Rendering Unconscious

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 the Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art in downtown Baltimore, where she teaches courses in literature, critical studies, and myth. Dr. Brottman is also a psychoanalyst certified since 2012 through the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NCPsycA). She does volunteer work in the Maryland prison system and in forensic psychiatric facilities. Her articles and case studies have appeared in The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, New Literary History, American Imago, and other journals. She liv

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 & other intellectuals about their process, work, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. www.renderingunconscious.org Dr. Dean contributed the chapter "How to measure what: notes on universals and particulars" to the anthology On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2018): https://www.routledge.com/On-Psychoanalysis-and-Violence-Contemporary-Lacanian-Perspectives-1st/Sinclair-Steinkoler/p/book/9781138346338 Referenced in this episode: Adam Tooze (2018) Neoliberalism's World Order: www.dissentmagazine.org/article/neoliberalism-w

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 history of psychoanalysis. Dr. Nobus has authored, edited, and contributed to many psychoanalytic books and journals. Recently, ‘Kant with Sade’, in Vanheule, S., Hook, D. and Neill, C. (eds.) Reading Lacan’s Écrits: From ‘Signification of the Phallus’ to ‘Metaphor of the Subject’. London : Routledge. pp. 110 – 167. 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, poli

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 to the history of psychoanalysis. Dr. Nobus has authored, edited, and contributed to many psychoanalytic books and journals. Recently, 'Kant with Sade', in Vanheule, S., Hook, D. and Neill, C. (eds.) Reading Lacan's Écrits: From 'Signification of the Phallus' to 'Metaphor of the Subject'. London : Routledge. pp. 110 - 167.  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

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 culture more broadly. He is Course Leader for the MA Data, Culture and Society, a new interdisciplinary course on datafication and big data, which launches in 2019. Dr. Johanssen's research interests include audience research, social media, digital labour, psychoanalysis and the media, affect theory, psychosocial studies, critical theory, as well as digital culture. His work has appeared in triple C; the International Journal of Cultural Studies; Information, Communication & Society; Journalism Studies and other journals. He is the author of the monograph Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture: Audiences, Social Media, a

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 writings of Freud, art in all of its forms, my patients, and of course my own psychoanalyst. At present, my performance practice comprises mostly solo movement improvisations interrogating the link between psychoanalysis and the body. Speaking and being. Speaking-being. Parlêtre." Julie Fotheringham contributed writing to the upcoming book Rendering Unconscious (Trapart 2019). 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, w

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 Courtauld Institute of Art for their conference "Imagining the Apocalypse". 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 & more! If you enjoy what we’re doing, please support the podcast at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl For more info visit: www.hystericsdiscourse.wordpress.com www.drvanessasinclair.net www.renderingunconscious.org w

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 based in North Dublin City Centre and Beara, West Cork. Machnamh is the Irish (Gaelic) term for reflecting, contemplating in an active, deep, considered way. "In our modern demanding culture it is more and more difficult to find a genuine time and space to step back from our lives and deliberately consider who we are, how we are living our life, or how we want to be?" The books Dr. O'Neill refers to are Paul Verhaeghe's Love in a Time of Loneliness and On Being Normal & Other Disorders.  Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, schola

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: Psychoanalysis, Modern American Drama, and the Audience. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1993; and Inwardness and Existence: Subjectivity in/and Hegel, Heidegger, Marx, and Freud. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. He describes his current work in this way: "My work, which is of a broadly interdisciplinary nature, has two unifying purposes: (1) a critique of the assumptions and concepts that underlie the humanistic traditions and (2) the construction of a radically new foundation for humanistic inquiry. That foundation is existentially grounded in what Paul Ricoeur calls "the subjectivity of the subject." It is thus

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 independent international journal for the clinical, theoretical and cultural discussion of psychoanalysis). Dr. Taheri has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and, most recently, in an edited collection On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2018): https://www.routledge.com/On-Psychoanalysis-and-Violence-Contemporary-Lacanian-Perspectives/Sinclair-Steinkoler/p/book/9781138346338 Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philos

