Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

Heather Farrow, PsyD is a Clinical Psychologist working at the Detroit VA Medical Center. She is a member of AKA, the first Black Sorority in the world, which includes member Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Follow her at instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drheatherfarrow/ This episode is also available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/V6R-cEaYZSw Mentioned in this episode: “Racial Oppression and Heath: A Biopsychosocial View” by Drs. Tanya White-Davis and Anu Kotay is available in Rendering Unconscious, the book: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019) https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 Chiron Armand: https://www.impactshamanism.com Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by 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. http://www.renderingunconscious.org/about You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated! Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst based Stockholm, who sees clients internationally, specializing in offering quality psychoanalytic treatment remotely and online. Her books include Switching Mirrors (2016), The Fenris Wolf vol 9 (2017) co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (2018) co-edited with Manya Steinkoler, and Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: the Cut in Creation forthcoming from Routledge 2020. Dr. Sinclair is a founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis. http://www.drvanessasinclair.net The track playing at the end of the episode is titled “Behind the behind” from the album "The larval stage of a bookworm" by Carl Abrahamsson. Available digitally via Bandcamp: https://carlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com/album/the-larval-stage-of-a-bookworm Portrait of Dr. Heather Farrow

Michael O’Loughlin is Professor in the College of Education and Health Sciences and Professor and in the Ph.D. program in Clinical Psychology at Adelphi University, New York. He has authored, co-authored or edited ten books, most recently [With S. Arac-Orhun and M. Queler], Lives Interrupted: Psychiatric narratives of struggle and resilience [Lexington Books, 2019]. Since 2018 he has been co-editor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. He is also editor of the book series, Psychoanalytic Interventions: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts, and co-editor of the book series Critical Childhood & Youth Studies: Theoretical Explorations and Practices in Clinical, Educational, Social, and Cultural Contexts, both from Lexington Books. He is in private practice on Long Island, NY. http://michaeloloughlinphd.com This episode is available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/U4gKhl7a5qU Articles mentioned/discussed: O'Loughlin, M. (In press). Cultural ruptures and their consequences for mental health across generations: The case of Ireland. In I. Lambrecht & A. Lavis (Eds), Culture and Psychosis. New York & London: Routledge. O'Loughlin, M. (Under review). Book Review.  Love’s betrayal: The decline of Catholicism and rise of new religions in Ireland by Peter Mulholland. [Oxford, & New York: Peter Lang]. Journal of Psychosocial Studies, O'Loughlin, M. (In press). CBT: The Cognitive Behavioral Tsunami: Managerialism Politics, and the Corruptions of Science, by Farhad Dalal [Routledge, London, & New York, 1st edn., 2018]. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society,  O'Loughlin, M. (2020). Whiteness in the psychoanalytic imagination. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 51, 4,
 O'Loughlin, M. (2020). Ethical loneliness in the psychiatric clinic: The manufacture of non-belonging. Ethics, Medicine and Public Health, 14, July-Sept. Book: O’Loughlin, M. (2009). The subject of childhood, New York: Peter Lang. Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by 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. http://www.renderingunconscious.org/about You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated! Rendering Unconscious is also a book and e-book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019) https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst based Stockholm, who sees clients internationally, specializing in offering quality psychoanalytic treatment remotely and online. Her books include Switching Mirrors (2016), The Fenris Wolf vol 9 (2017) co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (2018) co-edited with Manya Steinkoler, and Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: the Cut in Creation forthcoming from Routledge 2020. Dr. Sinclair is a founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis. http://www.drvanessasinclair.net The track playing at the end of the episode is titled “This is New York” from the album "Cut to fit the mouth". Words by Vanessa Sinclair. Music by Carl Abrahamsson. Available from Highbrow Lowlife and Trapart Editions in standard and deluxe limited edition CD: https://store.trapart.net/details/00081 as well as digitally on Bandcamp: https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com/album/cut-to-fit-the-mouth Portrait of Michael O'Loughlin

