Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

Join us at Patreon: patreon.com/vanessa23carl Episode 2 of 23rd Mind TV by and with Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson. "What are we working on right now, and how and why?" This episode is available to watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/be9IBYgBeic And Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/396513280 Time to watch some good TV! We have just finished the second episode of 23rdMind TV, and it's as packed as the...

This episode is a lecture by Graham Duff entitled “Sublime Fragments: the Art of John Balance” presented at the conference Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult, held at Candid Arts Trust, London, May 6-8, 2016: www.psychartcult.org Graham Duff is a prolific scriptwriter, director, producer, script editor and author who has created a wealth of distinctive work for TV, radio, stage and publication: http...

This episode is a lecture by Langston Kahn entitled “The Thing Which Knowledge Can't Eat: Gods, Archetypes and the Mind” presented at the conference Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult, held at Candid Arts Trust, London, May 6-8, 2016. www.psychartcult.org Langston Kahn is a New York City based shamanic practitioner specializing in emotional healing and radical transformation. He stands firmly at the...

Today's guest is Molly Merson, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a BART- accessible practice in Berkeley, CA. She has 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 environments impact individual and community identity, well-being, and health...

Stephen Sheehi (Michigan, MA, PhD, Temple, BA; pronouns he/his/his) is the Sultan Qaboos Professor of Middle East Studies and Professor of Arab Studies at the College of William and Mary. He is a joint appointment in the Program of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) and the Arabic Program in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and a core faculty member of the Asian & Pacific-Is...

Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson present Episode 1 of 23rd Mind TV. There is a video to accompany this episode, where we showcase various books, music, film and art, so check out the video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/rI3JQGYHemA or Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/388735356 Join us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Episode 1 of 23rd Mind TV by and with Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamss...

Christos Tombras is a supervising psychoanalyst with a Lacanian orientation, practicing in London, UK. Dr. Tombras is a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, UK, and lectures, runs workshops and facilitates reading groups. His main research interest is in a dialogue between continental philosophy and psychoanalysis. He has published in both English and Greek. His book Discourse...

Joseph Scalia III, Psya. D. is a psychoanalyst and social critic. He is in private psychoanalytic practice in Livingston, Montana, in the shadow of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and its towering Absaroka Mountains. Dr. Scalia is a former president, and a critic, of one of Montana’s politically and financially powerful environmental groups, the Montana Wilderness Association. He is current pres...

Gregory Sadler, Ph. D. is a philosopher currently teaching as Adjunct Professor in Philosophy and Humanities, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Lecturer in Philosophy and Business Ethics, Marquette University, and Lecturer in Business Ethics, Carthage College. Dr. Sadler is the President of ReasonIO: https://reasonio.wordpress.com Editor, Stoicism Today: https://modernstoicism.com APPA-certif...

This episode is a lecture by Langston Kahn entitled "Shades and Shadows: How Our Unresolved Ancestors and Denied Selves Hold the Keys to Our Collective Liberation" presented at the conference Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism and Psychoanalysis, Schloss Pienzenau in Merano, Italy, May 31, 2019: http://psychartcult.org/re-writing-the-future-merano-2019/ Langston Kahn is a New Y...

This episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast is "Enigmatic signifiers waiting for translation: an Overinclusive Metapsychology of Gender and sexualities by Jean Laplanche," a lecture given by Dr. Nicolas Evzonas presented on the 25th October 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in an interdisciplinary meeting on « psychoanalyses and sexualities ». Here is the link for more information about this meet...

Dr. Jacob W. Glazier has a Ph. D. in Psychology: Consciousness and Society from the University of West Georgia. He has his Master of Science in Education in Clinical Mental Health Counseling degree from Western Illinois University and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Psychology degree from Augustana College. Currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Positive Human Development and Soc...

Michael Stuart Garfinkle, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York, NY. He is on the teaching and supervisory faculty at the Derner Institute/Adelphi University, the New School, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), and Teachers College/Columbia University. Dr. Garfinkle is on...

Dr. Aram Sinnreich is a media professor, author, and musician. He currently serves as chair of Communication Studies at American University’s School of Communication. http://sinnreich.com Sinnreich’s work focuses on the intersection of culture, law and technology, with an emphasis on subjects such as emerging media and music. He is the author of three books, Mashed Up (2010), The Piracy Crusade (2...

Today I speak with Sarah Tomley, co-founder of Who the hell is...? with Alice Bowden. A wonderful series of books exploring the life, times and ideas of the world's greatest thinkers: https://www.whothehellis.co.uk "Ideas don't come from nowhere. So we asked our authors to look at the lives and cultural influences of some towering intellectuals – as well as their most ground-breaking ideas – to se...

Today's guest is Jill Gentile, PhD, a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist in independent practice in New York. Dr. Gentile is a faculty member at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and the author of Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire with Michael Macrone (Karnac Books, 2016): http://femininelaw.com Dr. Gentile contributed the article “Hate...

Today's guest on Rendering Unconscious is David J. Gunkel. PhD, an award-winning educator, scholar and author, specializing in ethics of emerging technology. Formally educated in philosophy and media studies, his teaching and research synthesize the hype of high-technology with the rigor and insight of contemporary critical analysis. He is the author of over 80 scholarly journal articles and book...

Today's guest is Mary Wild, Freudian Cinephile and host of the Projections series held at the Freud Museum, London, as well as co-host of Projections Podcast with Sarah Cleaver: https://twitter.com/ProjectionsPod Follow her at Twitter: https://twitter.com/psycstar Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildest_daydream/ Projections Podcast: https://www.projectionspodcast.com Projections: David Lynch...

Rendering Unconscious Podcast welcomes Dr. Robert K. Beshara, critical psychologist interested in theorizing subjectivity vis-a-vis ideology through radical qualitative research (ie discourse analysis). In addition to being a scholar-activist, Dr. Beshara is a fine artist with a background in film, theater, and music. He holds two terminal degrees: a PhD in Psychology: Consciousness and Society fr...

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...

Dr Jordan Osserman is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, and a trainee in clinical psychoanalysis with The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is currently working on his book, entitled ‘Circumcision on the Couch’. He’s also beginning work on the team of ‘Waiting Times’, a multi-stranded research project on the tempora...

Today's guest on Rendering Unconscious Podcast is scholar and professor of psychoanalysis and philosophy Alenka Zupančič. Dr. Zupančič has authored many books including the following works in English: Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan (London: Verso, 2000): https://amzn.to/3xi14st The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two (Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: The MIT Press, 2003): https...

On this episode of Rendering Unconscious, Swedish author Carl Abrahamsson presents his lecture "Intuition as a State of Grace" on the similarities of the creative process in art and ritual. To listen to his previous talk "Formulating the Desired" on the similarities between ritual magic and psychoanalysis, please visit Rendering Unconscious podcast episode 7. Rendering Unconscious Podcast can be f...

Today’s discussion is with Dr. Lara Sheehi, psychoanalytic practitioner-scholar and activist (she/her/hers). "Psychoanalysis reminds us that we must reclaim the disavowed to move to health. In thinking of this, here is my ethically imperative commitment, as a clinician, to a liberatory psychoanalysis and a decolonial praxis--and a challenge/entreaty to all clinicians to take this up in every space...

Today’s discussion is with Dr. Derek Hook, Associate Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and Professor of Psychology at the University of Pretoria. A former lecturer at the London School of Economics and at Birkbeck College, he is a psychoanalytic practitioner, and the author of Six Moments in Lacan. https://www.duq.edu/academics/faculty/derek-hook Reading Lacan's Ecrits b...