Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

This episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast is a panel from the Psychology of Global Crises conference #PGC2020 held May 2020 hosted by American University Paris. This panel is Connection and Community Through Technology with Panelists: Vanessa Sinclair, Hannah Zeavin, Isabel Millar, Jamie Steele and Jacob Johanssen. This panel is available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/HF8zYumZeKk For more about this conference listen to RU98: https://soundcloud.com/highbrowlowlife/ru98-irene-strasser-and-martin-dege-on-crisis-talk-psychology-of-global-crises-2020 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: www.drvanessasinclair.net Rendering Unconscious Podcast can be found at Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo… Please visit www.renderingunconscious.org/about for links to all of these sites. Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart, 2019): store.trapart.net/details/00000 You can support the podcast at: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated. The song at the end of the episode is "Canned Pittsburgh Kicks 2" from the album "Future Moon" Vanessa Sinclair with Jillian Street/ Damages. https://vanessasinclairjillianstreetdamages.bandcamp.com Also available as a limited edition CD boxset through Trapart Editions: https://store.trapart.net/item/6 Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for creating the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. Art by Vanessa Sinclair

Brianna Suslovic is a Licensed Master Social Worker with a background in community organizing, racial justice and equity work, clinical social work, psychotherapy, and wellness support. https://briannasuslovic.com She is facilitating a 4 week course Situating Abolition, which begins Sunday June 6. For more information and to register visit: https://briannasuslovic.com/courses-study-groups/ Follow her at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/briannasuslovic/ This episode is also available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/vLVep7MutWA 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: www.drvanessasinclair.net Rendering Unconscious Podcast can be found at Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo… Please visit www.renderingunconscious.org/about for links to all of these sites. Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart, 2019): store.trapart.net/details/00000 You can support the podcast at: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated. The song at the end of the episode is "Follow My Voice (for Hatshepsut)" by Vanessa Sinclair and Per Åhlund from the album of the same name. Available at Bandcamp: https://vanessasinclairperhlund.bandcamp.com and as a limited edition CD: https://store.trapart.net/details/00168 Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for creating the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. Portrait of Brianna Suslovic: https://briannasuslovic.com

Welcome to episode 9 of 23rd Mind TV! Join us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Episode 9 of 23rd Mind TV by and with Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson. "What are we working on right now, and how and why? Plus mentions of new work by our many friends, like Vicki Bennett, Susana Vico Valero, Henrik Björkk, Adel Souto, Andrew McLuhan, and more..." https://youtu.be/sRn23IFABAQ Many thanks to our Patreon patrons for making 23rd Mind TV possible! And gratitude to everyone who supported Carl's AN ART APART – NUMBER ONE fundraising campaign. The book and film are in the works! Check out Carl's AN ART APART film on Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us: https://vimeo.com/carlabrahamsson/vod_pages Different People: https://store.trapart.net/details/00118 Temporarily Eternal: https://store.trapart.net/details/00169 The Mega Golem: A Womanual for All Times and Spaces: https://store.trapart.net/details/00117 The Pathways of the Heart: https://store.trapart.net/details/00172 Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: https://www.routledge.com/Scansion-in-Psychoanalysis-and-Art-The-Cut-in-Creation/Sinclair/p/book/9780367567262 FanzinEra Expanded: https://store.trapart.net/details/00171 In Too Deep: https://store.trapart.net/details/00173 Follow My Voice with Per Åhlund: https://store.trapart.net/details/00168 Bandcamp: https://vanessasinclairperhlund.bandcamp.com Be sure to check out the work of our friends: Adel Souto aka 156: http://adelsouto.com Bandcamp: https://onefivesix.bandcamp.com Henrik Björkk aka Nordvargr: https://www.nordvargr.com Bandcamp: https://nordvargr.bandcamp.com Susana Vico Valero aka Susan Atkins: https://www.instagram.com/susan__atkins/ Thee Psychic Shop: https://www.instagram.com/theepsychicshop/ Andrew McLuhan: https://www.patreon.com/mcluhan The McLuhan Institute: https://www.themcluhaninstitute.com Revelore Press: https://revelore.press Link to Vanessa's interview with Andrew McLuhan for The Massage: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/massage-presented-by-mcluhan-institute-s1-ep2-vanessa/id1524357056?i=1000512828374 Gary Lachman: https://garylachman.co.uk The Fenris Wolf vol 9 with limited edition signed print: https://store.trapart.net/details/00026 We're celebrating 5 years of PsychArtCult: http://psychartcult.org Link to latest episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast: http://www.renderingunconscious.org Link to our albums Switching / Mirrors: https://store.trapart.net/details/00111 Bandcamp: https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com/album/mirrors Relevant links: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl http://www.drvanessasinclair.net https://www.carlabrahamsson.com https://store.trapart.net https://www.trapartfilm.com https://vimeo.com/carlabrahamsson/vod_pages http://www.renderingunconscious.org http://highbrow-lowlife.com https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com http://psychartcult.org

