RU324: DR JACK BLACK ON THE PSYCHOSIS OF RACE: A LACANIAN APPROACH TO RACISM & RACIALIZATION http://www.renderingunconscious.org/psychoanalysis/ru324-jack-black-on-the-psychosis-of-race-a-lacanian-approach-to-racism-racialization/
Rendering Unconscious episode 324.
Dr. Jack Black is here to talk about his book The Psychosis of Race: A Lacanian Approach to Racism and Racialization (Routledge, 2024). https://amzn.to/41Z98M7
Jack Black is Associate Professor of Culture, Media, and Sport at Sheffield Hallam University and affiliated with the Centre for Culture, Media and Society, where he is Research Lead for the ‘Anti-Racism Research Group’. An interdisciplinary researcher, working within psychoanalysis, media, and cultural studies, Jack is the author of Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy: A Psychoanalytic Exploration (Routledge, 2021) https://amzn.to/3DARofG
and co-editor of Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments (Routledge, 2022) with Jim Cherrington https://amzn.to/3C6SHCC
and
Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears (Lexington Books, 2024) with Joseph S. Reynoso: https://amzn.to/3DFAz3t
This episode available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/8-rd8ZvzpIk?si=njBeoMgWW20gpEfW
The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond (Routledge, 2025) edited by Vanessa Sinclair, Elisabeth Punzi and Myriam Sauer is now available. Be sure to check out this landmark volume! https://www.routledge.com/The-Queerness-of-Psychoanalysis-From-Freud-and-Lacan-to-Laplanche-and-Beyond/Sinclair-Punzi-Sauer/p/book/9781032603827
Rendering Unconscious is also a book series! The first two volumes are now available: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives vols. 1 & 2 (Trapart Books, 2024). https://amzn.to/4eKruV5
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Join us for Kenneth Anger: American Cinemagician with Carl Abrahamsson, Begins February 2: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/
Watch all of Carl’s films at The Fenris Wolf Substack. https://thefenriswolf.substack.com
Join us in London for the book launch for Meetings with Remarkable Magicians: Life in the Occult Underground by Carl Abrahamsson at Watkins Books, February 27th. https://www.watkinsbooks.com/event-details/meetings-with-remarkable-magicians-life-in-the-occult-underground-carl-abrahamsson
Then on February 28th, join us at Freud Museum, London for “Be Careful What You Wish For – Female & Male Existential Malaise and Hysteric Approaches in ‘The Substance’ and ‘Seconds’. https://www.freud.org.uk/event/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-female-male-existential-malaise-and-hysteric-approaches-in-the-substance-and-seconds/
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