Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Dr Robert Beshara back to the podcast! Robert K. Beshara is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Humanities at Northern New Mexico College, USA. He is here to discuss his work translating Fundamentalism and Secularization by Mourad Wahba: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/fundamentalism-and-secularization-9781350228689/ Dr Beshara is the author of Decolonial Psychoanaly...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Drs. Victor J. Krebs & Richard Frankel to the podcast! They are here to discuss their new book Human Virtuality and Digital Life: Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Investigations (Routledge, 2021): https://www.routledge.com/Human-Virtuality-and-Digital-Life-Philosophical-and-Psychoanalytic-Investigations/Frankel-Krebs/p/book/9781138505155 They are currently working on...

Carl Abrahamsson talks to British author Nina Antonia about her recent Trapart book “Dancing with Salomé – Courting the Uncanny with Oscar Wilde and Friends.” Topics include Oscar Wilde and his relationship with Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas, the mystery of Dorian Gray, transgenerational curses, Bosie’s conflict with Aleister Crowley, Nina’s work as biographer of Johnny Thunders and Peter Perrett, t...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Joseph Robicheaux to the podcast! On this episode, he presents his lecture from the first Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference, London, 2016, “The Seven Souls: The Seven Layers of the Vodou Soul” Joseph Robicheaux is Oungan, Diviner, Author, Singer, Historian, Artist, Poet. He has dedicated his life to the study of the occult, spirituality and religion of Trad...

Ami Sands Brodoff is the award-winning author of three novels and two volumes of stories. The Sleep of Apples, her new story collection centres on nine closely-linked characters who confront crises related to mental illness, mortality, and gender identity. Ami’s novel, In Many Waters, focuses on three orphans whose lives intersect on the island of Malta, and grapples with our current refugee crisi...

Carl Abrahamsson talks to American surrealist Steven Cline about his new book “AMOK!”, collage-making, mail art, playing games with Atlanta’s surrealist group, sources of inspiration and much more… On “AMOK!”: In this collection of recent texts, American surrealist artist Steven Cline has opened the floodgates to his inner worlds, demanding that we take a look. When we do, we are irrevocably drawn...

All the recent and upcoming news from Carl, Vanessa, Trapart Books, Psychartcult, Rendering Unconscious, Trapartisan Radio, and a whole lot of friends! This episode also available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/yqdV0W0UGoI Related links: Upcoming events at Morbid Anatomy Museum, online via zoom: Sunday, March 27: The Compleat Story: How Anton LaVey Created The Compleat Witch by Peggy Nadrami...

Nathan T. Dean is a writer, trainee counsellor, practicing witch, artist, mischief-maker, and very angry wannabe activist who hates labelling himself. Originally studying screenplay writing, and moving into a range of occupations and studies ranging from substitute teacher for one-on-one support, Burger King employee, theatre director, event organiser, therapeutic theoriser, it is best to not try...

American artist and psychoanalyst Vanessa Sinclair talks about her books and other projects on Trapart Books, Films & Editions (and beyond). Includes examples of musical collaborations with Nordvargr and Pete Murphy. For more information, please visit: https://store.trapart.net/ http://www.drvanessasinclair.net/ http://www.renderingunconscious.org/ http://psychartcult.org/ https://www.patreon.com/...

Nina Antonia is here to discuss her new book Dancing with Salomé: Courting the Uncanny with Oscar Wilde & Friends. Dancing with Salomé unmasks the occult aspects of Oscar Wilde’s celebrated tome The Picture of Dorian Gray, whilst exploring how the unseen manifested not just in the famous author’s life but in that of his love interest, Lord Alfred Douglas. Through a series of interlinking essays, N...

In this first episode of Trapartisan Radio, Carl Abrahamsson talks to his wife, psychoanalyst and artist Vanessa Sinclair, about their recent book “It’s Magic Monday Every Day of the Week.” The focus on personal experience, ancestor veneration, intimate honesty, and avoiding possibly toxic group dynamics in magical practice, has made their ideas and formulations popular on many platforms, includin...

