

Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture
Dr. Vanessa Sinclair
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Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture has moved to Substack: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com
Visit Dr. Sinclair's website: https://www.drvanessasinclair.net
Episodes
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Feb 2, 2023 • 1h 11min
RU228: DR AVGI SAKETOPOULOU ON SEXUALITY BEYOND CONSENT: RISK, RACE, TRAUMATOPHILIA
Rendering Unconscious episode 228.
Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD is a queer psychoanalyst based in New York City, and faculty member of NYU’s Postdoc Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is here to discuss her new book Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia (NYU Press, 2023). https://www.avgisaketopoulou.com
Check out upcoming events:
https://www.avgisaketopoulou.com/future-speaking-engagements
This episode available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/G7hrG08BJWQ
You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl
Your support is greatly appreciated!
Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works with people internationally: www.drvanessasinclair.net
Follow Dr. Vanessa Sinclair on social media:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rawsin_
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rawsin_/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drvanessasinclair23
Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: www.renderingunconscious.org
The song at the end of the episode is "Transmit" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy from the album of "Dream Exploded". https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com
https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com
Music also available to stream via Spotify & other streaming platforms.
Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com
Image: book cover

Jan 25, 2023 • 49min
RU227: DRS MARY KIM BREWSTER & CARTER CARTER, BEAUTY, STRUGGLE, DESTRUCTION/CREATION, PSYCHOANALYSIS
Rendering Unconscious episode 227.
Drs. Mary Kim Brewster and Carter Carter are here to speak about the upcoming they’re organizing Our Beautiful Struggle: Destruction, Creation and Psychoanalysis, the 42nd annual conference of APA Division 39, to be held April 26-29, 2023, NYC. https://division39springmeeting.net
https://www.ackerman.org/people/mary-brewster/
https://carterjcarter.com
This episode available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/ViQHjGmrrWI
You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl
Your support is greatly appreciated!
Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works with people internationally: www.drvanessasinclair.net
Follow Dr. Vanessa Sinclair on social media:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rawsin_
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rawsin_/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drvanessasinclair23
Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: www.renderingunconscious.org
The song at the end of the episode is "Transmit" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy from the album of "Dream Exploded". https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com
https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com
Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com
Image: https://division39springmeeting.net

Jan 19, 2023 • 58min
RU226: PHILOSOPHER SIMONE A. MEDINA POLO ON HEGEL, LACAN, PSYCHOANALYSIS, TRANS, LIVING PHILOSOPHY
Rendering Unconscious episode 226.
Simone A. Medina Polo is a philosopher and an MA researcher at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies for Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. She also creates music under the moniker pseudo-antigone.
Follow her at:
Medium: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pseudo_antigone
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pseudo_antigone/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pseudo_antigone
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gottagofastersonic/
Visit her LinkTree: https://youtu.be/IpqTY_q30KE
This episode available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/YanSH3oHXNY
You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl
Your support is greatly appreciated!
Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works with people internationally: www.drvanessasinclair.net
Follow Dr. Vanessa Sinclair on social media:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rawsin_
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rawsin_/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drvanessasinclair23
Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: www.renderingunconscious.org
The song at the end of the episode is “Into the Void of Infinite Sadness” by pseudo-antigone from the album of the same name available at Bandcamp. https://pseudo-antigone.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-void-of-infinite-sadness
Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com
Image: Simone A. Medina Polo

Jan 12, 2023 • 1h 5min
RU225: SOSTENES LIMA ON INTEGRATIVE, CULTURALLY SENSITIVE, PSYCHODYNAMIC THERAPY, EMDR, TRAUMA
Rendering Unconscious episode 225.
Sostenes Lima, LCSW of Sunset Trauma Therapy, serving all of California. He specializes in working with individuals and groups who seek to address experiences of trauma, anxiety, depression and more. Professionals of color, creatives, athletes, and fathers are clients that he often walks alongside in therapy. His approach is relational and client-centered, using EMDR, Psychodynamic, Culturally Sensitive Therapy, and Mindfulness as primary tools in achieving clients goals for wellness. https://www.sunsettraumatherapy.com
This episode available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/Lc15E5FrAiE
You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl
Your support is greatly appreciated!
Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works with people internationally: www.drvanessasinclair.net
Follow Dr. Vanessa Sinclair on social media:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rawsin_
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rawsin_/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drvanessasinclair23
Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: www.renderingunconscious.org
The song at the end of the episode is "Soft Explosion" by White Stains from the album The Somewhat Lost Horizon available from Highbrow Lowlife: https://whitestains.bandcamp.com/album/the-somewhat-lost-horizon-1991
Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com
Image: Sostenes Lima, LCSW

