Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

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...

Welcome to Radio Mega Golem: a transmission for and from the Mega Golem – the artwork created by Carl Abrahamsson in 2009, and which has since been partially added to by a number of other artists. EPISODE 4: ”Zweimal Saturnus” Invisible guests of Radio Mega Golem this evening were Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth, the Church of Satan, Ordo Templi Orientis, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and,...

Rendering Unconscious Podcast welcomes psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and professor Dr. Vamik Volkan to discuss his brand new book Large-Group Psychology: Racism, Societal Divisions, Narcissistic Leaders and Who We Are Now (Phoenix Publishing House, 2020): https://firingthemind.com/product/9781912691654/ Vamik D. Volkan is an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia, an Emeritus...

This episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast is the final panel from the conference Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism Psychoanalysis, held at Brunnenburg Castle, Merano, Italy, on June 1, 2019. Our hosts for the day were Mary and Siegfried de Rachewiltz, daughter and grandson of Ezra Pound. http://psychartcult.org/re-writing-the-future-merano-2019/ Join us at Patreon: https:/...

For today's episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast, Dr. David Pavón Cuéllar presents his text "Coronavirus as a symptom" originally prepared for Lacan Salon. You may find the original article here: http://www.lacansalon.com/listening-to-covid-19/coronavirus-as-a-symptom David Pavón Cuéllar is Professor of Marxism, Social Psychology and Psychoanalysis at the State University of Michoacán (Univers...

This episode of Rendering Unconscious features Karen Dougherty, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and documentary filmmaker based in Toronto. For more please visit her website: http://www.karendougherty.ca Ontario COVID-19 Mental Health Network: https://covid19therapists.com Karen Dougherty & the research of Dr. Beatrice Beebe at YouTube: https://youtu.be/rEMge2FeREw Toxic Beauty documentary: https:/...

Alois Sieben is a PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University, who studies the Internet from a Lacanian perspective, writing about the lost object of internet searches. He is a contributing writer to Lacan Salon: http://www.lacansalon.com/listening-to-covid-19 Visit his website: https://autofreud.wordpress.com Follow him at Twitter: https://twitter.com/obliveyondnight Rendering Unconscious Podcast is...

Dr. Juan José Rios is a registered hypnotherapist, psychoanalyst and training analyst at the Austrian Ministry of Health. After studying theology and educational science in Peru, he began specialising in psychotherapy. His first training in this field was in hypnosis at ÖGATAP (Austrian Society for Applied Depth Psychology and General Psychotherapy). He then gained a lot of experience in psychosom...

Welcome to Radio Mega Golem: a transmission for and from the Mega Golem – the artwork created by Carl Abrahamsson in 2009, and which has since been partially added to by a number of other artists. EPISODE 3: ”A dear one’s passing is the actual mind of the Mega Golem.” Invisible Guest of Radio Mega Golem this evening was Peter Beard, whose palimpsestic imprint on the fabric of consensus reality is...

Lynne Layton , Ph. D. is a psychoanalyst and part-time faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She supervises at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and teaches social psychoanalysis in the Department of Community, Liberation, Indigenous and Eco-Psychologies at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is the author of Who’s That Girl? Who’s That Boy? Clinical Practice...

This episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast features author and curator Joanna Ebenstein, best known for her work with Morbid Anatomy. http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com https://www.joannaebenstein.com Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artist...

Episode 4 of 23rd Mind TV by and with Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson. You may watch a video of this episode at the Trapart Film YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/wXtPu_-Ohkc And at Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/414822022 23rd Mind TV episode 4 Join us at Patreon for the unfolding of our book The Exquisite Corpse, as well as for 23rd Mind magic, cut-ups, interviews, articles, music, artwork, archiv...

Professor Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy (2017), Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016), Contemporary Film Directors: Spike Lee (2014), The Fictional Christopher Nolan (2013), Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis (2013), The Real Gaze: Film The...

Today's episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast welcomes Daniel José Gaztambide, visiting assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the New School for Social Research and practicing psychologist. His new book A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology reviews the oft-forgotten history of social justice in psychoanalysis. Starting with the work of Sigmun...

This episode of Rendering Unconscious podcast welcomes Michelle O'Brien and Nico Fuentes of the NYC Trans Oral History Project, a community archive devoted to the collection, preservation and sharing of trans histories, organized in collaboration with the New York Public Library. The NYC TOHP works to confront the erasure of trans lives and to record diverse histories of gender as intersecting wit...

Episode 3 of 23rd Mind TV by and with Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson. To watch the video accompanying this episode visit: YouTube: https://youtu.be/goFr3ExjaP4 Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/404109467 Join us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Time to watch some good TV! We have just finished the third episode of 23rdMind TV. We discuss current times, our canceled trip to America, th...

Today's episode of Rendering Unconscious podcast welcomes Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág, a storyteller based in Budapest. Also known as The Multicolored Lady, Dr. Zalka is Hungary’s first international storyteller. She travels the world, sharing Hungarian folktales with her audiences (in English, Spanish and Hungarian), and takes all the stories she learns back home to Hungary. For more, visit her websit...