IV INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL MEETING OF INTERACTIVE PSYCHOANALYSTS
INTERACTIVITY AS A UNIVERSAL HUMAN PHENOMENON
UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE
The Fourth International Professional Meeting of Interactive Psychoanalysts was held on 6 December 2025 in the gala hall of the University of Belgrade. The meeting brought together participants from various fields around the central theme “Interactivity as a Universal Human Phenomenon”, with the aim of considering interactivity as a fundamental principle of human development, thinking, and relationships. The meeting was opened by Milan Popov, while the introductory lecture was delivered by Žarko Trebješanin, who spoke about interactivity as a connecting element between internal psychic processes and the external world, drawing on the tradition of classical psychoanalysis.
Within the first session, Igor Grujičić presented interactive psychoanalysis as a form of philosophical practice. Drawing on the theoretical premises of the paper Interactive Psychoanalysis as a Form of Philosophical Practice, Grujičić approached interactivity not as a technique or method in a narrow sense, but as a way of constituting meaning and reality within the subject’s experience.
The presentation emphasized that interactive psychoanalysis is oriented toward understanding modes of thinking, rather than solely toward the interpretation of contents or the reconstruction of past causes. Particular attention was devoted to the phenomenon of double manifestation, in which, in regressive states, subjective experience and external events appear as meaningfully connected. This phenomenon was not considered a symptom in the classical sense, but an epistemological problem indicating the structure of thinking and the formation of meaning.
Grujičić emphasized that the analytic position in this approach implies a phenomenological understanding of the subject’s experiential world, whereby analysis unfolds through dialogue and the education of the subject about their own cognitive processes. In this way, interactive psychoanalysis appears as a practice that naturally belongs to the domain of philosophical work with the human being.
Also within the first session, Anita Bali Miletić spoke about interactivity in the context of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development; Tamara Petrović examined the relationship between interactivity and the concept of the self; while Suzana Dimitrijević presented the topic of the connection between the enteric nervous system, psychobiotics, and emotional and unconscious processes.
The second session was dedicated to contemporary social and theoretical issues. Nada Trifković spoke about the influence of artificial intelligence on human interactivity; Đorđe Vozarević discussed the importance of psychoanalytic sociology in teaching methodology; and Nebojša Maksimović presented an overview from the Neuropsychoanalysis Congress in New York. The discussion was supplemented by Aleksandar Krstić and Lazar Stanojković.
The third session encompassed topics from the fields of art, religion, philosophy, and neuroscience. Presentations were given by Bajro Salkunić, Larisa Mikić, Sandra Šok, Darko Zubović, Ružica Ižakov, Dragan Jakovljević, and Lazar Bogunović, and the meeting was concluded with a presentation by Aleksandar Mrđen.
The meeting concluded with an exchange of views on the theoretical and practical directions of further development of interactive psychoanalysis, along with a shared consideration of interactivity as a basic framework for understanding human experience.