RU182: PABLO LERNER ON LACAN, FREUD, THE DEATH DRIVE, DEATH, POETRY, FILM, INGMAR BERGMAN

Pablo Lerner is a psychologist from Gothenburg, Sweden, residing in Paris, offering psychoanalytic psychotherapies in private practice. He is the editor of the anthology Freud och dödsdriften (Simrishamn: Tankekraft, 2021): https://www.tankekraft.com/bocker/freud-och-dodsdriften/?fbclid=IwAR3PwTlyKfxVU4iSnPGRReHDhf9nNvf5o4OrQzSN8IhN6_EoR0USJeHHYlU He is currently working on a book entitled Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis: Rings and Voids which deals with the status of the void in Lacan’s psychoanalysis and sheds new light on phenomena such as creation, poetry, solitude, grief, mysticism, the clinical structures, and the poetic art of interpretation. In particular he is currently writing a chapter about precisely grief and death. https://www.pablolerner.se He contributed a piece to the upcoming collection Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: A Freudian-Lacanian Lens (Routledge 2022). This episode also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/QCaAmtSGsmU You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated! Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair: www.drvanessasinclair.net Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: www.renderingunconscious.org Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart 2019): store.trapart.net/details/00000 The song at the end of the episode is “Primary power of sound” from the album “Follow my voice” by Vanessa Sinclair and Per Åhlund available digitally on Bandcamp from Highbrow Lowlife: https://vanessasinclairperhlund.bandcamp.com And as a limited edition CD from Trapart Editions: https://vanessasinclairperhlund.bandcamp.com Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Image: Pablo Lerner https://www.pablolerner.se