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 hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, an American psychoanalyst based in Stockholm. Dr. Sinclair interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, philosophers, creative arts therapists, social workers, artists, poets, writers, scholars and other clinicians and intellectuals about their process, work, current events, activism, mental health care, diverse theoretical lenses and various worldviews. Episodes also include lectures given and recorded at various events hosted internationally. If you enjoy what we’re doing, please join us at: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Rendering Unconscious Podcast can also be found at: Spotify, iTunes

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" is featured in Issue 7 of Hello Mr. Magazine (https://hellomrmag.com/), and he has contributed Love Cases to the upcoming issue of Warm Brothers Magazine (https://www.warmbrothersmag.com/) Jason Haaf contributed poetry to the anthology Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019): https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 The zine Jason refers to is Doable Guys by Kyle Anderson and Lena Green. http://doableguys.com/about/ Support the podcast by joining us at: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Rendering Unconscious is a podcast hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, an

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/book/9781782201779 His new book is Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film: Reading the Symptom (Routledge, 2018): https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-and-Hidden-Narrative-in-Film-Reading-the-Symptom/Pederson/p/book/9781138307148 Trevor Pederson contributed to the anthology Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019)with "Essence, Alienation, and the Economics of Libido": https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts

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 Lacan (2007), and The Impossible David Lynch (2007). Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (2019) is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. Dr. McGowan contributed a chapter "The sex in their violence: eroticizing biopower" to the anthology On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2018) edited by Vanessa Sinclair and Manya Steinkoler: https://www.routledge.com/On-Psychoanalysis-and-Violence-Contemporary-Lacanian-Perspectives/Sinclair-Steinkoler/p/book/9781138346338 For more from Dr. Todd McGowan, please visit: https://vermont.academia.edu/ToddMcGo

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.technoccult.net and tinyletter.com/technoccult 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. Rendering Unconscious - a book of psychoanalytic writing and poetry - is forthcoming from Trapart Books. www.trapart.net If you enjoy what we're doing, please join us: www.patreon.com/vanessa2

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 at http://www.cold-albion.net If you enjoy what we’re doing, please join us: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl For more information visit: www.drvanessasinclair.net www.cold-albion.net www.trapart.net www.highbrow-lowlife.com The song at the end of the episode is from “LUNACY” by Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson available on DVD via Trapart, and upcoming from Highbrow-Lowlife on iTunes, Spotify, YouTube & all major streaming platforms: https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com/album/lunacy-ost Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair www.chaosofthethirdmind.com

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 the Psychoanalysis, Art & Occult conference published by Trapart (www.trapart.net). If you enjoy what we're doing, please join us: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl For more information visit: www.trapart.net www.drvanessasinclair.net www.dieelektrischenvorspiele.wordpress.com www.highbrow-lowlife.com The song at the end of the episode is "Crossroads" by Carl Abrahamsson featuring Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge from the compilation album COVEN available from Highbrow-Lowlife. https://coven-compilation.bandcamp.com Photo: Júlio Mendes Rodrigo at Swayambhunath stupa – Kathmandu, August 2018, Photo by María Errehache.

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 Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart 2019). https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 Luce deLire is mostly known as a sophist, lover of public dancing, time traveler, philosopher and collector of mediocre jokes. She is working on and with treason, post secularism, self destruction, fascism and seduction - all in mixed media. You can find more from Luce deLire at: http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/08/what-do-we-even-want-from-one-another/ http://literaturwissenschaft-berlin.de/roundtable-critique/ https://m.mixcloud.com/lucedelire http://heidyngbk.blogspot.de/?m=1 https://

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 enjoy what we're doing, please join us at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl For more information visit: www.drvanessasinclair.net www.renderingunconscious.org www.trapart.net www.highbrow-lowlife.com www.dasunbehagen.org The song at the end of the episode is "To Be Back With You" a collaboration between Val Denham and Vanessa Sinclair, with music by Carl Abrahamsson, from the compilation album MESSAGE 23 available from http://highbrow-lowlife.com/catalog/vanessa-sinclair-message-23/ Image is a still from a film created for "To Be Back With You" by Vanessa Sinclair available at Vimeo and YouTube. https://youtu.be/WiKAz