Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

Sheldon George is Professor of English and Chair of the English department at Simmons University in Boston, Massachusetts. His scholarship centers most directly on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and applies cultural and literary theory to analyses of American and African-American literature and culture. He is author of Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity and coedi...

Dr. Robert Samuels is Lecturer in advanced writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He holds doctorates in Psychoanalysis and English. He is the author of 11 books, including Psychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences (2017), Freud for the Twenty-First Century (2019), Psychoanalyzing the Left and Right after Donald Trump (2016) and Why Public Higher Education Should...

Katharina Rothe, Ph. D., is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst and psychosocial researcher. She is a graduate of psychoanalytic training at the W. A. White Institute in New York - http://www.wawhite.org - where she also teaches the course Gender, Sex & Sexuality. Alongside maintaining a private practice in New York City, she is widely published in academic journals and books on psychoanalysis,...

Chris Semtner is an internationally exhibited fine artist whose paintings have entered numerous public collections including the Virginia Historical Society and the University of Maryland. https://chrissemtner.com Semtner has written several books and chapters on topics including literature, visual art, and history in addition to contributing articles to Biography.com, Resources for American Liter...

Molly Castelloe, Ph. D, is a writer and videographer. She studied theatre and psychoanalysis at New York University and has published in international journals on psychoanalysis and group dynamics. For her film Vamik's Room, she garnered the Gradiva Award, which recognizes artistic excellence in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Molly is also an analytic candidate at the National Psychological Ass...

Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson: Live at the Escuela Incierta, Lugar a dudas, Cali, Colombia, July 7, 2018. Join us at: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Vanessa Sinclair, Psy. D. is a psychoanalyst, artist, author and poet, who relocated from New York City to Stockholm and sees clients internationally. http://www.drvanessasinclair.net Carl Abrahamsson is a Swedish author, musician, artist, photog...

Işık Barış Fidaner, PhD is a computer scientist who runs the blog Žižekian Analysis, “Learn, learn and learn!”: https://zizekanalysis.wordpress.com As well as Yersiz Kitaplar: https://yersizseyler.wordpress.com/kitap/ And the Žižekian Analysis facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Zatss You can support his work at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zizekanalysis Follow him at Twitter: http...

Andrew McLuhan is a Media Educator and Associate Editor of the Winnipeg School of Communication’s journal, Winnsox. He is a husband, father, poet, writer, teacher, craftsman, and explorer. Involved with McLuhan Studies for over a decade, Andrew was responsible for the inventory and evaluation of Marshall McLuhan’s “working library” and presents on the subject widely. Marshall McLuhan’s working lib...

Richard Newton is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. He received his PhD in Critical Comparative Scriptures from Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Newton’s areas of interest include theory and method in the study of religion, African American history, the New Testament in Western imagination, American cultural politics, and pedagogy in religious studies. His re...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Irene Strasser and Martin Dege to the podcast to discuss their process creating the recent online event series Psychology of Global Crisis 2020 hosted by American University of Paris https://www.aup.edu/psychology-global-crises and their podcast Crisis Talk. https://crisistalk.net Keynote and panel presentations from PSG2020 are available at YouTube: https://www.yout...

What have we been up to lately? And our friends? Join us – Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson – as we talk about what’s been going in terms of creative input and output! Remember to support the 23rd Mind TV show at: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Join us at Patreon for the unfolding of our experimental novel, “The Exquisite Corpse,” as well as for “23rd Mind” magic, creative cut-ups, inter...

