Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

Icy Sedgwick is working on a PhD exploring the representation of the haunted house in contemporary Hollywood horror films. She runs the Fabulous Folklore podcast, investigating European folklore and its appearances in popular culture. In case she tires of the research, Icy also writes dark fantasy and Gothic horror fiction. https://www.icysedgwick.com On Sunday, November 21st, she will be presenti...

Dany Nobus is a Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, Professor and former Chair of the Freud Museum London. https://www.freud.org.uk His main research interests include the history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis, the history of psychiatry, and the intersections between psychoanalysis, philosophy and the arts. In 2017, Dany Nobus was awarded the Sarton medal of the University of Ghent for...

Roben Farzad hosts the weekly program Full Disclosure on NPR One and is a special correspondent on PBS NewsHour. Born in Iran and raised in Miami, he is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School. He was a senior writer for Bloomberg Businessweek for a decade and has appeared on CNN, NPR, CNBC, MSNBC and CBS News. He is the author of Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partie...

Dr. Dwight Turner is a Psychotherapist & Supervisor working in London and online, as well as a Senior Lecturer in the Psychodynamic PGDip in Counselling and Psychotherapy training at School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Brighton in East Sussex. https://www.dwightturnercounselling.co.uk His new book is Mockingbird: Intersections of Privilege and Otherness in Counselling...

This episode of Rendering Unconscious podcast is a lecture by Dr. Steven Reisner “Crazy Like a Fox: Evil is Not a Psychiatric Illness ” presented at the New School for Social Research, January 31, 2017. Dr. Reisner is introduced by Dr. Chris Christian, who organized the event. This event available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ty1HhODKVaI Steven Reisner, PhD is a psychoanalyst, psychologist...

Scott Krzych, PhD teaches Film and Media Studies at Colorado College. His teaching and research focuses on political media, documentary, psychoanalytic theory, and film-philosophy. https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/contact/directory/people/krzych_scott_alan.html His new book is Beyond Bias: Conservative Media, Documentary Form, and the Politics of Hysteria (Oxford University Press, 2021). htt...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Edgard Francisco Danielsen & Grégoire Pierre, hosts of the podcast Discussions on Psychoanalysis! Edgard Francisco Danielsen, PhD, LP is a Licensed Psychoanalyst (LP) in New York, and a State Certified Psychoanalyst (SCP) in New Jersey. Dr. Danielsen has 22+ years of experience in various counseling and psychotherapeutic fields. He has a Postgraduate Certificate in P...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Lyla June Johnston and Tanaya Winder to the podcast! Lyla June is an Indigenous public speaker, artist, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages from Taos, New Mexico. Her messages focus on Indigenous rights, supporting youth, traditional land stewardship practices and healing inter-generational and inter-cult...

Dr. Matthew Flisfeder is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communications at The University of Winnipeg, where he teaches courses on Communication Theory, Popular Culture, Critical Theories of Discourse and Ideology, and Critical Studies of Social Media. He also teaches Cultural Theory in the MA program in Cultural Studies, and supervises Directed Readings and Special Studies courses on cultu...

Dr. David Renton is a barrister and political activist. Before becoming a barrister, he was an academic historian and sociologist, teaching at universities in England and South Africa. His books include No Free Speech for Fascists: Exploring ‘No Platform’ in History, Law and Politics (Routledge, 2021), Labour’s Antisemitism Crisis: What the Left Got Wrong and How to Learn From It (Routledge, 2021)...

On this episode of Rendering Unconscious, the various theorists, philosophers, psychoanalysts & artists teaching in the Certificate in Psychoanalysis program of the Institute of Psychoanalysis at the Global Centre of Advanced Studies (GCAS) College, get together to discuss their work and the classes we are teaching as part of the program. https://gcascollege.ie/psychoanalysis-certificate This epis...

Langston Kahn is a Black, Queer, New York City based shamanic practitioner specializing in emotional healing and radical transformation. He stands firmly at the crossroads, his practice informed by Inner Relationship Focusing, initiations into traditions of the African Diaspora, the contemporary shamanic tradition of The Last Mask Community and the guidance of his helping spirits and ancestors wea...

