Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

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...

Today’s discussion is with Dr. Celeste Pietrusza, as she presents her work on kink, BDSM, psychoanalysis and phenomenology.  Dr. Pietrusza is a post-doctoral psychodynamic clinician current working at Greene Clinic in Brooklyn, NY. She completed her Ph. D. in Clinical Psychology at Duquesne University. Her doctoral dissertation traces changing dynamics in kink and BDSM theory and practices. She is...

This episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast is "The Truth of Gender: Psychoanalysis' Unthinkable Trauma," a lecture given by Dr Nicolas Evzonas at the 11th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (SIPP-ISPP) at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden, on May 2, 2019: www.sipp-ispp.org Dr Evzonas holds a PhD in Greek Literature. He is an analytically oriented...

Today's discussion is with Professor Todd McGowan, about his chapter on "The Signification of the Phallus" in Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Signification of the Phallus' to 'Metaphor of the Subject' (Routledge, 2019) edited by Stijn Vanheule, Derek Hook and Calum Neil: https://www.routledge.com/Reading-Lacans-Ecrits-From-Signification-of-the-Phallus-to-Metaphor/Vanheule-Hook-Neill/p/book/978041570...

This episode is a lecture by Katrina Makkouk entitled “Pound’s Occultism: the Development of Automatic Writing and Occult Philosophy in the Pisan Cantos” presented at Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism and Psychoanalysis, Brunnenburg Castle, Merano, Italy, June 1, 2019. For more about the conference, please visit www.psychartcult.org Katrina Makkouk is a graduate of Clemson Uni...

This episode is a lecture by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair entitled "The Crusade Against Magical Thinking" given at Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism and Psychoanalysis, Brunnenburg Castle in Merano, Italy, June 1, 2019. Dr. Sinclair is introduced by Dr. Kasper Opstrup. For more about the conference, please visit www.psychartcult.org. Rendering Unconscious is a podcast about psychoanal...

Amanda Diserholt is a PhD candidate at Edinburgh Napier University at the School of Applied Sciences. Her research looks at the symptomatology of fatigue from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective. She is also the secretary of Lacan in Scotland. www.lacaninscotland.com The book "Why Do People Get Ill?" by Darian Leader and David Corfield is mentioned in this episode (https://www.penguin.co.uk/book...

Ethan Clarke is an artist and visual anthropologist who earned his degree from UC Santa Cruz, graduating summa cum laude. His primary areas of study are war and conflict, art and visual culture, technology, and evolutionary biology, with expertise in design, art, applied anthropology, social sciences and their real world utilization. “I have written extensively on the interplay between created cul...

This episode is a lecture given by Ethan Clarke at the conference Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism & Psychoanalysis, held at Schloss Brunnenburg, Südtirol, Italy, on June 1, 2019. Read more about the conference here: http://psychartcult.org http://www.drvanessasinclair.net/conference/ Ethan Clarke is an anthropologist who earned his degree from UC Santa Cruz, graduating summa...

This episode is a talk by Dr. Siegfried de Rachewiltz, anthropologist and Director of Schloss Brunnenburg, Südtirol, Italy, given at the conference Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism & Psychoanalysis, June 1, 2019. Read more about the conference here: www.psychartcult.org If you enjoy what we’re doing, please support the podcast at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Rendering Uncons...

On this episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast, we have Kadmus Herschel presenting his lecture "True to the Earth and a Pagan Conception of the Self" first given at the conference Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism & Psychoanalysis, at Schloss Pienzenau, Merano, Südtirol, Italy, on May 30, 2019.  www.psychartcult.org Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr...

For this episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast, we have Elisabeth Punzi, PhD presenting her work with Per Magnus Johansson, PhD on Freud and H.D. This paper "Psychoanalysis and the Freedom of Thought; Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) was originally presented at the conference Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism and Psychoanalysis, at Schloss Pienzenau, Südtirol, on May 30, 2019. Anothe...

Stijn Vanheule is a clinical psychologist and professor at Ghent University, Belgium. He is also a privately practicing psychoanalyst and a member of the New Lacanian School for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective and Diagnosis, the DSM - A Critical Review and Psychiatric Diagnosis Revisited: From DSM to Clinical Case Formulation.  www.stijnvanheule...

Emma Lieber is a psychoanalyst in formation in New York, where she sees patients, and a part-time lecturer of Literary Studies at the New School. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cabinet, The Point Magazine, LitHub, New England Review, The Massachusetts Review, L.A. Review of Books, European Journal of Psychoanalysis, and other academic and psychoanalytic publications. She is currently a...

On this episode of Rendering Unconscious podcast, author/ editor Dr. Vanessa Sinclair speaks with publisher Carl Abrahamsson about the new book Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019). For more information, please visit www.trapart.net As well as about the upcoming conference Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism & Psychoanalysis...

Dr. Mikita Brottman is a writer, mostly of non-fiction. Although her writing includes elements of memoir, psycho-analysis, history, and forensic psychology, her most consistent focus is the reconsideration and interrogation of the true crime genre. Dr. Brottman has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University, and Director of the Humanities Program at...

Todd Dean, MD is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a senior editor at DIVISION/ Review and adjunct instructor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine. Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & o...