Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

Episode 206 of Rendering Unconscious Podcast. Melissa Diaz is an artist, activist and a licensed, registered, board-certified art therapist. She holds a BFA in Painting from The University of Central Florida, an MPS in Art Therapy & Creativity Development from Pratt Institute and a certificate in Integrated Mental Health/Addiction Treatment. Melissa has 10 years of experience as a Creative Arts Therapist, working as a primary therapist, group therapist and program assistant director. She has utilized art therapy in a variety of settings, including inpatient and outpatient mental health, family shelters, schools and museums. Through these experiences, Melissa has had the opportunity to support, individuals experiencing difficulties with depression, anxiety, trauma, mental illness, developmental disorders, addiction, familial issues, life transitions, and stigmatization. Melissa practices an eclectic art therapy approach, utilizing Humanistic, Attachment, and Behavioral frameworks, tailoring each therapeutic experience to meet the client or group where they are at. Throughout all her work, she weaves in mindfulness practice and self-compassion. In addition to her therapeutic practice, Melissa founded Open House BK (est. 2010), a Brooklyn-based, community arts initiative that provides affordable pop-up events, emerging artist exhibitions, and therapeutic workshops. Open House strives to shed light on the arts and community as integral for social justice, personal healing and progress. https://www.instagram.com/openhousebk/ https://www.instagram.com/m_diaz_art/ Donate to Open House BK to help them become a New York State continuing education provider. https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=NKUW798V4LA8S&fbclid=IwAR3Db3_Ok0x_70Uk11Uc5TEN4qWWij0Zy07cJuChQr-OUdjZkJSH0-zw72o This discussion available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/xpVUd74vHdU 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. Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works internationally. If you enjoy what we’re doing, please support the podcast at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl For more info visit: www.drvanessasinclair.net www.trapart.net www.renderingunconscious.org The song at the end of the episode is “Let Her In” from the album “Night of the Hunter” by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy available from Highbrow Lowlife: https://vanessasinclairpetemurphy.bandcamp.com Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for the intro and outro music for RU Podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Image: Art by Melissa Diaz https://www.melissadiazart.com

Episode 205 of Rendering Unconscious Podcast. Katy Bohinc presents "Poetry as Magic" at Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism and Psychoanalysis. Collected papers from this conference have just been published as The Fenris Wolf 11: https://store.trapart.net/details/00184 Katy Bohinc: http://www.katybohinc.com/bio Katy also presented at Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference, London 2016. Collected papers from that conference are The Fenris Wolf 9: https://store.trapart.net/details/00180 Katy will be presenting at our upcoming conference Visionary Medium: Psychoanalysis and the Magic of Cinema, October 14-16, 2022 in Copenhagen: http://psychartcult.org/visionary-medium-psychoanalysis-and-the-magic-of-cinema-copenhagen-2022/ Join us! PayPal $150 to sinclairvanessa (at) gmail (dot) com Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart 2019): store.trapart.net/details/00000 Support the podcast at: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl For more info visit: www.drvanessasinclair.net www.trapart.net www.renderingunconscious.org http://psychartcult.org The song at the end of the episode is from the Lunacy soundtrack by Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson, available from Highbrow Lowlife. https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com/album/lunacy-ost Thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for creating the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Image: Katy Bohinc performing Trinity Star Trinity. Photo by Carl Abrahamsson

