On 11 June 2026, within the framework of “Ilia Thursdays,” a public lecture by Giga Maminashvili was held, organized by the International Research Center for Georgian Studies at Caucasus University, on the topic “The Castrating Father – A Metapsychological Portrait of the Post-Soviet Father.”

Giga Maminashvili holds a PhD in Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology and an MA from Université Paris VII Denis Diderot (2008–2021).

Within the lecture, the father was discussed both as a real object and as a metaphor. The social and political vacuum that emerged following the Soviet Union dissolution was also examined, understood as a space left by the absence of “Soviet fathers,” which was subsequently filled by various figures. The discussion further focused on the attempt to outline a metapsychological portrait of the post-Soviet father in the form of a conceptual “photofit,” based on the analysis of collective projections.