Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

Episode 201 of Rendering Unconscious Podcast. Manya Steinkoler and I discuss our book On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives: https://www.routledge.com/On-Psychoanalysis-and-Violence-Contemporary-Lacanian-Perspectives/Sinclair-Steinkoler/p/book/9781138346338 This talk presented virtually at the 40th annual conference of APA Division 39: https://division39springmeeting.n...

Vanessa & Carl talk about all the recent and upcoming projects they have been/are involved in. Also available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/TtSr3vO8WYM Here are some relevant links from the episode: Carl’s new book Codex Nordica is available here: https://store.trapart.net/details/00183 With cover art by Swedish artist River : Gabriella Eriksson: https://river-artefacts.com https://www.inst...

Swedish artist Gabriella River Eriksson talks to Carl Abrahamsson about art and her work in general, about her contributions to THE TRAPARTISAN REVIEW and the cover of Carl’s novel CODEX NORDICA specifically, as well as her presentation at the upcoming “Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult” conference in Copenhagen in October 2022. http://river-artefacts.com/ https://store.trapart.net/ https://www.pat...

Rendering Unconscious celebrates 200 episodes! With Dr. Lara Sheehi taking over as host and interviewing Dr. Vanessa Sinclair. Dr. Lara Sheehi is a psychologist, psychoanalytic practitioner, scholar, activist, and President-elect of APA, Division 39. Vanessa Sinclair, Psy. D. is a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works internationally. If you enjoy what we’re doing, please support the podcast at...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Dr. Bret Fimiani to the podcast! He is here to discuss his new book Psychosis and Extreme States: An Ethic for Treatment (The Palgrave Lacan Series): https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-75440-2 Bret Fimiani is faculty, board member and psychoanalyst of the San Francisco Bay Area Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, USA, and a clinical psychologist. He work...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes David Patrick Kelly and Richard Ledes to the podcast! Writer and director Richard C. Ledes and actor David Patrick Kelly are here to discuss the new film Adieu Lacan. https://www.adieulacan.com https://www.richardledes.com https://twitter.com/ledesr Adieu Lacan is available to view/purchase online. Join Lacan in Scotland for an event May 26: https://lacaninscotland.c...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Moisés Lino e Silva to the podcast! Moisés Lino e Silva is tenured faculty in the department of anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in Brazil. He is here to discuss his new book Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela (University of Chicago Press): https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo135981232.html This epis...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Molly Merson and Lara Sheehi back to the podcast! Molly Merson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a BART- accessible practice in Berkeley, CA. They have an MA in Social Clinical Psychology from New College of California, a degree that placed an emphasis on the ways in which constructs of race, power, gender, socio-economics, and sociopolitical environme...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes this group of discussants to talk about remix and the post-rational future! Mark Amerika, David Gunkel, Aram Sinnreich, Paul Miller, Eduardo Navas. Mark America website: http://markamerika.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/markamerika David Gunkel website: http://gunkelweb.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/David_Gunkel Paul D. Miller website: https://djspooky.com Twitt...

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...