

Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture
Dr. Vanessa Sinclair
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Visit Dr. Sinclair's website: https://www.drvanessasinclair.net
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Jul 19, 2021 • 55min
RU147: DR NATHAN BELL ON REFUGEES: TOWARDS A POLITICS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Dr. Nathan Bell teaches at the University of Melbourne. He has published several articles on the politics of asylum and his research focus is a combination of political theory and continental philosophy. His recent book Refugees: Towards a Politics of Responsibility is available as a book and e-book from Rowman & Littlefield: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786614186/Refugees-Towards-a-Politics-of-Responsibility
Follow him at Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nathan_Bell10
This episode also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/-ISsKLz7A0s
Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move – Reece Jones (Verso, 2017): https://www.versobooks.com/books/2516-violent-borders
Deported to Death – Jeremy Slack (University of California Press, 2019): https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520297333/deported-to-death
The Ethics of Immigration – Joseph Carens (Oxford University Press, 2013): https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ethics-of-immigration-9780199933839?cc=se&lang=en&
Parting Ways: Jewishness & the Critique of Zionism – Judith Butler (Columbia University Press, 2013): http://cup.columbia.edu/book/parting-ways/9780231146104
Eichmann In Jerusalem – Hannah Arendt
Sabina Spielrein: https://www.spielreinassociation.org/her-life-and-work
Transit (2018): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6675244/
Necropolitics – Achille Mbembe (Duke University Press, 2019): https://www.dukeupress.edu/necropolitics
Cuban artist Mary Esther Lemus: https://www.instagram.com/maryestherlemus/
Can't Get You Out Of My Head – Adam Curtis: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p093wp6h
This Is Revolution Podcast: https://www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com
Rendering Unconscious the book available from Trapart: store.trapart.net/details/00000
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The song at the end of the episode is an as yet unreleased track by Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson. You can check out our work at Bandcamp: https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com
Highbrow Lowlife and Trapart Editions: https://store.trapart.net/item/6
Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for creating the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. www.carlabrahamsson.com
Portrait of Dr. Nathan Bell:

Jul 18, 2021 • 45min
Carl Abrahamsson: Embracing Magical Realism
What exactly is Magical Realism? In this lecture I look at the benefits of gentle dislocation and other literary/magical techniques. How does it compete in our world of harsh memetic manipulations?
Photo by Vanessa Sinclair
https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl
https://www.carlabrahamsson.com
#carlabrahamsson #occulture #magicalrealism

Jul 13, 2021 • 1h 11min
RU146: DR TRACY SIDESINGER ON COMMUNITY PSYCHOANALYSIS, DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY, FEMINISM, TRANSPERSONAL
Dr. Tracy Sidesinger is a New York City-based clinical psychologist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and the founder of NYC Depth Psychology. She transforms people’s lives with a refreshingly progressive psychotherapeutic platform. Her unique psychodynamic approach considers matters of the unconscious mind as they manifest in lived life, and how individuals can shift these perceived ingrained dynamics. Within her work, Dr. Sidesinger examines dreams, the creative process, and non-denominational spirituality. https://nycdepthpsychology.org
She is the co-founder of The New York Center for Community Psychoanalysis: https://www.instagram.com/nyc.community.psychoanalysis/
Follow her at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nycdepthpsychologist/
The Museum of Motherhood: https://mommuseum.org/residencies-opportunities/
Psychotherapy Action Network: https://psian.org
Psychology and the Other conference: https://www.psychologyandtheother.com/conference-2021-schedule
Jacqueline Rose On Violence and Violence Against Women: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374284213
This episode also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/rN_usf_f2NM
You can support the podcast at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl
Thank you so much for your support!
Listen to RU96: CARLOS PADRÓN, PSYCHOANALYST ON CLINICAL WORK, RACE, CLASS & THE UNCONSCIOUS: http://www.renderingunconscious.org/psychoanalysis/ru96-carlos-padron-licensed-psychoanalyst/
Rendering Unconscious the book available from Trapart: store.trapart.net/details/00000
For links to everything visit:
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www.drvanessasinclair.net
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The song at the end of the episode is "Page 6.2" by Vanessa Sinclair from the compilation album "Coven" https://coven-compilation.bandcamp.com
Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for creating the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. www.carlabrahamsson.com
Portrait of Dr. Tracy Sidesinger: https://nycdepthpsychology.org

Jul 11, 2021 • 14min
Carl Abrahamsson – Radio Mega Golem 6 (Swedish)
Radio Mega Golem 6, med text & musik av Carl Abrahamsson, samt utdrag ur romanen CODEX NORDICA. För mer information, besök gärna:
https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl
https://www.carlabrahamsson.com/
https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com/music
https://store.trapart.net/
https://vimeo.com/carlabrahamsson/vod_pages
https://soundcloud.com/highbrowlowlife