Episode 204 of Rendering Unconscious Podcast. Carl Abrahamsson presents “Reconnecting with the Anima Mundi” Is there such a thing as a ”world soul”? The concept of an ”anima mundi” has followed us through history in various cultural and regional guises and seems unwilling to disappear. Whereas physiological, mental, cultural and other developments constantly morph based on adaption to our biospheric demands, the concept of a world soul has taken on new descriptive forms but seems to remain essentially the same. Who or what can teach us about these things today? We can of course read and study and wallow through tons of learned regurgitations of other regurgitations, with further footnotes to drastically add to weight of the planet. But it seems obvious that all sources point in the same direction: the absolutely necessary connection between the individual inner and the general, ”cosmic” outer. Join Carl Abrahamsson as he talks about the background of the concept, its future and that of our own existence. Everything and everyone is linked! Thank you. If you liked this lecture, you will enjoy Carl Abrahamsson’s books. Carl Abrahamsson is a Swedish author, specializing in Occulture and Magico-anthropology. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Join us for Visionary Medium: Psychoanalysis and the Magic of Cinema: http://psychartcult.org/visionary-medium-psychoanalysis-and-the-magic-of-cinema-copenhagen-2022/ Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart 2019): store.trapart.net/details/00000 For more info visit: www.drvanessasinclair.net www.trapart.net www.renderingunconscious.org http://psychartcult.org The song at the end of the episode is We will be (outside the box) from the album The Cutting Up of Love and Language by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy, available from Highbrow Lowlife. https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com Thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for creating the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Image: Carl Abrahamsson

Episode 203 of Rendering Unconscious Podcast. Artist Charlotte Rodgers presents "Spiritual Evolution: For the Masses or for the Few?" at the second Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference, Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism & Psychoanalysis, held in Merano, Italy, 2019. http://psychartcult.org/re-writing-the-future-merano-2019/ If you enjoy what we’re doing, please support the podcast at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Join us for the next Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult event at Morbid Anatomy museum online Sunday, July 17, 2022 at 2PM. https://www.morbidanatomy.org/events-tickets/the-atavistic-network-by-charlotte-rodgers-and-necromancy-working-with-blood-and-adopted-ancestors-in-art-and-magic-by-dr-vanessa-sinclair Charlotte Roders is an author, artist and animist who is presently exploring an academic wormhole as an anthropology student at Bristol University. She has been widely published in magazines and anthologies and her books include, The Sky is A Gateway, Not a Ceiling, P is for Prostitution, and The Bloody Sacrifice. Her art incorporates remnants of death and discarded objects and has been exhibited widely, including shows in New York and London, and she has sculptures on permanent display at the Museum of Naive and Marginal Art in Serbia. Charlotte has spoken at conferences and venues globally, including ‘The Magickal Women Conference’ in London 2019, ‘Rewriting the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism and Psychoanalysis’ in Merano, Italy and ‘The Left Hand Path Symposium’ in 2020. A filmic exhibition of her work was recently created for Cambridge University’s CRASSH Magic and Ecology Symposium. http://charlotte-rodgers-caya.squarespace.com Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart 2019): store.trapart.net/details/00000 For more info visit: www.drvanessasinclair.net www.trapart.net www.renderingunconscious.org The song at the end of the episode is Follow My Voice (For Hatshepsut) by Vanessa Sinclair and Per Åhlund. https://vanessasinclairperhlund.bandcamp.com Thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for creating the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Image: Artwork by Charlotte Rodgers. http://charlotte-rodgers-caya.squarespace.com

Episode 202 of Rendering Unconscious Podcast. Alkistis Dimech presents "The Occulted Body" from the first Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference, London, 2016. Collected papers from the conference can be found in The Fenris Wolf 9 edited by Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson: https://store.trapart.net/details/00026 More info at: http://psychartcult.org/psychoanalysis-art-the-occult-london-2016/ Dimech is a writer and artist – working principally with dance and the body. Her practice is grounded in butô (dark dance), exploring the occulted dimensions of the body, its subtle anatomy and sexuality as an archaeology of the flesh – drawing from the esoteric and phenomenological traditions – and seeks to unfold a process and techne of bodily spiritual transformation. With Peter Grey, she is the co-founder of Scarlet Imprint: https://scarletimprint.com Selected works from 2008 to 2018 are documented in The Brazen Vessel. https://scarletimprint.com/publications/p/the-brazen-vessel If you enjoy what we’re doing, please support the podcast at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Join us for the next Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult event at Morbid Anatomy museum online Sunday, July 17, 2022 at 2PM. https://www.morbidanatomy.org/events-tickets/the-atavistic-network-by-charlotte-rodgers-and-necromancy-working-with-blood-and-adopted-ancestors-in-art-and-magic-by-dr-vanessa-sinclair Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart 2019): store.trapart.net/details/00000 For more info visit: www.drvanessasinclair.net www.trapart.net www.renderingunconscious.org The song at the end of the episode is The Scarlet Woman (remix) by Vanessa Sinclair and Xambuca from the album Message 23: https://vanessasinclair.bandcamp.com Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for the intro and outro music for the podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Image: Alkistis Dimech on the cover of The Brazen Vessel

