RU121: Dr Vanessa Sinclair On Violence, Rendering Unconscious, Why War, Freud, Einstein

On this episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast, I discuss violence in an array of forms including intimate partner and gun violence, and read excerpts from On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2018), Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019), and Why War? correspondence between Einstein and Freud. You can support the podcast at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2018): https://www.routledge.com/On-Psychoanalysis-and-Violence-Contemporary-Lacanian-Perspectives/Sinclair-Steinkoler/p/book/9781138346338 Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019): https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 Why War? correspondence between Einstein and Freud: https://en.unesco.org/courier/may-1985/why-war-letter-albert-einstein-sigmund-freud https://en.unesco.org/courier/marzo-1993/why-war-letter-freud-einstein Statistics and resources for IPV in USA: STAND against DV: https://www.optionhouseinc.com/education/statistics National coalition against domestic violence: https://ncadv.org Office for victims of crimes: https://ovc.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh226/files/ncvrw2018/info_flyers/fact_sheets/2018NCVRW_IPV_508_QC.pdf Conference on violence: http://dasunbehagen.org/event/civilization-and-its-blisscontents-on-violence-and-psychoanalysis/ RU26: TODD DEAN, PSYCHIATRIST & PSYCHOANALYST ON MENTAL HEALTH CARE, TREATMENT: http://www.renderingunconscious.org/psychoanalysis/todd-dean-psychiatrist-psychoanalyst/ Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists and other creatives & intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. http://www.renderingunconscious.org Vanessa Sinclair, PsyD is a psychoanalyst based in Stockholm. Dr. Sinclair authored Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: the Cut in Creation (Routledge, 2020), and recently edited the anthology Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019), as well as On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) with Dr. Manya Steinkoler. She organizes psychoanalytic events and conferences internationally and is a founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis. http://www.drvanessasinclair.net The track at the end of the episode is "The pathways of the heart (for Jess)" from the album of the same name. Words by Vanessa Sinclair, Music by Carl Abrahamsson. Available from Highbrow Lowlife: https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com Image of Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019): https://store.trapart.net/details/00000