Jan 5, 2023 • 57min
RU224: MITCH HOROWITZ ON MODERN OCCULTISM, UNCERTAIN PLACES & STRANGE NEW WORLDS
Rendering Unconscious episode 224.
Mitch Horowitz is a historian of alternative spirituality and one of today’s most literate voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult. Mitch illuminates outsider history, explains its relevance to contemporary life, and reveals the longstanding quest to bring empowerment and agency to the human condition. Mitch’s reporting has called attention to the worldwide crisis of violence against accused witches. He is widely credited with returning the term “New Age” to respectable use and is among the few occult writers whose work touches the bases of academic scholarship, national journalism, and subculture cred. Mitch is a writer-in-residence at the New York Public Library and the PEN Award-winning author of books including Occult America; One Simple Idea; The Miracle Club; Daydream Believer; Uncertain Places; and the forthcoming Modern Occultism. https://www.mitchhorowitz.com
Follow Mitch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MitchHorowitz
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mitchhorowitz23/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MitchHorowitz/posts
Join us Sunday January 15th at 2PM EST via Morbid Anatomy Museum online for Uncertain Places and Strange New Worlds: A Live, Online Talk with Occult Scholar Mitch Horowitz, Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, and Carl Abrahamsson: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/events-tickets/uncertain-places-and-strange-new-worlds-a-live-online-talk-with-occult-scholar-mitch-horowitz-dr-vanessa-sinclair-and-carl-abrahamson
Join Mitch for a 4 week online course Parapsychology: History, Findings, and Challenges via The Theosophical Society in North America. https://www.theosophical.org/program/webinars/5454-parapsychology-history-findings-and-challenges
This episode available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/_hfKencxAlY
You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl
Your support is greatly appreciated!
Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst who lives in Sweden and works with people internationally: www.drvanessasinclair.net
Follow Dr. Vanessa Sinclair on social media:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rawsin_
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rawsin_/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drvanessasinclair23
Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: www.renderingunconscious.org
The song at the end of the episode is "Perverse, Neurotic, Profound" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy from the album of "The Sexual is Provocative" available from Highbrow Lowlife: https://vanessasinclairpetemurphy.bandcamp.com
Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com
Image: Mitch Horowitz

Dec 26, 2022 • 58min
RU223: NYC PSYCHOANALYST NATHAN RICE ON INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOANALYSIS & SELF PSYCHOLOGY
Rendering Unconscious episode 223.
Nathan Rice is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor with a private practice in New York City. https://www.nathanerice.com
He is faculty at The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center (PPSC): https://www.ppsc.org
Follow him at Twitter: https://twitter.com/nyctherapist
This episode available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/EUrUohnOy2w
You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl
Your support is greatly appreciated!
Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst who lives in Sweden and works with people internationally: www.drvanessasinclair.net
Follow Dr. Vanessa Sinclair on social media:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rawsin_
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rawsin_/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drvanessasinclair23
Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: www.renderingunconscious.org
The song at the end of the episode is "Unquenchable Fire" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy from the album of "Night of the Hunter" available from Trapart Films / Highbrow Lowlife: https://vanessasinclairpetemurphy.bandcamp.com
Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com
Image: Nathan Rice

