “Teach explains that his pseudonym, “The Last Psychiatrist”, is a reference to Nietzsche’s “Last Man””; “The Last Psychiatrist (who I usually think of as Nietzschean)“. It most often appears alongside Richard Hanania, 4chan, Achilles.
Metadata
- Category: People
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: August 30, 2023
- Last seen: August 08, 2024
Appears In
- Highlights From The Comments On Fetishes
- Matt Yglesias Considered As The Nietzschean Superman
- Highlights From The Comments On Nietzsche
Related Pages
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- Richard Hanania (3 shared issues)
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- 4chan (2 shared issues)
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- Achilles (2 shared issues)
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- Agamemnon (2 shared issues)
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- Andrew Tate (2 shared issues)
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- Ayn Rand (2 shared issues)
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- Bentham’s Bulldog (2 shared issues)
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- Bugatti (2 shared issues)
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- Christianity (2 shared issues)
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- effective altruism (2 shared issues)
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- Friedrich Nietzsche (2 shared issues)
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- God (2 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
I never asked any of these people to care about my half-joking introductory paragraph to an essay on AI and fetishes. But as The Last Psychiatrist says, “If you’re reading it, it’s for you.”
I’ve named this section after Edward Teach in honor of his book Sadly, Porn (review here), which helped me understand some of these dynamics. I’m no longer happy with my review - I focused too hard on the Lacan angle, but in retrospect the Nietzsche angle was stronger and more comprehensible. Somewhere or other, Teach explains that his pseudonym, “The Last Psychiatrist”, is a reference to Nietzsche’s “Last Man” - he imagines himself as the psychiatrist to the Last Man, trying to cure his Last-Man-ness.
Inline links: review here
Also, why is everything that’s written on your own soul good? The Last Psychiatrist (who I usually think of as Nietzschean) had a scathing article about people who sink too much of their identity into their sexual fetishes, as if they were central personality traits to be proud of, rather than shameful vices to be indulged in secret. But aren’t fetishes, in some sense, the purest and most soul-written preferences we have? Preferences that date back from before we can remember, preferences which go so deep they can affect our very autonomic nervous responses, preferences which we stick to even when everyone else hates and shames us for them?