Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

A conversation between Carl Abrahamsson and gnostic priestess and author Billie Steigerwald about her work and interests: gnosticism, qualitative intelligence, hermetic qabalah, initiatory breaking points, neoplatonism and much more. https://store.trapart.net/ https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl

Rendering Unconscious episode 235. Steve Dee is a Systemic Psychotherapist working in the NHS within the field of mental health social work. He is the author of A Gnostic’s Progress: Magic and the Path of Awakening and The Heretic’s Journey: Spiritual Freethinking for Difficult Times. He is also the co-author (with Julian Vayne) of the book Chaos Craft. After a near miss with the Anglican Priesthood, he focused his energies on more occult pursuits that have included work within the east/west tantra group AMOOKOS and the Chaos Magic current. His current interest in Gnosticism represents an attempt to explore the way in which joys of heretical freethinking can be harnessed for the benefit of all. He is here to talk about his newest book Chaos Monk. He blogs at https://theblogofbaphomet.com https://youtu.be/pUkiGd1HreU You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated! Join Steve Dee and Julian Vayne live via zoom at Treadwell’s London on May 25th for Chaos Squared: https://www.treadwells-london.com/events-1/chaos-squared-julian-vayne-and-steve-dee-in-conversation Mentioned in this episode: New Camaldoli Hermitage: https://www.contemplation.com Join us Sunday, April 16th via Morbid Anatomy Museum, live via zoom – Westworld: Anton LaVey’s Total Environments, Gamification and Ghosts in the Machines with Anders Lundgren and Caligula as a Dionysian Affirmation of Life with River, An Online Presentation: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/events-tickets/westworld-anton-laveys-total-environments-gamification-and-ghosts-in-the-machines-with-anders-lundgren-and-caligula-as-a-dionysian-affirmationof-life-by-river-an-online-presenation Beginning September 10th via Morbid Anatomy Museum, live via zoom – Harnessing the Magic and Creative Power of the Cut-up Method a la William Burroughs, David Bowie, Genesis P-Orridge, Led by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/harnessing-the-magic-and-creative-power-of-the-cut-up-method-a-la-william-burroughs-david-bowie-genesis-p-orridge-dr-vanessa-sinclair-and-carl-abrahamsson Check out our previous discussion: RU153: STEVE DEE ON SYSTEMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY, NHS, CHAOS MAGIC, GNOSTICISM: http://www.renderingunconscious.org/art/ru153-steve-dee-on-systemic-psychotherapy-nhs-chaos-magic/ 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 "Resonant" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy from the album of "Variation of chaos". 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

Rendering Unconscious episode 234. Drs. Derek Hook and Stijn Vanheule are here to discuss their new book Lacan on Depression and Melancholia (2023). https://www.routledge.com/Lacan-on-Depression-and-Melancholia/Hook-Vanheule/p/book/9781032106533 Derek Hook is an associate professor of Psychology at Duquesne University, USA, and an extraordinary professor of Psychology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is the author of Six Moments in Lacan (2018), and with Calum Neill, he edits the Palgrave Lacan Series. Be sure to check out his YouTube channel. Stijn Vanheule is a clinical psychologist and professor at Ghent University, Belgium. He is also a privately practicing psychoanalyst and a member of the New Lacanian School for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective (2011), Diagnosis, the DSM: A Critical Review (2014), and Psychiatric Diagnosis Revisited: From DSM to Clinical Case Formulation (2017). 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/6yAe_Qk1tkA Be sure to check out the Reading Lacan’s Ecrits book series edited by Derek Hook, Stijn Vanheule, and Calum Neill. Reading Lacan’s Écrits: From ‘Signification of the Phallus’ to ‘Metaphor of the Subject’ (2018) Reading Lacan’s Écrits: From ‘The Freudian Thing’ to ‘Remarks on Daniel Lagache’ (2019) Reading Lacan’s Écrits: From ‘Logical Time’ to ‘Response to Jean Hyppolite’ (2022) Listen to previous discussions with Drs. Hook and Vanheule: RU30: PROFESSOR STIJN VANHEULE, PSYCHOANALYST & PSYCHOLOGIST ON DSM, TREATMENT RU42: PROFESSOR DEREK HOOK ON POST-COLONIAL PSYCHOANALYSIS, PHILOSOPHY RU159: SHELDON GEORGE, DEREK HOOK, MICHELLE STEPHENS & SHEILA CAVANAGH ON LACAN & RACE 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 “Inside you is outside me (Hymnambulae Remix)” from Carl Abrahamsson’s album The larval stage of a bookworm (remixed). 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