Tayannah Lee McQuillar is a tarot reader and researcher of religion, esoterica, and mysticism. The author of several books, including Rootwork(2003), Creole Fire (2017), Tupac Shakur: the Life and Times of an American Icon (2010) co-authored with Fred L. Johnson, PhD, as well as The Hoodoo Tarot and The Sibyls Oraculum with artwork by Katelan Foisy. Her upcoming book is Astrology for Mystics forthcoming from Inner Traditions (2021). https://www.innertraditions.com/author/tayannah-lee-mcquillar Follow her at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tayannahleemcquillar/ Contact her at: tlmcquillar [AT] gmail [DOT] com This episode is available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/4RtdorhLys8 For more information about Katelan Foisy: https://www.katelanfoisy.com Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by 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. http://www.renderingunconscious.org/about You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated! Rendering Unconscious is also a book and e-book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019) https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst based Stockholm, who sees clients internationally, specializing in offering quality psychoanalytic treatment remotely and online. Her books include Switching Mirrors (2016), The Fenris Wolf vol 9 (2017) co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (2018) co-edited with Manya Steinkoler, and Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: the Cut in Creation forthcoming from Routledge 2020. Dr. Sinclair is a founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis. http://www.drvanessasinclair.net The track playing at the end of the episode is titled “Make the Witches Come” from the album "Coven". Words by Katelan Foisy. Vocals by Katelan Foisy and Vanessa Sinclair. Music by Carl Abrahamsson. Available from Highbrow Lowlife: https://coven-compilation.bandcamp.com Portrait of Tayannah Lee McQuillar

Klara Naszkowska, Ph.D., Cultural Historian specialising in the early history of psychoanalysis. Founding director of the International Association for Spielrein Studies, 2019/2020 Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University. Author of the book The Living Mirror: The Representation of Doubling Identities in the British and Polish Women’s Literature (1846-1938) (2014), most recent paper in English: "Passions, Politics, and Drives: Sabina Spielrein in Soviet Russia" (2019), and of many articles on Spielrein in Polish and English. Klara is currently working on a book on Jewish women-psychoanalysts and the great wave of European intellectual immigration in the 1930s to the United States and teaching on this subject at Blanton-Peale Institute. International Association for Spielrein Studies: https://www.spielreinassociation.org This episode is also available to view on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gl-JhSRlwLQ Mentioned in this episode: Dr. John Launer, author of Spielrein's biography "Sex versus Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein": http://www.johnlauner.com Dr. Adrienne Harris, director of the Sandor Ferenczi Center at the New School for Social Research (https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/centers-special-programs/sandor-ferenczi-center/) and author of "Gender as Soft Assembly" (Routledge, 2009) among others: https://www.routledge.com/search?author=Adrienne%20Harris Dr. Pamela Cooper White, Professor of Psychology & Religion at Union Theological Seminary: https://utsnyc.edu/faculty/pamela-cooper-white/ Dr. Ruth Hemus, author of Dada's Women (Yale Books, 2009): https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/ruth-hemus(77d80e79-025e-49e1-8e95-93bde8e4e7fb)/publications.html Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by 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. http://www.renderingunconscious.org/about You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated! Rendering Unconscious is also a book and e-book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019) https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst based Stockholm, who sees clients internationally, specializing in offering quality psychoanalytic treatment remotely and online. Her books include Switching Mirrors (2016), The Fenris Wolf vol 9 (2017) co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (2018) co-edited with Manya Steinkoler, and Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: the Cut in Creation forthcoming from Routledge 2020. Dr. Sinclair is a founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis. http://www.drvanessasinclair.net The track playing at the end of the episode is titled “Unconscious Sexuality” from the album "Message 23". Words by Vanessa Sinclair. Music by Carl Abrahamsson. Available from Highbrow Lowlife. https://vanessasinclair.bandcamp.com Image: portrait of Klara Naszkowska, Ph.D

Sheldon George is Professor of English and Chair of the English department at Simmons University in Boston, Massachusetts. His scholarship centers most directly on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and applies cultural and literary theory to analyses of American and African-American literature and culture. He is author of Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity and coeditor, with Jean Wyatt, of Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race, Ethics, Narrative Form. He is currently completing a collection coedited with Derek Hook for Routledge press that is titled Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity and Psychoanalytic Theory. https://www.simmons.edu/academics/faculty/sheldon-george This episode is also available to view on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gEyWM56YUR0 Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by 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. http://www.renderingunconscious.org/about/ You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated! Rendering Unconscious is also a book and e-book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019) https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst based Stockholm, who sees clients internationally, specializing in offering quality psychoanalytic treatment remotely and online. Her books include Switching Mirrors (2016), The Fenris Wolf vol 9 (2017) co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (2018) co-edited with Manya Steinkoler, and Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: the Cut in Creation forthcoming from Routledge 2020. Dr. Sinclair 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 “Inside you is outside me (remixed)” from the album "The larval stage of a bookworm (remixed)" by Carl Abrahamsson, remixed by Serena Stucke. Available from Highbrow Lowlife on Bandcamp: https://carlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com/album/the-larval-stage-of-a-bookworm-remixed Image from Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Analysis of African-American Identity by Sheldon George, PhD: https://www.baylorpress.com/9781602587342/trauma-and-race/