Dec 21, 2022 • 1h 13min
RU222: POET, ASTROLOGER & DATA SCIENTIST KATY BOHINC ON THE RATIO
Katy Bohinc is a poet and a data scientist; an avant garde publisher and a professional marketer; an activist, an astrologer and an innovator. She studied pure math and comparative literature. These things are not contradictory. It’s the future. She has three books of poetry: Dear Alain (Tender Buttons Press, 2014), Trinity Star Trinity (Scarlet Imprint, 2017), and Scorpio (Miami University Press, 2018). Since 2013, she has collaborated on the award-winning Tender Buttons Press with Founding Editor Lee Ann Brown, publishing experimental women’s poetry, expanding the field of possible and probable since 1989. For a decade, she has worked as a data scientist and engineer. She is Founder of The Ratio, a project to study astrology with data science. Check out her latest Scorpio Poems. http://www.katybohinc.com
She is here to discuss THE RATIO. Google and Apple generate conclusions from data science every day. The Ratio applies data science to astrology data. The zodiac was derived from the world’s first “big data set” — 600 years of data generated by the Babylonians. From relationships studied among the stars, trigonometry and all of mathematics were born. https://theratio.space
The advisory board of THE RATIO is a group of leading technologists and scientists, astrologers and poets, marketers and journalists gathered to test the oldest thought system on earth by returning to astrology’s mathematical roots. Visit THE RATIO to learn more and read a history of math and astrology and data science here. http://www.katybohinc.com/blog/2018/1/31/the-twelfth-house-art-and-the-unconscious
Check out Katy’s presentation "Poetry as Magic" from Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism and Psychoanalysis, Merano, Italy, 2019: http://psychartcult.org
BOHINC, KATY – RU205: “POETRY AS MAGIC”: http://www.renderingunconscious.org/poetry/ru205-katy-bohinc-presents-poetry-as-magic/
Bernadette Mayer and Doug Lang are mentioned in this episode, as are 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrow by Ai Weiwei and Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon.
This episode available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/nXwhFGWGLEU
You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl
Your support is greatly appreciated!
Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst who lives in Sweden and works internationally: www.drvanessasinclair.net
Follow Dr. Vanessa Sinclair on social media:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rawsin_
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rawsin_/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drvanessasinclair23
Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: www.renderingunconscious.org
The song at the end of the episode is "Woman of the Year" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy from the album of "Night of the Hunter" available from Trapart Films / Highbrow Lowlife: https://vanessasinclairpetemurphy.bandcamp.com
Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com
Image: Katy Bohinc

Dec 5, 2022 • 58min
RU221: LAURA ROBU ON EATING DISORDERS, TRAUMA & THE NOURISHED HEART ORACLE DECK
Rendering Unconscious episode 221.
Laura Robu is a psychologist in training and creator of The Nourished Heart Oracle Deck, which you can support at Kickstarter. kck.st/3DZL6E0
Follow her at Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/the_psylosopher/
You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl
Your support is greatly appreciated!
Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst who lives in Sweden and works internationally: www.drvanessasinclair.net
Follow Dr. Vanessa Sinclair on social media:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rawsin_
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rawsin_/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drvanessasinclair23
Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: www.renderingunconscious.org
The song at the end of the episode is "Lunacy" by Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson from the album of the same name available from Trapart Films / Highbrow Lowlife: https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com/album/lunacy-ost
Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com
Image: THE NOURISHED HEART ORACLE DECK

Nov 24, 2022 • 1h 4min
RU220: DR JAMES SMITH ON THE POPULAR SHOW, POLITICS & PSYCHOANALYSIS
Rendering Unconscious episode 220.
Dr. James A. Smith is a literary scholar and political commentator. His literary scholarship focuses on mid eighteenth-century literature, especially the work of Samuel Richardson and the reception of Shakespeare. He also writes about the history of literary criticism and critical theory: in particular the approaches of F.R. Leavis, Walter Benjamin, the British New Left, and the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan. Dr. Smith is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Theory, Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London. https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/james-smith
His first book is Samuel Richardson and the Theory of Tragedy (Manchester University Press). Other People's Politics: Populism to Corbynism was published by Zer0 Books in 2019. Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism (co-written with Mareile Pfannebecker) appeared with Zed Books in 2020.
James A. Smith is co-host of The Popular Show podcast. Follow at Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepopularpod
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/popularitymedia
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod
You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl
Your support is greatly appreciated!
This episode available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/GWz937ZbXpg
Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst who lives in Sweden and works internationally: www.drvanessasinclair.net
Follow Dr. Vanessa Sinclair on social media:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rawsin_
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rawsin_/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drvanessasinclair23
Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: www.renderingunconscious.org
The song at the end of the episode is "Lunacy" by Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson from the album of the same name available from Trapart Films / Highbrow Lowlife: https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com/album/lunacy-ost
Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com
Image: The Popular Show podcast

Nov 16, 2022 • 1h 1min
RU219: MODERN PSYCHOANALYST TRACY MORGAN ON NEW BOOKS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
Rendering Unconscious episode 219.
Tracy Morgan is a psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC and works with individuals, couples and groups. She is the founder, editor and host of the award winning podcast New Books in Psychoanalysis and serves on the faculty of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies.
https://www.cmps.edu
https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/science-technology/psychoanalysis/
You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl
Your support is greatly appreciated!
Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst who lives in Sweden and works internationally: www.drvanessasinclair.net
Follow Dr. Vanessa Sinclair on social media:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rawsin_
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rawsin_/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drvanessasinclair23
Mastodon: https://ravenation.club/@rawsin
Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: www.renderingunconscious.org
The song at the end of the episode is "Lunacy" by Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson from the album of the same name available from Trapart Films / Highbrow Lowlife: https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com/album/lunacy-ost
Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com
Image: Tracy Morgan