Dr Isabel Millar is a philosopher and cultural critic. Her work focuses on AI, sex, culture, film and the future. Her book The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence is recently published with the Palgrave Lacan Series. She is currently a research fellow at The Centre for Critical Thought, the University of Kent. Website: https://www.isabelmillar.com/ New Book: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030679804#aboutBook Twitter: https://twitter.com/IsabelVMillar Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/izviolet/ 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: www.drvanessasinclair.net You can support the podcast at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Thank you so much for your support! Rendering Unconscious Podcast can be found at Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo… Please visit www.renderingunconscious.org/about for links to all of these sites. Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart, 2019): store.trapart.net/details/00000 The track at the end of the episode is "A gown made of flesh" from the album "Follow my voice" by Vanessa Sinclair and Per Åhlund available digitally at Bandcamp: https://vanessasinclairperhlund.bandcamp.com/album/follow-my-voice And as a limited edition CD (edition of 23) with original collage, available from Trapart Editions: https://store.trapart.net/details/00168 Intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast by Carl Abrahamsson: https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Image: Dr. Isabel Milliar

Amy Gaeta is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She takes a transdisciplinary approach by bringing together critical disability studies, feminist science and technology, and visual culture studies to understand the present and prospective roles of A.I., automation, and robots. Her dissertation, Drone Life: A Feminist Crip Analysis of the Human examines positive affects toward drones to theorize how drones are changing what it means to be human. Her next project examines A.I.’s role in the treatment of mental illness and cognitive disabilities within the global mental health crisis. https://aegaeta.wixsite.com/website Follow her at Twitter: https://twitter.com/GaetaAmy And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amy_gaeta/ This episode is also available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/YcIJ-ZpS16o 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: www.drvanessasinclair.net Rendering Unconscious Podcast can be found at Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo… Please visit www.renderingunconscious.org/about for links to all of these sites. Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart, 2019): store.trapart.net/details/00000 You can support the podcast at: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated. The song at the end of the episode is "A Vehicle" from the album "The Pathways of the Heart (For Jess)" by Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson: https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for creating the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. Portrait of Amy Gaeta by David Knight https://aegaeta.wixsite.com/website

