RU193: DRS VICTOR KREBS & RICHARD FRANKEL ON VIRTUALITY, DIGITAL LIFE, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOANALYSIS

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Drs. Victor J. Krebs & Richard Frankel to the podcast! They are here to discuss their new book Human Virtuality and Digital Life: Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Investigations (Routledge, 2021): https://www.routledge.com/Human-Virtuality-and-Digital-Life-Philosophical-and-Psychoanalytic-Investigations/Frankel-Krebs/p/book/9781138505155 They are currently working on a second volume exploring the effects of digital technology on psychic life with tentatively entitled: Dreaming (in) the Digital. You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated! This episode also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/7iOO9yMte0Q Richard Frankel, Ph.D. is a faculty member and supervisor at The Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is a teaching associate and supervisor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. His books include The Adolescent Psyche: Jungian and Winnicottian Perspectives, soon to be re-published as part of the the Routledge Classic Series. He has also authored "Digital Melancholy" and "Fantasy and Imagination in Winnicott's Work" amongst other papers. He lectures widely and teaches seminars on comparative psychoanalysis, Winnicott, Bion, dreams, and the interface of continental philosophy and psychoanalytic thought. https://mipboston.org Victor J. Krebs (B.A., summa cum laude, Vanderbilt University; Ph.D., University of Notre Dame) is currently Full Professor of Philosophy at the Humanities Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Perú. Before returning to Perú, where he was born, he lived in and studied in the US (Nashville, South Bend and Boston), and worked in London, before moving to Caracas in 1993, where he taught at Simón Bolívar University. Back in Perú in 2003, he founded the Jungian Circle of Perú (2010) and VJK Curaduría Filosófica, a philosophical experiment in art-curatorship. His current research centers on technology, film, psychoanalysis and pop philosophy. His books include: La Imaginación Pornográfica. Contra el escepticismo en la cultura (Lima, 2015), La Recuperación del Sentido. Ensayos sobre Wittgenstein la filosofía y lo trascendente (Caracas, 2007) and Del Alma y el Arte. Reflexiones en torno a la cultura, la imagen y la memoria (Caracas,1998). He is also contributing co-editor (with William Day) of SeeingWittgenstein Anew (2010, Cambridge University Press). He lives in Lima, Peru. https://vjk5555.wixsite.com/portafolio Follow him at Twitter: https://twitter.com/synchronicity23 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/synchronicity23/ The work of Wim Wenders is mentioned in this episode: https://www.wim-wenders.com Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair: www.drvanessasinclair.net Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: www.renderingunconscious.org Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart 2019): store.trapart.net/details/00000 The song at the end of the episode is “This is the Subconscious (Your Own Adventure)” from the album "Conceive Ourselves” by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy available digitally on Bandcamp from Highbrow Lowlife: https://vanessasinclairpetemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/conceive-ourselves Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Image: book cover