Dr. Robert Samuels is Lecturer in advanced writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He holds doctorates in Psychoanalysis and English. He is the author of 11 books, including Psychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences (2017), Freud for the Twenty-First Century (2019), Psychoanalyzing the Left and Right after Donald Trump (2016) and Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free (2013). https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030243814 This episode is also available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/OT573UNs1zY Mentioned in this episode: Madness the Podcast with Dr. Steven Reisner http://madnesspodcast.com Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by 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. http://www.renderingunconscious.org/about/ You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated! Rendering Unconscious is also a book and e-book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019) https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst based Stockholm, who sees clients internationally, specializing in offering quality psychoanalytic treatment remotely and online. Her books include Switching Mirrors (2016), The Fenris Wolf vol 9 (2017) co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (2018) co-edited with Manya Steinkoler, and Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: the Cut in Creation forthcoming from Routledge 2020. Dr. Sinclair 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 “Sowing Strings” from the album "Sound 23" by Vanessa Sinclair & Douglas Lucas, available on CD via Highbrow Lowlife + Trapart Editions: https://store.trapart.net/details/00101 And on Bandcamp: https://vanessasinclairdouglaslucas.bandcamp.com Image: collage by Vanessa Sinclair

Katharina Rothe, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst and psychosocial researcher. She is a graduate of psychoanalytic training at the W. A. White Institute in New York - http://www.wawhite.org - where she also teaches the course Gender, Sex & Sexuality. Alongside maintaining a private practice in New York City, she is widely published in academic journals and books on psychoanalysis, qualitative methods in psychoanalytic social research, sex and gender, anti-Semitism, racism, the aftermath of National Socialism and the Holocaust. She is a co-editor of the German journal Psychoanalyse. Texte zur Sozialforschung [Psychoanalysis, Contributions to Social Research] - https://www.psychologie-aktuell.com/journale/psychoanalyse/impressum.html - and an on the editorial board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uucp20/current. Together with Daniel Rosengart (John Jay College, CUNY) and Steffen Krüger (University of Oslo) she has just completed the translation of the essay In-Depth Hermeneutical Cultural Analysis (1986) by the late psychoanalyst, sociologist and Critical Theorist Alfred Lorenzer [1922-2002]. It will be published with UIT (Unconscious in Translation) in 2020. https://uitbooks.com Homepage: http://www.consult-ny.com Mentioned in this episode: Link to Dr. Rothe's article on "Psychoanalysis and the Political" on Psychoanalysis Today: http://www.psychoanalysis.today/en-GB/PT-Articles/Rothe164015/Psychoanalysis-and-the-Political-(1).aspx You may also find her articles on "Intimacy: Inner Space and Relating with Others" and "Psychoanalysis in the Epicenter of the Pandemic" http://www.psychoanalysis.today/en-GB/Authors/Biography.aspx?iMISID=164015 Alfred Lorenzer (1986) “In-Depth Hermeneutical Cultural Analysis” [Tiefenhermeneutische Kulturanalyse]. In: A. Lorenzer (Ed.) Kultur-Analysen. Frankfurt/Main: Fischer. Link to a special issue of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society volume 15, 213–220 (2010) where Lorenzer was introduced to the Anglophone world: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/pcs.2010.15 Peter Redman, one of the editors, also did the line edits for our translation of the essay. Link to the Sigmund-Freud-Institut, that Lorenzer was also a part of at his time. https://www.sigmund-freud-institut.de/index.php/institut/organisation/organisation-english-version/ Dr. Rothe's ‘doctoral parents’ Drs. Thomas Leithäuser and Elfriede Löchel. There is no English and no current link for Prof. Dr. Thomas Leithäuser who is now in retirement. Prof. Dr. Elfriede Löchel https://www.ipu-berlin.de/en/professoren/loechel-elfriede/ Link to the International Research Group for Psycho-Societal Analysis that I mentioned and of which Leithäuser was a founding member. This year’s conference was of course cancelled due to the Covid pandemic. https://psycho-societal.org/history/ Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair http://www.renderingunconscious.org/about/ http://www.drvanessasinclair.net You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated! Rendering Unconscious is also a book and e-book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019) https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 The track at the end of the episode is “Synthesis Incarnate” from the album "Mirrors" by Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson, available as part of a 2CD boxset from Trapart Editions & Highbrow Lowlife: https://store.trapart.net/details/00111 Also available at Bandcamp: https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com Image of Dr. Katharina Rothe