Rendering Unconscious Podcast welcomes Dr. Robert K. Beshara, critical psychologist interested in theorizing subjectivity vis-a-vis ideology through radical qualitative research (ie discourse analysis). In addition to being a scholar-activist, Dr. Beshara is a fine artist with a background in film, theater, and music. He holds two terminal degrees: a PhD in Psychology: Consciousness and Society from the University of West Georgia, and an MFA in Independent Film and Digital Imaging from Governors State University, Illinois. He currently works as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Northern New Mexico College. His books include Freud and Said: Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis, Critical Psychology Praxis: Psychosocial Non-Alignment to Modernity/Coloniality, Decolonial Psychoanalysis: Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies, and A Critical Introduction to Psychology. For more information please visit www.robertbeshara.com Between April 1st and July 1st, 2021, a 20% discount is applicable across all formats of the book Freud and Said: Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis upon checkout on the Palgrave website using the discount code FreudSaid20 https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030567422 Egyptian philosopher Mourad Wahba's website: https://www.mouradwahba.com/#/ 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: www.drvanessasinclair.net Rendering Unconscious Podcast can be found at Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo… Please visit www.renderingunconscious.org/about for links to all of these sites. Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart, 2019): store.trapart.net/details/00000 You can support the podcast at: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated. For more information visit: www.robertbeshara.com www.trapart.net www.drvanessasinclair.net www.renderingunconscious.org www.dasunbehagen.org The track at the end of the episode is "Nobody Expects the Lacanian Inquisition" by Robert Beshara: https://soundcloud.com/kmtpodcast/nobody-expects-the-lacanian-inquisition Image of Freud and Said

On this episode of Rendering Unconscious, Philosopher Simon Critchley presents "Infinitely Demanding: Politics of Resistance, Ethics of Commitment" to Das Unbehagen - A Free Association for Psychoanalysis at The New School for Social Research on April 18, 2013. You can watch this lecture + Q&A: http://dasunbehagen.org/simon-critchley-das-unbehagen-ethics-of-commitment/ You can support the podcast at our Patreon. Your support is greatly appreciated: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl “It is at this intensely situational, indeed local level that the atomising, expropriating force of neo-liberal globalisation is to be met, contested and resisted. That is, resistance begins by occupying and controlling the terrain upon which one stands, where one lives, works, acts and thinks. This needn’t involve millions of people. It needn’t even involve thousands. It could involve just a few at first. Resistance can be intimate and can begin in small affinity groups. The art of politics consists in weaving such cells of resistance together into a common front, a shared political subjectivity. What is going to allow for the formation of such a political subjectivity – the hegemonic glue, if you will – is an appeal to universality, whether the demand for political representation, equality of treatment or whatever. It is the hope, indeed the wager, of this book that the ethical demand – the infinite responsibility that both constitutes and divides my subjectivity – might allow that hegemonic glue to set into the compact, self-aware, fighting force that motivates the subject into the political action.” – Simon Critchley, Infinitely Demanding For more visit: http://dasunbehagen.org http://www.drvanessasinclair.net http://www.renderingunconscious.org The song at the end of the episode is “Present and Future within its Invisible Walls” by Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson from the album “The Pathways of the Heart” available from Highbrow Lowlife. https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com Vanessa Sinclair's book of cut-up poetry and collages "The Pathways of the Heart" was recently published by Trapart Books: https://store.trapart.net/details/00172 Photo of Simon Critchley

This episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast is a lecture by Carl Abrahamsson entitled "The Magic of Dreams Made Real". This webinar/online lecture was originally held for the Society of Sentience on December 17, 2017. Available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/KoMhbvBcjOo Join us at https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl In our contemporary culture the dream sphere has been moved to a mystical and stigmatised corner. A sphere which we usually try to understand by simplified interpretation models and a superstitious rationality. In this lecture, Carl Abrahamsson challenges hierarchic models of interpretation and encourages a more artistic and intuitive approach to our dreams. Are our dreams perhaps messages, and, if so, messages from whom? The OCCULTURE webinar/lecture series 2017 “Art, magic, and the occult have been intimately linked since our prehistoric ancestors created the first cave paintings some 50,000 years ago. As civilizations developed, these esoteric forces continued to drive culture forward, both visibly and behind the scenes, from the Hermetic ideas of the Renaissance, to the ethereal worlds of 19th century Symbolism, to the occult interests of the Surrealists. In this lecture/webinar series exploring “occulture” – the liminal space where art and magic meet – I reveal the integral role played by magic and occultism in the development of culture throughout history as well as their relevance to the continuing survival of art and creativity. Blending magical history and esoteric philosophy, I look at the phenomena and people who have been seminal in modern esoteric developments.” – Carl Abrahamsson https://www.carlabrahamsson.com https://www.trapartfilm.com 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 S/HE IS HER/E was recently featured in the FENDI Fall/Winter 2021-2022 runway show: https://www.fendi.com/se/woman/highlights/fall-winter-2021-22-collection?fbclid=IwAR3mu8HgKedozMeQchbb6UpD035QUliUwpY7M_-mcJFabfAn06-Q4nc_WQs Image of Carl Abrahamsson https://www.carlabrahamsson.com

