Video recordings of Espace Francophone Jungien‘s May’s conference on AI and depth psychology are now available to watch for free online.
The Saturday morning session featured Jean-Pierre Robert on how AI reconfigures our relationship to the world. Beginning with a personal dream and a historical overview of computing, he traces humanity’s long-standing fascination with artificial beings back to ancient mythologies. Robert demonstrates how digital technology has evolved into an invisible “second skin” that mediates human existence from birth to death. Also in this session, Sophie Braun asks what kind of “psy” we want in the shift from couch to screen. You can watch both sessions here.
Saturday afternoon brings Dragana Favre on AI and the uncanny, exploring the space where machine and psyche meet. She reflects on the fundamental question of whether meaning can truly emerge without an organic body. She goes on to propose that technology simulates presence and offers hyper-adaptable, frictionless interaction, yet it remains devoid of organic life, internal breath, and the fundamental human capacity for lack, vulnerability, or unconscious depth. This session is followed by a round-table with all speakers, moderated by Jean Carlioz. You can watch both these offerings here.
Sunday morning turns to Rachel Huber on the future of man between transcendence and code, and Peggy Vermeesch on active imagination in the age of AI, drawing on a Star Trek-inspired amplification. Watch this session here. Sunday afternoon closes with a workshop from Yury Li-Toroptsov on the psyche’s confrontation with AI and artificial creation, in which he reads the classic tale of the Seven Ravens followed by a drawing exercise and debrief exchange with the audience. You can watch it here.
All presentations are in French, with auto-translate available through YouTube. See the full list, here.