How to cite: Velykodna, M. (2021). Not a plague anymore? The fate of psychoanalysis on the continent of the Virtual [in Ukrainian]. Psychoanalysis and the Virtual: ethics, metapsychology and clinical experience of remote practice : Conference proceedings, June, 12-13, 2021, Kyiv [electronic book]. - Kyiv, Kryvyi Rih: Publisher Roman Kozlov, 2021. - pp. 7-14. DOI: http://doi.org/10.32437/PVEMCERPdppp0001 The text below is a translation from Ukrainian. Mariana Velykodna Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Associate Professor of Practical Psychology Department at Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University (Ukraine), Psychoanalyst Certified by European Confederation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies, Head of Division «Psychoanalytic Psychology and Psychotherapy» of the National Psychological Association of Ukraine, EFPA valid member. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6269-793X NOT A PLAGUE ANYMORE? THE FATE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS ON THE CONTINENT OF THE VIRTUAL (Conference opening speech) In 1903, at one of the first Mercedes Benz car exhibitions in Berlin, German Kaiser Wilhelm II comments the model: "A truly beautiful engine you have here! But it's not as simple as that, you know», though several years before he asserted: “I do believe in the horse. The automobile is no more than a transitory phenomenon”. A more straightforward skeptical comment comes from the president of French Republic Felix Faure at the car exhibition in 1898. He calls what he sees "ugly carts that smell badly". However, cars, as we witness, have later become more in priority than horses and carts. The events described, as you could notice, take place almost at the same time when Sigmund Freud publishes "The Interpretation of Dreams" (1900). I shall remind that 600 copies of the book were printed back then, and they were being sold slowly for as long as 8 years. Psychoanalysis itself at those times would meet just the same skeptical reaction of the public