Jul 6, 2021 • 1h 3min
RU145: DR INGO LAMBRECHT ON PSYCHOANALYSIS, PSYCHOSIS, SHAMANISM, CULTURE, SOCIETY, MENTAL HEALTH
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Dr. Ingo Lambrecht is a consultant clinical psychologist working in Auckland, New Zealand. He has worked at Manawanui, Māori Mental Health Service and has also been trained and graduated as a sangoma, a South African shaman. He has published and presented widely on the complex relationship between shamanism and psychoanalysis and is currently co-editing a book on culture and psychosis.
Read his book Sangoma Trance States: https://withoutbooks.org/products/sangoma-trance-states-9781496145536
Our paper written together Psychoanalytic and Ritual Spaces as Transitional, featuring Sangoma Trance States is included in The Fenris Wolf 8 (Trapart Books 2016): https://amzn.to/42WDcbm
Dr. Lambrecht's presentation "Wairua: Following shamanic contours in psychoanalytic therapy at a Māori Mental Health Service in New Zealand" from the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference, 2016, is included in The Fenris Wolf 9 (Trapart Books 2017): https://amzn.to/43fQUFb
Watch Dr. Ingo Lambrecht's keynote at ISPS International, March 2020: https://youtu.be/UMoIU79gBKM
This episode also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/SNAxJoNaAfs
You can support the podcast at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl
Thank you so much for your support!
Rendering Unconscious the book available from Trapart: https://store.trapart.net/details/00000
For links to everything visit: www.renderingunconscious.org
www.drvanessasinclair.net
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The song at the end of the episode is “Bring Forth Our Ancestors (Embrace Ourselves)” by Vanessa Sinclair and Per Åhlund from the album "Follow My Voice (for Hatshepsut)" available at Bandcamp: vanessasinclairperhlund.bandcamp.com
and as a limited edition CD: store.trapart.net/details/00168
Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for creating the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com
Portrait of Ingo Lambrecht: https://robertstclinic.co.nz/psychologists/ingo-lambrecht/

Jun 27, 2021 • 1h 1min
RU144: DRS AVGI SAKETOPOULOU & JONATHAN HOUSE – LAPLANCHE IN THE STATES: THE SEXUAL & THE CULTURAL
Rendering Unconscious welcomes Drs Avgi Saketopoulou & Jonathan House to the Podcast!
Be sure to check out their event Laplanche in the States, happening October 2 & 3, 2021 online: https://www.laplancheinthestates.com
Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD is a Greek and Greek-Cypriot psychoanalyst. She trained and now teaches at the NYU Postdoctoral Program, and is also on faculty at the William Allanson White Institute, the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, the Mitchell Center, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, and the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. Her just-completed book project is provisionally entitled: Risking Sexuality Beyond Consent: Race, Traumatophilia, and the Draw to Overwhelm. The book puts psychoanalysis into conversation with queer of color critique, and its second part critically engages Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play. https://www.avgisaketopoulou.com
Jonathan House, MD practices psychiatry and psychoanalysis in New York City. Dr. House teaches at Columbia University at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and at the Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He is a member of the Conseil Scientifique of the Fondation Laplanche. He is the founder and general editor of The Unconscious in Translation. https://uitbooks.com
Support the podcast at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl
Rendering Unconscious the book available from Trapart: https://store.trapart.net/details/00000
This episode also available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/NKsiG8T63rs
For links to everything visit: www.renderingunconscious.org
http://www.drvanessasinclair.net
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The song at the end of the episode is S/HE IS HER/E by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Carl Abrahamsson from the album "Loyalty Does Not End With Death" available from Ideal Recordings. https://idealrecordings.tumblr.com
Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for providing the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com
Image: Laplanche in the States

Jun 20, 2021 • 1h 14min
RU143: PSYCHOANALYST ACTIVIST DR LARA SHEEHI ON PANDEMIC, PALESTINE, INTERSECTIONALITY, COMMUNITY
Dr. Lara Sheehi is a psychologist, psychoanalytic practitioner, scholar, activist, and President-elect of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology, Division 39 of the American Psychological Association: https://www.apadivisions.org/division-39/news-events
Follow her at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/psychoanalystactivist/
Support the podcast at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl
Rendering Unconscious the book available from Trapart: https://store.trapart.net/details/00000
This episode also available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/_LaYi0JQMRE
For links to everything visit: www.renderingunconscious.org
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The song at the end of the episode is "The Secret Life of Walter MIDI" by Freudian Slit from the album Coven: https://coven-compilation.bandcamp.com
Follow Kendalle Aubra/Freudian Slit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/freudian.slit/
Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for providing the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast.
Photo of Dr. Lara Sheehi

