Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

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...

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...