Rendering Unconscious welcomes the hosts of Unconventional Dyad Podcast! Listen to their podcast Unconventional Dyad and follow them on social media: https://unconventionaldyad.wixsite.com/welcome Unconventional Dyad Podcast: where psychology and psychoanalysis meets social justice, feminism, politics, climate change, critical theory, graduate student mental health, and the arts. This episode is also available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/nsFl5WcCBww Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists and other creatives & intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. http://www.renderingunconscious.org You can support the podcast at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Thank you so much for your support! Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019): https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 Vanessa Sinclair, PsyD is a psychoanalyst based in Stockholm. Dr. Sinclair authored Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: the Cut in Creation (Routledge, 2020), and recently edited the anthology Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019), as well as On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) with Dr. Manya Steinkoler. She organizes psychoanalytic events and conferences internationally and is a founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis. http://www.drvanessasinclair.net The track at the end of the episode is "If I could just get clear" from the album "Follow my voice" by Vanessa Sinclair and Per Åhlund available digitally at Bandcamp: https://vanessasinclairperhlund.bandcamp.com/album/follow-my-voice And as a limited edition CD (edition of 23) with original collage, available from Trapart Editions: https://store.trapart.net/details/00168 Intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast by Carl Abrahamsson: https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Image: UNCONVENTIONAL DYAD PODCAST https://unconventionaldyad.wixsite.com/welcome

Chiron Armand, founder of Impact Shamanism, is a spirit-initiated shaman holding additional initiations in such New World traditions as Haitian Vodou (Houngan Asogwe) and Brazilian Quimbanda (com licensa). He is a trained hoodoo root doctor in the Southern Conjure tradition and is the author of Deliverance!: Hoodoo Spells of Uncrossing, Healing, and Protection and Clearing Spaces: Inspirational Techniques to Heal Your Home. He holds an MA in Performance Studies from New York University and a BA in Ritual Anthropology and Queer Studies from Hampshire College. https://www.impactshamanism.com https://osoldameianoite.com Chiron Armand presented and performed ritual at the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference, London 2016. Papers from that conference were collected into The Fenris Wolf 9, available as a limited edition hardbound with special limited edition print of the cover artwork signed by the artist Val Denham. https://store.trapart.net/details/00026 This episode is also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/-Kns4f4QhTI The work of Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold is mentioned in this episode: https://scarletimprint.com/nicholaj-de-mattos-frisvold Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists and other creatives & intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. http://www.renderingunconscious.org You can support the podcast at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Thank you so much for your support! Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019): https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 Vanessa Sinclair, PsyD is a psychoanalyst based in Stockholm. Dr. Sinclair authored Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: the Cut in Creation (Routledge, 2020), and recently edited the anthology Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019), as well as On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) with Dr. Manya Steinkoler. She organizes psychoanalytic events and conferences internationally and is a founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis. http://www.drvanessasinclair.net The track at the end of the episode is "Behind the behind" by Carl Abrahamsson from the album "The larval stage of a bookworm" available on all major streaming platforms as well as at Bandcamp: https://carlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com/album/the-larval-stage-of-a-bookworm Intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast by Carl Abrahamsson: https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Photo of Chiron Armand