Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

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...

Dany Nobus is a Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst and former Chair of the Freud Museum London. 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 his outstanding contributions to the his...

Professor Dany Nobus is a Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst and former Chair of the Freud Museum London. 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 his outstanding contributions...

Jacob Johanssen's research is influenced by media and communication studies, psychoanalysis, psychosocial studies and critical theory. His work revolves mainly around two themes: exploring Freudian psychoanalysis as a theory and method for digital media research with a particular focus on conceptualisations of affect, as well as using psychoanalysis to think critically about contemporary digital c...

Today's guest is Julie Fotheringham, a psychoanalyst, dancer and performance artist in NYC. As a psychoanalyst, always ever in formation, she has a particularly Lacanian orientation, continuing her studies with the Lacanian Compass and the activities of Das Unbehagen. She is also on the editorial board of The Candidate Journal. "My main influences include the seminars of Jacques Lacan, the writing...

Isabel Millar is a PhD candidate in Lacanian psychoanalysis, cultural theory and contemporary philosophy in the School of Arts, Culture and Communication at Kingston University. Her research is on the later Lacan, Artificial Intelligence and the body. She is also a comedy screenwriter. Her PhD thesis project is called "Extimacy: Sex-Bots between Fantasy and Ontology". She will be presenting at The...

Dr. Ray O'Neill, a psychoanalyst in private practice in Dublin, Ireland. We talk about psychoanalytic theory and practice, Lacan, clinical work, mental health treatment, sexuality, sex positivity, anxiety, society, societal discourse, stigma, transgenerational transmission of trauma, politics & more! Dr. O'Neill runs Machna Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy a counselling and psychoanalytic practice bas...

On this episode of Rendering Unconscious, I speak with Dr. Walter A. Davis, Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University. He is an actor and playwright, as well as psychoanalyst and theoretician. His many books include Art and Politics: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, Theatre. Pluto Press, London, 2007; Death's Dream Kingdom: The American Psyche Since 9-11. Pluto Press, London, 2006; Get the Guests: Psycho...

A performance from the opening night of the Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson exhibition CUT TO FIT THE MOUTH, at Galleri Granen, Sundsvall, Sweden, January 12th, 2019. For more information please visit: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl

Alireza Taheri, PhD. provides psychoanalytic treatment in private practice in Toronto. He teaches Lacanian theory as part of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and Institute’s extension program and is a permanent faculty member of HamAva Psychoanalytic Institute in Tehran (Iran) where he teaches psychoanalytic theory and practice. He is also the book review editor of Psychoanalytic Discourse (an i...