Chris Semtner is an internationally exhibited fine artist whose paintings have entered numerous public collections including the Virginia Historical Society and the University of Maryland. https://chrissemtner.com Semtner has written several books and chapters on topics including literature, visual art, and history in addition to contributing articles to Biography.com, Resources for American Literary Studies, Crime Writers’ Chronicle, and The Edgar Allan Poe Review. He has curated critically acclaimed exhibits for museums and galleries across the country with his Library of Virginia exhibit Poe: Man, Myth, or Monster, earning the praise of The New York Times. His exhibits for the Poe Museum brought that institution awards and honors from TIME Magazine, USA Today, and several others. In search of innovative ways to bring Poe to new audiences, Semtner has collaborated on Poe-themed performances with groups including the Latin Ballet of Virginia, the Friends of Shockoe Hill Cemetery, and Engaging History Productions. Semtner has appeared on BBC4, PBS, Travel Channel, Military History, NPR, CNN, and other networks. He regularly speaks about a variety of unusual, obscure, and macabre subjects to groups of all ages around the country and as far away as Japan. His most recent book, The Poe Shrine: Building the World’s Finest Edgar Allan Poe Collection, tells the strange but true stories behind the Poe Museum’s artifacts. https://www.poemuseum.org This episode is also available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/NzZlWF0Cwm4 Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by 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. http://www.renderingunconscious.org/about/ You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated! Rendering Unconscious is also a book and e-book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019) https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst based Stockholm, who sees clients internationally, specializing in offering quality psychoanalytic treatment remotely and online. Her books include Switching Mirrors (2016), The Fenris Wolf vol 9 (2017) co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (2018) co-edited with Manya Steinkoler, and Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: the Cut in Creation forthcoming from Routledge 2020. Dr. Sinclair 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 “I'm in love with a witch” from the album "The larval stage of a bookworm" by Carl Abrahamsson. Film by Vanessa Sinclair. https://carlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com/album/the-larval-stage-of-a-bookworm Image from the Poe Museum

Molly Castelloe, Ph.D, is a writer and videographer. She studied theatre and psychoanalysis at New York University and has published in international journals on psychoanalysis and group dynamics. For her film Vamik's Room, she garnered the Gradiva Award, which recognizes artistic excellence in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Molly is also an analytic candidate at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis in Greenwich Village, New York City. This episode is also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/mIsHvWSEnvo Vamik's Room is premiering at the New Haven Documentary Film Festival this weekend! Saturday, August 22: https://nhdocs2020.eventive.org/films/vamik-s-room-5f1f62f4f67b7a006a042b90 Vamik's Room website: https://www.vamiksroom.org Listen to Rendering Unconscious interview with Vamik Volkan. RU83: http://www.renderingunconscious.org/psychoanalysis/ru83-professor-emeritus-vamik-volkan-on-large-group-psychology/ Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by 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. http://www.renderingunconscious.org To support the podcast please visit our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Rendering Unconscious is also a book and e-book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019) https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst based Stockholm, who sees clients internationally, specializing in offering quality psychoanalytic treatment remotely and online. Her books include Switching Mirrors (2016), The Fenris Wolf vol 9 (2017) co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (2018) co-edited with Manya Steinkoler, and Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: the Cut in Creation forthcoming from Routledge 2020. Dr. Sinclair 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 “Hunter's Moon”. Words by Vanessa Sinclair. Music and film by Carl Abrahamsson. Check out Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson at Bandcamp: https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com Portrait of Dr. Molly Castelloe

Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson: Live at the Escuela Incierta, Lugar a dudas, Cali, Colombia, July 7, 2018. Join us at: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst, artist, author and poet, who relocated from New York City to Stockholm and sees clients internationally. http://www.drvanessasinclair.net Carl Abrahamsson is a Swedish author, musician, artist, photographer and filmmaker, who writes fiction, and also material about the arts & entertainment, esoteric history, occulture, as well as artist portraits for the international market. He also lectures on all of the mentioned subjects at art schools, universities, events, symposia and conferences. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com This live performance was given when Carl and Vanessa were both lecturing as part of the Escuela Incierta "Occulturas" summer program, 2018, Lugar a dudas, Cali, Colombia. https://victoralbarracin.com/escuela Art by Sammael Bohorquez