Rendering Unconscious

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 chapters, has published 12 influential books, lectured and delivered award-winning papers throughout North and South America and Europe, is the managing editor and co-founder of the International Journal of Žižek Studies and co-editor of the Indiana University Press series in Digital Game Studies. He currently holds the position of Professor in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University (USA), and his teaching has been recognized with numerous awards, including NIU's Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the prestigious Presidential Teaching Professorship. For more, please visit his website: h

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 - Cinema's Uncanny Master, January 12, 2020, Freud Museum, London: https://www.freud.org.uk/event/projections-david-lynch-cinemas-uncanny-master/ Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. Episodes are also created from lectures given at various international conferences: www.drvanessasinclair.net Rendering Unconscious Podcast

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 from the University of West Georgia, and an MFA in Independent Film and Digital Imaging from Governors State University, Illinois. He currently works as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Northern New Mexico College. For more information please visit www.robertbeshara.com His recent books include: Decolonial Psychoanalysis: Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies: https://www.routledge.com/Decolonial-Psychoanalysis-Towards-Critical-Islamophobia-Studies/Beshara/p/book/9780367174132 A Critical Introduction to Psychology: https://novapublishers.com/shop/a-critical-introduction-to-psychology/ Sign up for the Critical

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 dimensional limits of "Normalcy," the irreducibility of Heterogeneity and Difference, Identity, the limits of Subjectivity, mass psychology, sexual difference, deadlocks and paradoxes of all sorts, among others. Three key theorists he is heavily invested in right now are Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, and Jacques Lacan. Five of his favorite fiction authors include James Baldwin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Clarice Lispector, Jose Saramago, and Zadie Smith. Mr. Williams holds a Bachelor's Degree from Case Western Reserve University in Art History and Sociology. He currently works as a Circulation Assistant at the Ingalls

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 temporalities of healthcare. His writing has been published in outlets such as Transgender Studies Quarterly, the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, and Blunderbuss Magazine, and he is a host on the podcast New Books in Psychoanalysis. Jordan grew up in South Florida. The film American Circumcision is referenced in the discussion: https://circumcisionmovie.com New Books in Psychoanalysis Podcast: https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/science-technology/psychoanalysis/ Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative art

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://www.versobooks.com/books/1060-ethics-of-the-real The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two (Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: The MIT Press, 2003): https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/shortest-shadow The Fifth Condition, [in:] Think Again. Alain Badiou and the Future of Philosophy (London: Continuum, 2004): https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/think-again-9781441134882/ The Odd One In: on Comedy, preface by Slavoj Žižek (Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: The MIT Press, 2007): https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/odd-one Why Psychoanalysis: Three Interventions (Aarhus University Press, 2008): https://en.unipress.dk/udgivelser/w/why-psychoanalysis/ What is Sex? (The MIT Press, 2017): https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/what-sex Rendering Unconscious

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 found at Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo... Please visit the www.renderingunconscious.org/about for links to all of these sites. Please find his books: "Occulture: the Hidden Forces that Drive Culture Forward" (Inner Traditions, 2018): https://www.innertraditions.com/occulture.html "Reasonances" (Scarlet Imprint, 2013): https://scarletimprint.com/carl-abrahamsson/ His ongoing series The Fenris Wolf via Trapart Books: www.trapart.net Please support the podcast at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl For more information visit: www.carlabrahamsson.com www.trapart.net www.drvanessasinclair.net www.renderingunconscious.or

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, every day" Dr. Sheehi is co-organizing the 40th Annual Spring Meeting of Division 39 - Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA), March 18-21, 2020, New York City: www.division39springmeeting.com Dr. Sheehi presented her work at the conference Psychoanalysis and Politics: Colonial Fantasies, Violent Transmission, Swedish Psychoanalytic Association, Stockholm, May 10-12, 2019: www.psa-pol.org/colonial-fantasies-programme/ Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, schol

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 book series edited by Derek Hook, Stijn Vanheule and Calum Neill: https://www.routledge.com/Reading-Lacans-Ecrits-From-Signification-of-the-Phallus-to-Metaphor/Vanheule-Hook-Neill/p/book/9780415708029 And most recently, volume 2: https://www.routledge.com/Reading-Lacans-Ecrits-From-The-Freudian-Thing-to-Remarks-on-Daniel/Hook-Neill-Vanheule/p/book/9780415707985 Upcoming Ecrits conference at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, October 11-13, 2019: https://www.duq.edu/academics/schools/liberal-arts/academics/departments/psychology/events/2019-lacans-écrits-conference Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoan

Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart, 2019): www.trapart.net 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 currently working on a manuscript on feminine sexuality in and through contemporary art praxes. Ecrits conference at Duquesne University, Pittsbu

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 therapist with an institutional and private practice in Paris. He is also a researcher and lecturer at the department of psychoanalytic studies in Paris Diderot University. His scholarly work has received numerous distinctions and awards, and he is the author of some forty articles in the fields of literature, cinema, psychopathology and psychoanalysis, published in French, English, Greek and Portuguese. His main interests focus on trans identities and countertransference at the intersection of metapsychology and gender studies. He is currently working as a co-editor of a special issue of the American monographic j

Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart, 2019): www.trapart.net 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/9780415708029 Dr. 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)

Rendering Unconscious is a podcast about psychoanalysis, culture and more hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst from New York City, now based in Stockholm. Dr. Sinclair sees patients internationally, specializing in online and remote treatment for entrepreneurs, creatives and business people who travel, offering continuity and quality of care for modern people on the go, as well as for those who are home-bound or live in remote locations and may not otherwise have access to psychoanalytic treatment. For more information visit: www.drvanessasinclair.net 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 University where she earned her Master’s degree in Engli

Rendering Unconscious is a podcast about psychoanalysis, culture and more hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst from New York City, now based in Stockholm. www.renderingunconscious.org Dr. Sinclair sees patients internationally, specializing in online and remote treatment for entrepreneurs, creatives and business people who travel, offering continuity and quality of care for modern people on the go, as well as for those who are home-bound or live in remote locations and may not otherwise have access to psychoanalytic treatment. www.drvanessasinclair.net This episode is a lecture by Dr. 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. Quoted in this episode: Dr. MJ Maher: https://www.karnacbooks.com/Author.asp?AID=18677 Dr. Nicholaj de Mattos

Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. Some episodes are lectures from various events. 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/books/55307/why-do-people-get-ill-/9780141021218.html), as is the work of Calum Neill.  https://www.napier.ac.uk/people/calum-neill For more, please visit: www.lacaninscotland.com www.renderingunconscious.org www.trapart.net www.drvanessasincla

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 culture (technology, media etc), and collective cultural identity (history, politics etc), as well as humanity’s ever present coevolution with technology and our transhuman future. Additionally, I have produced numerous multimedia artworks which confront similar themes.” You can find him and his art and design work on Instagram @Lucid_Pixel_Consulting Videos referenced in this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLR0xBAWd_o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk9vS-CFubw Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair. I interview psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts th

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 cum laude. His primary areas of study are war and conflict, art and visual culture, technology, and evolutionary biology. You can find him and his artwork on Instagram @Lucid_Pixel_Consulting Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair. I interview psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. I also post lectures from various events I’ve organized. www.renderingunconscious.org Please suppo

Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair. I interview psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. I also post lectures from various events I’ve organized. 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 For more info visit: www.sderachewiltz.net/en/ www.brunnenburg.net/en/ www.drvanessasinclair.net www.dasunbehagen.org www.trapart.net www.renderingunconscious.org The song at the end of the episode is from “MEMENTEROS” by Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abr

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. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, work, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture & the arts. Episodes also include lectures from events Dr. Sinclair organizes internationally.  www.renderingunconscious.org Kadmus Herschel is a published academic with a Ph.D. in philosophy teaching at the college level. He is also a practicing ceremonial magician with a long-standing relationship to the ancient Celtic deities. He has published extensivel

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. Another paper on the relationship between H.D. and Freud by Drs. Elisabeth Punzi and Per Magnus Johansson, “‘She is perfect’ – Nuancing Freud’s View of Femininity through Reading ‘Tribute to Freud’ with respect to mystical and religious themes,” can be found in Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019).  www.trapart.net H.D's works "Tribute to Freud" and "End to Torment" are both mentioned in this episode.  Dr. Punzi is organizing a conference at Gothenburg University, The Material and Immaterial Heritage of Psychiatry, June 11-12th, 2019, where both Dr. Johansson and Dr.