From Co-Presence to Co-Prediction:A Psychoanalytic Reconsideration of Intersubjectivity in Hybrid Environments
10.18529/psychoanal.2026.37.2.20
- Author:
Ji-Sun YANG
1
Author Information
1. Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
- Publication Type:Original Article
- From:
Psychoanalysis
2026;37(2):20-32
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
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Abstract:
Hybrid educational environments, combining in-person and real-time remote participation, have become increasingly common, yet their implications for psychoanalytic intersubjectivity remain underexplored. Classical psychoanalytic models presuppose bodily co-presence, offering limited conceptual resources for understanding technologically mediated interaction. Drawing on intersubjective psychoanalysis and selected insights from social neuroscience, this paper argues that hybrid settings alter the conditions under which intersubjectivity is sustained by weakening automatic bodily resonance and foregrounding anticipation, inference, and imaginative supplementation. To capture this shift, the paper introduces co-prediction as a descriptive analytic concept, referring not to a new psychoanalytic mechanism but to the heightened visibility of transference, fantasy, and expectation under conditions of senso-ry asymmetry and technological mediation. Based on a reflective analysis of the author’s experience in a psychoanalytic trainingprogram that transitioned from remote to hybrid instruction, the paper suggests that hybrid environments render explicit the inherently incomplete and predictive character of intersubjective experience.