Dwayne Monroe is a cloud architect, Marxist tech analyst and Internet polemicist, focused on directing his almost 20 years of experience in the technology space towards a materialist analysis of the tech industry, informed by a mixture of theory and direct experience. In recent years, he has devoted time to dissecting the political economy of what he calls the “AI industrial complex” the topic of...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Tom Bland, Jason Haaf & Zaii Valdes to the podcast! This episode also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/MXjMF8ec3do Check out Tom Bland’s books Camp Fear and The Death of a Clown available from Bad Betty Press. https://badbettypress.com Follow Tom at Twitter: https://twitter.com/physis93 Jason Haaf’s forthcoming book is Harsh Cravings. Stay tuned at Instagram: h...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Gary Lachman to the podcast! On this episode, he presents his lecture from the first Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference, London, 2016, "Why was Freud afraid of the occult?" Collected papers from this conference can be found in The Fenris Wolf 9 edited by Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson. https://store.trapart.net/details/00026 Join us! Sunday, February 20...

Welcome to episode 11 of 23rd Mind TV! Join us at Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl This episode also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/2l-hsb0aIQQ Episode 11 of 23rd Mind TV by and with Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson. “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…” Vanessa is teaching...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Drs. Lara & Stephen Sheehi back to the podcast! They are here to discuss their new book Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge 2021). https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-Under-Occupation-Practicing-Resistance-in-Palestine/Sheehi-Sheehi/p/book/9781138596207 This episode also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/3A7k6UXw1i...

Ramsey Jones is a prolific musician based in New York City. His musical groups include Rebelmatic, Funkface, Abstract, Phunky Nomads, Dancing Dream, Bachslider and Maafa. He records, performs and tours with an array of musical acts, including Vernon Reid of Living Color, RZA, GZA and WuTang Clan. Most recently he performed Liquid Swords with GZA at The Blue Note NYC. Notably, he is the eldest brot...

Celebrating 4 years of Rendering Unconscious podcast! This episode is a medley episode of clips of various guests who have joined me for the podcast throughout the years. Enjoy! Join us Sunday, January 23rd @ 2PM EST live on zoom via Morbid Anatomy Museum: The Psychic Violence of Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski's Apartment Trilogy: Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby and The Tenant: Part of Psychoanaly...

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 Specula...

Drs. Clint Burnham, Paul Kingsbury, Alessandra Capperdoni and Calum Matheson are here to discuss their new book Lacan & the Environment (Palgrave 2021). https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-67205-8#tocv This episode also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/8-ey4VaI3Z0 Check out Lacan Salon: https://www.lacansalon.com You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.co...

A dancer and visual artist, Andrew Marcus founded DISAPPEARANCE in 2010 to explore boundary space between the ordinary, the beautiful, and the sublime. DISAPPEARANCE develops practices to effectively transcend such boundaries; to encourage experience of the magical and the erotic; and to unequivocally engage the real. Marcus holds an MFA in Dance and Performance from Arizona State University. His...

Carl Abrahamsson is a Swedish author, specializing in Occulture and Magico-anthropology. His books include Resonances (2014), Occulture (2018), The Devil’s Footprint (2020), Sacred Intent (2020), Different People (2021), and Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan (forthcoming from Inner Traditions, 2022). He is also the editor and publisher of the highly renowned anthologies in The Fenris Wolf series...

Susan E. Schwartz, Ph. D. is a Jungian analyst educated in Zurich, Switzerland and is a licensed clinical psychologist based in Paradise Valley, Arizona. For many years she has been giving workshops and presentations at numerous local, national, community and professional organizations, and lectures worldwide on various aspects of Jungian analytical psychology. She has written several journal arti...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Bonni Rambatan and Jacob Johanssen to the podcast! Bonni Rambatan is an independent scholar and researcher based in Jakarta, Indonesia, as well as a writer and artist for various comics, novels, films, installations, and other media. They co-founded and currently runs a comic book company, NaoBun, focusing on making progressive thoughts available to young readers. Th...

On this episode of Rendering Unconscious, Dr. Kasper Opstrup presents "Myths of the Near Future: Radicalising Body and Mind" at Re-Writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism and Psychoanalysis in Merano, Italy on May 30, 2019. http://psychartcult.org Dr. Kasper Opstrup is a writer and researcher based in Copenhagen. He is the Danish translator of, among others, Alexander Trocchi and Willi...