Jun 13, 2021 • 1h 4min
RU142: Dr Vanessa Rawlings Sinclair - Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art
On this episode of Rendering Unconscious, I discuss and read some pieces from my book Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation (Routledge 2020).
Join me Saturday June 26, 1PM (19 CEST) online via Morbid Anatomy Museum as I present more from this work. See you there! https://www.morbidanatomy.org/events-tickets/scansion-in-psychoanalysis-and-art-the-cut-in-creation-a-live-online-zoom-lecture-by-dr-vanessa-sinclair
Support the podcast at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl
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The song at the end of the episode is Become by Vanessa Sinclair and Henrik Nordvargr Björkk from the album Inner Underworld: https://vanessasinclairhenriknordvargrbjrkk.bandcamp.com
Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for providing the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast.
Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair

Jun 8, 2021 • 1h 25min
RU141: FRENCH PSYCHOANALYST GENEVIÈVE MOREL PRESENTS THE UNSINKABLE FANTASY, DAS UNBEHAGEN
Geneviève Morel presents The Unsinkable Fantasy. This lecture originally presented at The New School For Social Research (NSSR) hosted by Das Unbehagen and The Psychoanalytic Workshop at NSSR on May 8, 2014. http://dasunbehagen.org/genevieve-morel-the-unsubmersible-phantasm-may-8-2014/
For more lectures like this, visit the Recordings and Writings sections of http://dasunbehagen.org
Geneviève Morel is a psychoanalyst in Paris and Lille. She’s a Member of CRIMIC (Paris-Sorbonne) and CFAR (London), President of Savoirs et clinique and Collège de Psychanalystes- A.l.e.p.h. She directs a clinical seminar in l’UHSA (CHU-Lille). Her books include Ambiguïtés sexuelles. Sexuation et psychose (2000), published in English as Sexual Ambiguities (2011); Clinique du suicide, (Érès, 2002/2010); L'œuvre de Freud. L'invention de la psychanalyse, (2006); La loi de la mère. Essai sur le sinthome sexuel (2008), published in German as Das gesetz der Mutter (2017) and forthcoming in English in 2017.
Manya Steinkoler, Ph.D. is an English Professor at Borough of Manhattan College CUNY and a psychoanalyst in New York City. She is co-editor with Patricia Gherovici of Lacan on Madness: Madness Yes You Can’t (Routledge, 2015), Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and forthcoming Psychoanalysis and Sexuality: From Feminism to Trans (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Geneviève Morel contributed a chapter to the anthology On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge) edited by Vanessa Sinclair and Manya Steinkoler. https://www.routledge.com/On-Psychoanalysis-and-Violence-Contemporary-Lacanian-Perspectives/Sinclair-Steinkoler/p/book/9781138346338
The full text of The Unsinkable Fantasy was published in The European Journal of Psychoanalysis: https://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/the-unsinkable-fantasy/
A video of this lecture is available to view: https://vimeo.com/96243882
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, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. Episodes are also created from lectures given at various international conferences: http://www.drvanessasinclair.net
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Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart, 2019): store.trapart.net/details/00000
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The song at the end of the episode is The Chapel Is Empty from the album of the same name by Vanessa Sinclair and Akoustik Timbre Frekuency.
Available via Trapart Editions: https://store.trapart.net/item/6
and Bandcamp: https://vanessasinclairakoustiktimbrefrekuency.bandcamp.com
Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast: https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com
Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair: https://store.trapart.net/item/4

Jun 1, 2021 • 52min
RU140: Folklorist Jesse Hathaway Diaz presents Apocalypti/c/orazon at Re-writing the Future
Jesse Hathaway Diaz presents Apocalypti/c/orazon at Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism and Psychoanalysis, at Schloss Pienzenau, Merano, Italy, May 31, 2019.
Jesse Hathaway Diaz is a folklorist, diviner, artist and performer living in New York City. He has a MA in Performance Studies and initiations in several forms of witchcraft from both Europe and the Americas, he is also a lifelong student of Mexican Curanderismo, a priest of Obatalá in the Lucumí orisha tradition, and a Tatá Quimbanda. He is also a member of the experimental theatre group Dzieci, based in New York City. He is the goat-half of http://www.wolf-and-goat.com a store specializing in occult art, esoterica and materia magica from many traditions including Traditional Craft and Quimbanda. His blog can be found at http://www.serpentshod.com His writings have been published by Scarlet Imprint and by Revelore Press, where he also co-edits the Folk Necromancy in Transmission Series. Along with Dr. Al Cummins, he is a co-host of the Radio Free Golgotha podcast. http://www.radiofreegolgotha.com
This talk may be viewed at YouTube: https://youtu.be/6YJq7KWG96I
The full panel may also be viewed at YouTube: https://youtu.be/lJlQanQnIbw
For links to everything visit: www.renderingunconscious.org
You can support the podcast at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl
Thank you so much for your support!
The song at the end of the episode is Inner Underworld by Vanessa Sinclair and Henrik Nordvargr Björkk from the album of the same name: https://vanessasinclairhenriknordvargrbjrkk.bandcamp.com
Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for providing the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast.