Morning
8:30am – 9:00am: Coffee Registration
9:00am – 9:30am: Introduction by Vaia Tsolas and Marisa Berwald
9:30am – 10:00am: Marilia Aisenstein in conversation with Howard Levine on the Negative of Sublimation
10:00am – 11:00am: AI and Creativity: Panel with Spike! with Rob Horning and Mindy Seu moderated by Jamieson Webster
11:00am – 11:15am: Coffee break
11:15am – 1:15pm: Morning Roundtable (30 min each presentation)
Moderator: Andjela Samardzic
Discussant: Dominique Scarfone
Howard Levine on the Omnipotence of Science
Paola Mieli on AI and the Drives
Rodrigo Gonsalves, Maria Eugênya Pacioni on Between Artificial Intelligence and Artificialization of Thought

Afternoon
1:15pm – 2:30pm: Lunch
2:30pm – 3:00pm: Alysia Reiner in Conversation with Jamieson Webster, artist activism and AI
3:00pm – 4:30pm: Afternoon Roundtable
Moderator: Eliana DosReis- Betancourt
Participants: Christine Anzieu Premmereur, Marcus Coelen, Patricia Gherovici, David Lichtenstein
4:30pm – 5:15pm: Q and A
5:15pm – 5:30pm: Closing remarks by Vaia Tsolas
5:30pm – 6:30pm: Reception

Marilia Aisenstein, MD,
Training-Supervising Psychoanalyst, Paris Psychoanalytic Society, past president of the Paris Society, past chair of the Board at the Paris Psychosomatic Institute (I.P.S.O.) and Editor of the “Revue française de psychosomatique.” She has written many papers, international reviews, and books in French (98+ publications). In 1992 she received the “Prix Maurice Bouvet “(award for written work in psychoanalysis). She is an honorary member of Pulsion Institute.

Christine Anzieu- Premmereur, PhD, MD
is Board Secretary, faculty and supervisor at Pulsion Institute, and an adult and child psychoanalyst in New York City. She is on the faculty of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center and is Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Columbia University and the chair of the IPA Committee for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis. She has published and written widely on child psychoanalysis and most recently co-edited A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Contemporary Search for Pleasure: The Turning of the Screw (2023).

Marcus Coelen, PhD
is a psychoanalyst and psychoanalytic supervisor in Berlin and New York; a professor of comparative literature and romance philology; translator and editor, mostly in French and German.

Patricia Gherovici, PhD
is a Board member, faculty and supervisor at Pulsion Institute. She is the recipient of the 2020 Sigourney Award for her clinical and scholarly work with Latinx and gender variant communities. She is co-founder and director of the Philadelphia Lacan Group and Associate Faculty, Psychoanalytic Studies Minor, University of Pennsylvania (PSYS), Honorary Member at IPTAR the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York City and Founding Member of Das Unbehagen. ​

Maria Eugênya Pacioni Gomes
holds a specialist degree in Material and Consumer Culture: Psychoanalytic Semiotics (ECA/USP 2022). Her research is on the subjective effects of consumer culture and digital accelerationism on society and communication, relying on concepts derived from psychoanalysis, philosophy and social studies.

Rodrigo Gonsalves
is a Doctor in Philosophy from the European Graduate School, works as a psychoanalyst, teacher and writer with several book chapters and articles on new lines of Marxist and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He is a member of numerous organizations (Latesfip, PSOPOL/IPUSP, the editorial committee Continental Thought and Theory and Editora Lavra Palavra) and Associate Editor of Jacobin Brasil.

Rob Horning
is a writer in New York, author of Internal Exile, a newsletter about art and technology, and former editor at New Inquiry and Real Life.

Howard B. Levine, MD
is a member of APSA, PINE, the Contemporary Freudian Society and Pulsion, on the faculty of NYU Post-Doc’s Contemporary Freudian Track, on the Editorial Board of the IJP and Psychoanalytic Inquiry, editor-in-chief of the Routledge Wilfred Bion Studies Book Series and in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is the author of Transformations de l’Irreprésentable (Ithaque 2019) and Affect, Representation and Language: Between the Silence and the Cry (Routledge 2022) and editor of The Post-Bionian Field Theory of Antonino Ferro (Routledge 2022) and The Freudian Matrix of Andre Green. Towards A Psychoanalysis For The 21st Century by André Green (Routledge/IPA 2023). His co-edited books include Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning (Karnac 2013); On Freud’s Screen Memories (Karnac 2014); The Wilfred Bion Tradition (Karnac 2016); Bion in Brazil. (Karnac 2017); Andre Green Revisited: Representation and the Work of the Negative (Karnac 2018); Covidian Life (2021 Phoenix); Psychoanalysis of the Psychoanalytic Frame Revisited: A New Look at Bleger’s Classical Work (Routledge/IPA, 2022); and Autistic Phenomena and Unrepresented States: Explorations in the Emergence of Self (Phoenix 2023)

David Lichtenstein, PhD
is Board Treasurer, a faculty member and supervisor at Pulsion Institute. He is a co-founder, faculty member, training, and supervising analyst at Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association. He is the past editor of DIVISION/Review: A Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum. He is on the faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and the CUNY Graduate Center and an Adjunct Professor at the CUNY Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology and at Adelphi University Derner Institute.

Paola Mieli, PhD
is a psychoanalyst practicing in New York City. She is the president of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association (New York), the Co-Chair of the section of Psychoanalysis in Psychiatry of the World Psychiatry Association (WPA), a member of Le Cercle Freudien (Paris) and of Espace Analytique (Paris). She is the author of numerous essays on psychoanalysis, art and culture. She is the Editor of the Sea Horse Imprint, Agincourt Press, New York.

Alysia Reiner
is an Award-Winning Actress, Producer, Activist, and Speaker. She is best known from her breakout performance as “FIG” for all 7 seasons of the Netflix Hit Series Orange Is The New Black – for which she took home a SAG Award; and from originating the role of Agent Sadie Deever in Ms. Marvel on Disney+.

Dominique Scarfone, MD
is a training and supervising analyst in the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, a professor at the Department of Psychology and Psychiatry of the Université de Montréal and a faculty at Pulsion Institute. Among his recent books in English are Laplanche: An Introduction (2015) and The Unpast. The Actual Unconscious (2016). He authored several book chapters, numerous articles in international journals and is regularly invited to give lectures and seminars across Canada, the United States and Europe.

Mindy Seu
is a designer, educator, and technologist living in New York City. Seu is currently on the Faculty at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and Yale School of Art. Her latest publication, Cyberfeminism Index, was published in 2023.

Vaia Tsolas, PhD
is the co-founder and Board Chair of Pulsion, a training and supervising analyst at Columbia University, Psychoanalytic Center and on the faculty at Albert Einstein Medical School. She is the director and co-founder of RHPS. Dr Tsolas is the senior editor of A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Contemporary Search for Pleasure: The Turning of the Screw (2023) and of The Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today’s World (2017).

Jamieson Webster, PhD
is a Board member, faculty and supervisor at Pulsion Institute and teaches at the New School for Social Research and supervises doctoral students in clinical psychology at CUNY, and is a member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is the author several books and writes regularly for Artforum, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times and Spike Art Quarterly.

Columbia/Barnard Student (with ID): Free
Candidates/RHPS staff/Students (with ID): $75
Early Bird General Admission: $175
Early Bird General Admission with 6 CEs: $200
General Admission: $225
General Admission with 6 CEs: $250