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International Interdisciplinary Symposium: "PsyAI: Interactions and Resonances of the Human Unconscious and Artificial Intelligence"

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International Interdisciplinary Symposium: "PsyAI: Interactions and Resonances of the Human Unconscious and Artificial Intelligence"

Dear colleagues, we invite you to participate in the interdisciplinary symposium

"PsyAI: Interactions and Resonances of the Human Unconscious and Artificial Intelligence",

which will take place on 21-22.03.25 in Kyiv and on the zoom platform.

 

✨ “PsyAI: Interactions and Resonances of the Human Unconscious and Artificial Intelligence” ✨

which will take place March 21–22, 2026 in Kyiv (Antonovycha St.) and on the Zoom platform.

‼️ 24 speakers ‼️

Languages of the event: Ukrainian, English.

 

📜 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

🌺 SATURDAY, March 21, 2026

10:00 – 10:15 Registration of conference participants

10:15 – 10:30 Welcome address by Nina Savchenko, Member of the Board of the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Union

10:30 – 11:00 Olesia Lomenko

Topic: “Artificial Intelligence as a Mirror of Contemporary Subjectivity: From Neurotic Logic to Algorithmic Thinking”

11:00 – 11:30 Iryna Valiavko

Topic: “The Subject in Digital Society: The Symbiosis of Humans and Modern Technologies in the Concept of Transhumanism”

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 – 12:30 Liliia Zakhariash

Topic: “Between the Warm Mother and the Illusion of the Warm AI Object: Fake Sensuality, Transference, and the Question of Love”

12:30 – 13:00 Yuliia Melashchuk

Topic: “When AI Spoke Instead of Me. The Stolen Voice: Can AI Take the Subject’s Voice?”

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:30 Kostiantyn Kolomoiets

Topic: “Transference Without the Other: How AI Changes Shame, the Request for Help, and the Very Idea of the Analyst’s Presence”

14:30 – 15:00 Kateryna Danylevska

Topic: “Digital Psychoanalysis: In Relationship with the Digital Other”

15:00 – 15:30 Olena Medvedieva

Topic: “COURIER OF ILLUSIONS. Artificial Intelligence as a ‘Safe’ Other”

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 16:30 Larysa Pastushok

Topic: “Desire in the Algorithmic Age: Psychoanalysis Facing the Challenge of Artificial Intelligence”

16:30 – 17:00 Dmytro Olshansky (Argentina)

Topic: “Transference and Countertransference in the Work of Artificial Intelligence”

17:00 – 17:20 Ivan Pronko

Topic: “Home Mechanicus”

 

🌺 SUNDAY, March 22, 2026

10:00 – 10:30 Inna Davis (Finland)

Topic: “BEYOND MACHINE THINKING. The Phantasm of the New Other and the Paths of Desire.”

10:30 – 11:00 Anna Danovska

Topic: “AI as a New Space of Anxiety: Fantasies of Losing the Profession and the Work of Defense Mechanisms”

11:00 – 11:30 Nargis Vodud

Topic: “A Voice That Always Responds: Griefbots as a Transitional Object and a New Economy of Grief”

11:30 – 12:00 Olena Osypenko

Topic: “AI as the Other in the Real, Where the Imaginary Has No Place”

12:00 – 12:30 Coffee break

12:30 – 13:00 Alex Yakovlenko

Topic: “Premonition of the Artificial Womb: AI as an Object of Anxiety and Desire in the Film Series ‘The Matrix’”

13:00 – 13:30 Diana Raschupkina

Topic: “Artificial Intelligence as a Screen for Projections: Unconscious Fantasies in Contact with the Non-Human Other”

13:30 – 14:00 Oleksandr Filts

Topic: “Human Knowledge vs AI Knowledge”

14:00 – 15:00 Lunch

15:00 – 15:20 Daniel Defays (Blexel, Belgium)

Topic: “Forms of Understanding in Artificial Intelligence: Language, Representation, and the Question of Meaning”

15:20 – 15:40 Carme García Gomila (Barcelona, Catalonia)

Topic: “How Artificial Intelligence Sees Psychoanalysis”

15:40 – 16:00 Jorge Eduardo Catelli (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Topic: “Artificial Intelligence, Digital Culture, and the Passion for Not-Knowing: Between Regulation and Subjective Emancipation”

16:00 – 16:20 Graciela Cardo (Lima, Peru)

Topic: “Artificial Intelligence and Contemporary Subjectivity: A Clinical Reading Through the Lens of André Green”

16:20 – 16:40 Mina Jafarisabet (Berlin, Germany)

Topic: “‘…Or Worse’: Headless Subjectivation and the End of Not-Knowing”

16:40 – 17:00 Vanessa Sinclair (Stockholm, Sweden)

Topic: “Desire Without a Body: Is Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence Possible?”

17:00 – 17:20 Arianna Salatino (Rome, Italy)

Topic: “Welcome Home? Psychoanalysis and AI in the Work of Spike Jonze”

17:20 – 18:00 Conference closing and final remarks

 

📍 Venue

Offline:

Olimpiiska metro area, 40 Antonovycha St., Dobrobut building, entrance 2 (from the pharmacy side), straight ahead to the business center entrance, through security, elevator/stairs to the 5th floor, room #501.

Online: Zoom

 

🔆 Participation fee (online and offline):

3000 UAH (for UPU members – 2500 UAH)

📜 Certificate will be issued!

💳 Registration after payment on the website:

https://upu.com.ua/uk/landing/sobytiya/mizhnarodnij-mizhdisciplinarnij-simpozium-psyai-vzayemodiyi-ta-rezonansi-lyudskogo-nesvidomogo-ta-shtuchnogo-intelektu/

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Organizer: NGO "Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Union"

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