We live in a time and space where we are confronted with all kinds of violence. This led us to choose the theme of the 9 th Psychoanalytic Views Symposium as "violence" which is an inevitable part of the human psyche and human interaction. We would like to think together on the concept of violence in this world where the violence palpably strikes us almost every day.

Life commences through a separation and ends with another separation. The individual copes with psychic separation anxiety, catastrophic dread, loneliness and death itself. The symposium topic of this year is "separation" which is experienced at an individual as well as a collective level and has been the inspiration for literature and art throughout centuries.