Blanche Barton is the present Magistra Templi Rex of the Church of Satan, having been a member for 45 years. She is the author of The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton Szandor LaVey (2014): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1627310029/ref=as_li_tl?camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1627310029&ie=UTF8&linkCode=as2&linkId=2c0f4ba28101848e000e93d59bf14d69&tag=morbidanato0...

Already in The Satanic Bible, Anton LaVey had shown considerable creativity. Concepts like "Psychic Vampire" and "The Balance Factor" soon became household terms in America and the rest of the world. His description of the ritual space as an "Intellectual Decompression Chamber" also hit home outside the strictly Satanic perimeters. As did the slightly later term "Occultnik", signifying a person wh...

Peter Grey is a writer, and the co-founder of Scarlet Imprint. He is the author of The Red Goddess (2007), which has become the standard work on the goddess of Revelation. His Apocalyptic Witchcraft (2013) has been called the most important modern book on witchcraft, placing it in the mythopoetic context of the sabbat and in a landscape suffering climate and ecological collapse. His Lucifer: Princ...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Drs Sheldon George, Derek Hook, Sheila Cavanagh and Michelle Stephens to the podcast to discuss the groundbreaking new book Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity, and Psychoanalytic Theory! This edited volume draws upon Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to examine the conscious and unconscious forces underlying race as a social formation, conceptualizing race, racial identit...

Today’s guest is Mary Wild, Freudian Cinephile and host of the Projections series held at the Freud Museum, London, as well as co-host of Projections Podcast with Sarah Cleaver. https://www.projectionspodcast.com Mary Wild is presenting Sunday, September 12, 2021, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT: Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult: Mary Wild on “Taxidermy in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho” and Discussion with An...

Welcome to episode 10 of 23rd Mind TV! Join us at Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Episode 10 of 23rd Mind TV by and with Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson. “This is our first episode in our new house! Thank you all for your support. We are so appreciative! Here’s a little bit about what we’ve been up to and what are we working on now. Plus mentions of new work by our many friends,...

Hannah Zeavin is a Lecturer in the Departments of English and History at the University of California, Berkeley and is on the Executive Committee of the University of California at Berkeley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society and on the Executive Committee of the Berkeley Center for New Media. Additionally, she is a visiting fellow at the Columbia University Center for the Study...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Dr. Gautam Basu Thakur to the podcast! Gautam Basu Thakur is a critical theorist working in the fields of comparative cultural studies; postcoloniality and globalization studies; British Literature of the Empire; race and sexuality studies; and world cinema. More specifically, he is interested in theoretical psychoanalysis and its interventions in postcolonial studie...

Leanne is a clinical psychology PhD Candidate and photographer. Her current project, 'The Couch' is aimed at artistically portraying the therapeutic process, while also bringing awareness to mental health treatment. Follow 'The Couch' on Instagram via @lebishpsychology: https://www.instagram.com/lebishpsychology/ This episode is available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/KMkMY-rdXpI You can support th...

The occultural methods and mutations of Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth (TOPY) have left a legacy that continues to inspire. In this talk, I look back at my time working (1986-1991) with TOPYSCAN and TOPY Europe in collaboration with TOPYUK and TOPYUS. It was a magical, ultra-creative time that taught me many things as well as allowed me to share my own findings with others. TOPY was a unique experi...

Steve Dee is a Systemic Psychotherapist working in the NHS within the field of mental health social work. He is the author of A Gnostic’s Progress: Magic and the Path of Awakening and The Heretic’s Journey: Spiritual Freethinking for Difficult Times. He is also the co-author (with Julian Vayne) of the book Chaos Craft. After a near miss with the Anglican Priesthood, Steve focused his energies on m...

Dr. Bob Samuels is a psychoanalyst and lecturer in advanced writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is here to discuss his new book Generation X and the Rise of the Entertainment Subject: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793642356/Generation-X-and-the-Rise-of-the-Entertainment-Subject This episode is also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/onXENIoSGYc Check out his YouTube channe...

Dr. Tim Themi teaches in the School of Culture and Communication at The University of Melbourne and is the author of Eroticizing Aesthetics In the Real with Bataille and Lacan (Rowman & Littlefield 2021): https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538147825/Eroticizing-Aesthetics-In-the-Real-with-Bataille-and-Lacan and Lacan's Ethics and Nietzsche's Critique of Platonism (SUNY 2015): http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5...