✨ “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!
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