Rendering Unconscious episode 233. Mary Wild is a self-described 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. Join Mary at Patreon where she creates exclusive content every week. https://www.patreon.com/marywild/posts She contributed the Foreword to Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (2023) edited by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair. https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalytic-Perspectives-on-the-Films-of-Ingmar-Bergman-From-Freud-to/Sinclair/p/book/9781032060071 Follow her at Twitter: @psycstar Instagram: @psycstar Join us Sunday, March 12, 2023, 2PM NYC / 6PM UK / 19 CET at Morbid Anatomy Museum, live via zoom – David Bowie Music Videos and Filmography: A Live, Online Presentation with Mary Wild, Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, and Carl Abrahamsson: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/events 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 "I've encountered you" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy from the album of "Variation of chaos". 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: David Bowie

Rendering Unconscious episode 231. Patricia Gherovici, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst, analytic supervisor, and recipient of the 2020 Sigourney Award for her clinical and scholarly work with Latinx and gender variant communities. Patricia Gherovici and Manya Steinkoler have edited two volumes: Lacan On Madness: Madness Yes You Can’t ( Routledge: 2015) and Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy (Cambridge University Press: 2016). Their collection Psychoanalysis, Gender and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans* was published in November 2022. Manya Steinkoler, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and a professor in the Department of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College. This episode also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/DidZ5vVOruI 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 "There is only one libido" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy from the album of "This is voyeurism". 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

Rendering Unconscious episode 230. Dr. Sabina Stent is a freelance writer and speaker specialising in Women Surrealists and visual culture. She is interested in how feminists-surrealists explored the body, the cinematic, the uncanny, and Surrealism in Los Angeles. Sabina’s bylines include Magnum Photos, Crime Reads, and AnOther Magazine, and she writes a Substack newsletter called Love Letters During a Nightmare. https://sabinastent.com Follow her at Twitter https://twitter.com/SabinaStent Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sabinastent/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sabinastent This episode also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/UbxPIY1iAXs Join us Sunday, February 19 at 2PM EST (7PM UK / 20 CET) for The Bloody Countess: Valentine Penrose, Erzsébet Báthory, and Sanguineous Surrealism: A Live, Online Lecture with Dr. Sabina Stent, Dr. Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson https://www.morbidanatomy.org/events-tickets/the-bloody-countess-valentine-penrose-erzsbet-bthory-and-sanguineous-surrealism-a-live-online-lecture-with-dr-sabina-stent 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 "Sexuality is fluid" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy from the album of "This is voyeurism". 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: Dr Sabina Stent

Rendering Unconscious episode 229. Dr. Carter J. Carter is here to present his recent article "All the Rage: The Whiteness of Psychoanalysis, and What It Cannot Dare to See" published in The Psychoanalyst Activist, the online newsletter for Section IX, Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility, Society of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (Division 39), of the American Psychological Association. https://psychoanalyticactivist.com/2023/01/27/all-the-rage-the-whiteness-of-psychoanalysis-and-what-it-cannot-dare-to-see/ Carter J. Carter Ph.D, LICSW received his BA in Cultural Anthropology and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies from New York University, MSW from the Simmons University School of Social Work, and Ph.D from the Smith College School for Social Work. He also earned a post-graduate certificate in psychoanalytic psychotherapy from the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and a Lecturer in the Doctorate in Clinical Social Work program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice. https://carterjcarter.com Read "On Targeting an Arab Woman" by Dr. Lara Sheehi. https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/02/03/on-targeting-an-arab-woman/ 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 from Lunacy (OST) by Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson. https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com/album/lunacy-ost The film Lunacy is available to view on Vimeo on Demand. https://store.trapart.net/details/00016 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: Dr. Carter

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

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

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