Episode 201 of Rendering Unconscious Podcast. Manya Steinkoler and I discuss our book On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives: https://www.routledge.com/On-Psychoanalysis-and-Violence-Contemporary-Lacanian-Perspectives/Sinclair-Steinkoler/p/book/9781138346338 This talk presented virtually at the 40th annual conference of APA Division 39: https://division39springmeeting.net If you enjoy what we’re doing, please support the podcast at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart 2019): store.trapart.net/details/00000 For more info visit: www.drvanessasinclair.net www.trapart.net www.renderingunconscious.org The song at the end of the episode is My Consciousness Changes by Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson from the album The Pathways of the Heart: https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for the intro and outro music for the podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Image: cover of book On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives: https://www.routledge.com/On-Psychoanalysis-and-Violence-Contemporary-Lacanian-Perspectives/Sinclair-Steinkoler/p/book/9781138346338

Vanessa & Carl talk about all the recent and upcoming projects they have been/are involved in. Also available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/TtSr3vO8WYM Here are some relevant links from the episode: Carl’s new book Codex Nordica is available here: https://store.trapart.net/details/00183 With cover art by Swedish artist River : Gabriella Eriksson: https://river-artefacts.com https://www.instagram.com/gabriellaeriver_/ River is interviewed at Trapartisan Radio: http://highbrow-lowlife.com/trapartisan-radio/ Trapartisan Review: https://store.trapart.net/details/00179 And will be presenting at Visionary Medium: Psychoanalysis and the Magic of Cinema, Copenhagen, October 14-16, 2022: http://psychartcult.org/visionary-medium-psychoanalysis-and-the-magic-of-cinema-copenhagen-2022/ Carl has a new photo book as well, Free of the Darkness: https://store.trapart.net/details/00182 Stay in our cottage! Airbnb: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/53828420 As always the best way to keep in touch is at our Patreon community! https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carlArt + Magick retreat with Jake Kobrin in Bali! DM Jake for more details: https://www.instagram.com/_.kobrin._/ Morbid Anatomy: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/events http://psychartcult.org/psychartcult-residency-at-morbid-anatomy-museum-2021/ June 19 with Langston Kahn and David Shi: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/events-tickets/animism-for-apocalypse-by-langston-kahn-and-spirit-voices-the-mysteries-and-magic-of-north-asian-shamanic-traditions-by-david-shi July 17 with Charlotte Rodgers and Vanessa Sinclair: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/events-tickets/the-atavistic-network-by-charlotte-rodgers-and-necromancy-working-with-blood-and-adopted-ancestors-in-art-and-magic-by-dr-vanessa-sinclair 2 new albums with Peter Murphy and Vanessa Sinclair out from Highbrow Lowlife! https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com Night of the Hunter: https://vanessasinclairpetemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/night-of-the-hunter The Sexual is Provocative: https://vanessasinclairpetemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/the-sexual-is-provocative Steven Cline: https://www.instagram.com/stevenclineart/ AMOK! https://store.trapart.net/details/00181 Interview with Carl and Vanessa at Fruit of the Spirit Magazine: https://fruitofthespiritmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/06/be-clear-in-admitting-your-real-desires.html#more Carl has been on many podcasts discussing his new book Anton LaVey and The Church of Satan: https://www.innertraditions.com/books/anton-lavey-and-the-church-of-satan Visit Carl’s website and sign up for his newsletter: https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Sign up for Vanessa’s newsletter: http://www.drvanessasinclair.net Check out Radio Panik: https://www.radiopanik.org Aisha Shehu-Ansell / Maison Shehu: https://www.instagram.com/aisha.shehu.ansell/ https://www.instagram.com/maisonshehu/ Fulgur Books: https://www.instagram.com/fulgur.press/ Mary Wild: https://www.patreon.com/marywild/ https://www.freud.org.uk/event/projections-shrinks-on-screen/ https://www.projectionspodcast.com https://twitter.com/psycstar https://www.instagram.com/psycstar/ Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos: https://www.facebook.com/lupe.vasconcelos https://www.instagram.com/luciferovs/ https://twitter.com/luciferovs Vanessa's dress by https://sissel-edelbo.com