Dr. Kevin Volkan is a founding faculty member and Professor of Psychology at California State University Channel Islands, where he researches and teaches courses in psychopathology and atypical behaviors, personality theory, as well as Nazi Germany, and Eastern philosophy. He also currently serves on the Graduate Medical Education faculty for the Community Memorial Hospital system in Ventura CA, w...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Carlos Padrón, a Latinx licensed psychoanalyst and an advanced candidate at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR). He originally studied philosophy in Venezuela, then earned an MA in philosophy with a concentration in psychoanalysis at the New School for Social Research, and finally an MPhil in Latin American literature at New York University...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Dr. Dwight Turner to the podcast! Dr. Turner is a Psychotherapist & Supervisor working in London and Paddington, as well as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton. Dr. Turner casts an intersectional lens on privilege, supremacy, otherness and social justice. Please visit his website https://www.dwightturnercounselling.co.uk where his research and writing may...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Dr. Joel Weinberger to the podcast. Joel Weinberger, PhD, is Professor in the Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and of the American Psychological Association. His research on unconscious processes has been recognized with the Ulf Kragh Award from the University of Lundh, Sweden. Author or co...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Tom Bland to the podcast! Tom Bland studied psychotherapy and dream analysis at The Society for Psychology and Healing, and Contemporary Performance Practices and Live Art at University of East London. He teaches online writing courses and edits the magazine, Spontaneous Poetics. https://www.spontaneouspoetics.co.uk Tom Bland’s The Death of the Clown is out with Bad...

Jason Haaf is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn, NY. His previous works have been featured in "Hello Mr." and "Warm Brothers" magazines and "Rendering Unconscious." He is the author of two novellas, "Love Case" and "Locked Up Boy." His latest work, "Bent Book," is a Queer-themed anthology and is available now. https://bentbook.bigcartel.com Follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/h...

Steven Reisner, PhD is a psychoanalyst, psychologist and political activist. He is a founding member of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology, Advisor on Psychology and Ethics for Physicians for Human Rights and past-President of Psychologists for Social Responsibility. He was a leader in the successful movement to prohibit psychologists from their central role in CIA and military abuses of deta...

Dr Jenny Butler is a well known folklorist and the leading authority on the academic study of contemporary Paganism in the Irish context, having conducted the first ever ethnographic study of Irish contemporary Paganism. Her book on this topic, 21st Century Irish Paganism: Worldview, Ritual, Identity, is forthcoming from Routledge. Also forthcoming are the edited collections including Folk Metal:...

Damien Patrick Williams is a PhD candidate at Virginia Tech in the Department of Science, Technology and Society. His research areas include ethics, epistemology, philosophy of technology, philosophy of mind, nonhuman intelligence, machine consciousness, comparative religious traditions, human biotechnological interventions and the occult. You can follow his work at: https://twitter.com/Wolven htt...

Dr. Eve Watson is a psychoanalytic practitioner, clinical supervisor and academic. She is involved in teaching and training in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and teacher education. She writes on psychoanalysis, sexuality studies, critical psychology, poetics, film and critical theory. Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory (2017) edited by Noreen Giffney and Eve...

What have we been up to lately? And our friends? Join us – Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson – as we talk about what’s been going in terms of input and output! We support Black Lives Matter and the American Uprising! This episode is available as a video: https://youtu.be/DUABTpxxtps Also… Join us at Patreon for the unfolding of our book, “The Exquisite Corpse,” as well as for “23rd Mind” magic,...

Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm received his M.T.S. from Harvard University and his Ph. D. in Religious Studies from Stanford University. He has held visiting positions at Princeton University, École Française d’Extrême-Orient in France and Ruhr-Universität and Universität Leipzig in Germany. He has three primary research foci: Japanese Religions, European Intellectual History, and Theory more broadl...

S. Alfonso Williams is an Independent Researcher based in Cleveland, Ohio. He has been immersed in the world of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and theory for the past five years following the path of auto-didacticism. Some of his numerous research interests include Polyvalence (the disjunction between Ontology and Epistemology), psychosis, dissociation and disavowal, Everyday Psychopathology and the...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Bhante Sanathavihari Bhikkhu, a Theravada Buddhist Monk from Los Angeles California. Currently enrolled in a Master's of Counseling Psychology Marriage Family Therapist program. He also has a BA in Religion and was previously in the United States Air Force Reserve. He is currently working on continuing his teacher's work on Buddhism as psychotherapy and conducting me...