Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

Katie Ebbitt is a poet and therapist in New York City. Her chapbook ANOTHER LIFE is available from Counterpath Press. http://counterpathpress.org/another-lifekatie-ebbitt Katie Ebbitt also contributed poetry to the anthology Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019): https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 Rendering Unconscious is a podcast hoste...

On this episode of Rendering Unconscious, I speak with Jason Haaf, a writer living in Brooklyn, New York. His non-fiction writing centers on memory, childhood, relationships and identity. Love Case, his debut novel, is a diary-esque series of short stories focused on sexuality, and the growth and experience that comes from repression (https://lovecase.bigcartel.com/). His short story "A Wilderness...

Today's guest is Trevor Pederson, a licensed professional counsellor and psychoanalyst in private practice in Laramie, Wyoming. His 2015 book The Economics of Libido: Psychic Bisexuality, the Superego, and the Centrality of the Oedipus Complex won the 2016 Gradiva Award for Best Book: https://www.routledge.com/The-Economics-of-Libido-Psychic-Bisexuality-the-Superego-and-the-Centrality/Pederson/p/b...

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 Theory After...

Damien Patrick Williams is a PhD researcher 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. He writes at www.afutureworththinkingabout.com, www.techn...

On this episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast, host Dr. Vanessa Sinclair speaks with Craig VI Slee, a writer, poet, consultant and theorist, who lives in the North West of the UK. Born with Cerebral Palsy, and latterly a partial-foot amputee, he is a full-time wheelchair user whose work covers the intersections between disability, environment, philosophy, storytelling, magic and myth. He blogs...

REBIS: The Double Being - Júlio Mendes Rodrigo On this episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast, Júlio Mendes Rodrigo - a Portuguese teacher, radio broadcaster, curator and writer currently based in East Timor, Southeast Asia - presents his paper REBIS: The Double Being, available as part of the anthology The Fenris Wolf, volume 9 (https://store.trapart.net/details/00026) - collected papers from t...

On this episode of Rendering Unconscious, philosopher Luce deLire presents "Necropolitics, the Death Drive and the Necessity of Evil" originally given at the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference, London 2016. http://psychartcult.org Collected papers from that conference can be found in The Fenris Wolf 9 (2017): https://store.trapart.net/details/00026 She has contributed to the anthology Ren...

Famed artist and musician Val Denham presents her paper "Proclaim Present Time Over" originally given at the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference, London 2016. http://psychartcult.org This paper can be found as part of a collection of papers from this conference that became a special edition of The Fenris Wolf volume 9, which can be found at https://store.trapart.net/details/00026 If you en...

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...

Swedish author Carl Abrahamsson presents Formulating the Desired: On Ritual Magic & Psychoanalysis originally given at Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult, London 2016. On this episode of Rendering Unconscious, author and occultural pioneer Carl Abrahamsson presents his talk "Formulating the Desired: Some similarities between ritual magic and the psychoanalytic process" originally given at the Psycho...

On this episode of Rendering Unconscious, Dr. Vanessa Sinclair interviews artist and art therapist Melissa Diaz, discussing fine art, outsider art, art therapy, mental health care, fundraising for Puerto Rico, MSD Strong and the March for Our Lives. Melissa Diaz is an artist and a licensed, registered, board certified art therapist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BFA in Painting fr...

This episode of Rendering Unconscious features a rendition of a talk entitled "Cutting up the Image of the Father/ Reconstructing the Third," originally given by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair at NGBK Berlin as part of the exhibition "Father Figures are Hard to Find": http://en.fatherfiguresarehardtofind.net/works/vanessa-sinclair-cutting-up-the-image-of-the-father-reconstructing-the-third/ Rendering Uncons...

NYC Psychologist Dr. Meredith Friedson discusses her new book Subjective Darkness: Depression as a Loss of Connection, Narrative, Meaning and the Capacity for Self-Representation. On this episode of Rendering Unconscious, host Dr. Vanessa Sinclair speaks with NY Licensed Clinical Psychologist Dr. Meredith Friedson about her new book Subjective Darkness: Depression as a Loss of Connection, Narrativ...

UK singer and multi-instrumentalist Sharron Kraus presents her talk Art as Alchemy, originally given at the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference, London 2016. Rendering Unconscious presents a talk by Sharron Kraus, a singer and multi-instrumentalist based in the UK. This talk, first presented at the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference in London, May 2016, is titled "Art as Alchemy"....

Irish Lacanian psychoanalyst Ray O'Neill discusses Salvador Dali's work from a psychoanalytic viewpoint, addressing narcissism, the theory of the double & posing the question what's really in a name? For more from Dr. O'Neill visit www.machna.ie Rendering Unconscious presents a talk by Dr. Ray O'Neill, a psychoanalyst practicing in Dublin, Ireland. This talk, first presented at the Psychoanalysis,...

Vanessa Sinclair: "Switching Mirrors" – a live reading at Rönnells Antikvariat, Stockholm, January 4th, 2017 Vanessa Sinclair: vocals Den Arkaiska Rösten: Per Åhlund: sounds, vocals & Girilal Baars: sounds, vocals For more information on Vanessa Sinclair's book "Switching Mirrors", please visit www.trapart.net To find more great music, please visit www.highbrow-lowlife.com and https://belaten.band...

Vanessa Sinclair: "Switching Mirrors" – a live reading at Aniara, Gothenburg, January 3rd, 2017 Vanessa Sinclair: vocals Joachim Nordwall: sounds Carl Abrahamsson: sounds For more information on Vanessa Sinclair's book "Switching Mirrors", please visit www.trapart.net To find more great music, please visit www.highbrow-lowlife.com and www.idealrecordings.com

Vanessa Sinclair: Cut-ups and poems Liza Beth Paap: Violin & poem/song Live at The Delancey, New York, November 28th, 2016 Please check out Vanessa Sinclair's book SWITCHING MIRRORS at https://store.trapart.net/details/00113 For more great music, please check out: https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com http://highbrow-lowlife.com http://www.drvanessasinclair.net https://store.trapart.net https://www...