Swedish artist Gabriella River Eriksson talks to Carl Abrahamsson about art and her work in general, about her contributions to THE TRAPARTISAN REVIEW and the cover of Carl’s novel CODEX NORDICA specifically, as well as her presentation at the upcoming “Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult” conference in Copenhagen in October 2022. http://river-artefacts.com/ https://store.trapart.net/ https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl http://www.psychartcult.org

Rendering Unconscious celebrates 200 episodes! With Dr. Lara Sheehi taking over as host and interviewing Dr. Vanessa Sinclair. Dr. Lara Sheehi is a psychologist, psychoanalytic practitioner, scholar, activist, and President-elect of APA, Division 39. Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works internationally. If you enjoy what we’re doing, please support the podcast at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl For more info visit: www.drvanessasinclair.net www.trapart.net www.renderingunconscious.org The song at the end of the episode is "The primary power of sound" by Vanessa Sinclair & Per Åhlund from the album "Follow my voice (for Hatshepsut)" available from Highbrow Lowlife: https://vanessasinclairperhlund.bandcamp.com Also available as a limited edition cd with original collage art: https://store.trapart.net/item/6 Image: Vanessa having fun at Coney Island. Photo by Carl Abrahamsson

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Dr. Bret Fimiani to the podcast! He is here to discuss his new book Psychosis and Extreme States: An Ethic for Treatment (The Palgrave Lacan Series): https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-75440-2 Bret Fimiani is faculty, board member and psychoanalyst of the San Francisco Bay Area Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, USA, and a clinical psychologist. He works with people experiencing psychosis and extreme states in his private practice in Oakland, CA and at the Haight-Ashbury Integrated Care Center in San Francisco. His research interests include adapting the Lacanian analytic frame for the treatment of psychosis and extreme states. Founded in 1990, the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis offers a transmission of psychoanalysis through a savoir of the unconscious, built gradually in personal analysis and control analyses. These direct experiences of the unconscious, alongside an immersion in theory through seminars, events, reading groups, and cartels, inform ethical practices of analysis and scholarship. https://www.lacanschool.com Join me Monday, May 30th at ABF Stockholm! I will be joining Dany Nobus for a discussion on Group Pathology and the Analysis of the Ego: On the Dissolution of Psychoanalytic Organisations and the Question of Psychoanalytic Training: https://abfstockholm.se/evenemang/dany-nobus-group-pathology-and-the-analysis-of-the-ego/ If you enjoy what we’re doing, please support the podcast at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl For more info visit: www.drvanessasinclair.net www.dasunbehagen.org www.trapart.net www.renderingunconscious.org The song at the end of the episode is "Inventing collaborations" by Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson from the albums Switching/ Mirrors available from Highbrow-Lowlife: https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com Also available as a 2CD boxset from Trapart Editions, which includes original artwork by yours truly. https://store.trapart.net/item/6 Image: book cover