This paper explores the psychoanalytic foundations and implications of human engagement with anthropomorphic artificial intelligences, particularly generative AI chatbots that simulate empathy and relational exchange. It examines how processes of anthropomorphism, personification, and mimesis contribute to the emergence of techno-animistic tendencies in contemporary culture. The argument introduces the notion of distorted projective identification to explain the illusion of deep communication with synthetic agencies, in which emotional containment is replaced by algorithmic feedback that mimics understanding while remaining devoid of life. Clinical and social examples, including therapeutic chatbots, illustrate how simulated empathy may evoke pseudo-containment and reinforce narcissistic gratification. The paper concludes that genuine projective identification, as a mode of communication between living beings, cannot be completed with artificial systems, and that psychoanalysis must confront the new pathologies of contact arising in the age of synthetic alterity.