Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

Today’s discussion is with Dr. Celeste Pietrusza, as she presents her work on kink, BDSM, psychoanalysis and phenomenology.  Dr. Pietrusza is a post-doctoral psychodynamic clinician current working at Greene Clinic in Brooklyn, NY. She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Duquesne University. Her doctoral dissertation traces changing dynamics in kink and BDSM theory and practices. She is currently working on a manuscript on feminine sexuality in and through contemporary art praxes. Ecrits conference at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, October 11-13, 2019: https://www.duq.edu/academics/schools/liberal-arts/departments-and-programs/psychology/2019-lacans-écrits-conference If you enjoy what we’re doing, please support the podcast at: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl 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. Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart, 2019): www.trapart.net Rendering Unconscious Podcast can be found at: Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud Please visit the About page for links to all of these sites: http://www.renderingunconscious.org/about/ For more, please visit the following websites: www.drvanessasinclair.net/podcast www.renderingunconscious.org/about www.trapart.net www.dasunbehagen.org Books mentioned in this episode include: Juliet Flower MacCannell (1999)The Hysterics Guide to the Future Female Subject: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-hysterics-guide-to-the-future-female-subject Alenka Zupancic (2017) What is Sex?: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/what-sex Books Dr. Pietrusza recommends on kink / BDSM: Robin Bauer's work and that of many others is in this volume, which includes essays on self-transcendence and kink/BDSM: Langdridge, D. & Barker, M. (Eds.) Safe, sane and consensual: contemporary perspectives on sadomasochism: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230517745 Lee Harrington's essay on pup play is in this volume: Taormino, T. (Ed.), The ultimate guide to kink: BDSM, role play and the erotic edge: http://cleispress.com/book/2072/the-ultimate-guide-to-kink-bdsm-role-play-and-the-erotic-edge/ For some accounts from practitioners who speak directly about their experiences: Hammers, C. (2013). Corporeality, sadomasochism and sexual trauma. Body & Society, 1-23. Retrieved from: http://bod.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/03/08/1357034X13477159 Hay, M. (July 25, 2016). The pleasure and pain of being disabled in the BDSM community. Vice. Retrieved from: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nnkv3d/disabled-bdsm-experiences On Mistress Velvet (who requires her clients to read black feminist theory): https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mistress-velvet_n_5a822b50e4b00ecc923d4eba The track at the end of the episode is “Unconscious Sexuality” from Message 23. Words by Vanessa Sinclair. Sounds by Carl Abrahamsson. From Highbrow Lowlife: https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson from the exhibition “Mementeros” currently on view at MOPIA, Zürich, from July 4 – August 28, 2019: www.porninart.com Photo of Dr. Celeste Pietrusza

This episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast is "The Truth of Gender: Psychoanalysis' Unthinkable Trauma," a lecture given by Dr Nicolas Evzonas at the 11th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (SIPP-ISPP) at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden, on May 2, 2019: www.sipp-ispp.org Dr Evzonas holds a PhD in Greek Literature. He is an analytically oriented therapist with an institutional and private practice in Paris. He is also a researcher and lecturer at the department of psychoanalytic studies in Paris Diderot University. His scholarly work has received numerous distinctions and awards, and he is the author of some forty articles in the fields of literature, cinema, psychopathology and psychoanalysis, published in French, English, Greek and Portuguese. His main interests focus on trans identities and countertransference at the intersection of metapsychology and gender studies. He is currently working as a co-editor of a special issue of the American monographic journal Psychoanalytic Inquiry on "Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Issues in France: Sexualities, Gender, Classe and Race ». Please visit https://univ-paris-diderot.academia.edu/NicolasEvzonas 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. Rendering Unconscious is also a book: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart, 2019): www.trapart.net For more, please visit the following websites: www.sipp-ispp.org www.drvanessasinclair.net www.renderingunconscious.org www.trapart.net www.dasunbehagen.org Please support the podcast at: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Rendering Unconscious Podcast can be found at: Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud Please visit the About page for links to all of these sites: www.renderingunconscious.org/about The track at the end of the episode is “Chained to fellow prisoners” from the upcoming album "The chapel is empty." Words by Vanessa Sinclair. Sounds by Akoustik Timbre Frekuency. From Highbrow Lowlife. https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com photo of Dr Nicolas Evzonas

Today's discussion is with Professor Todd McGowan, about his chapter on "The Signification of the Phallus" in Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Signification of the Phallus' to 'Metaphor of the Subject' (Routledge, 2019) edited by Stijn Vanheule, Derek Hook and Calum Neil: https://www.routledge.com/Reading-Lacans-Ecrits-From-Signification-of-the-Phallus-to-Metaphor/Vanheule-Hook-Neill/p/book/9780415708029 Dr. Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy (2017), Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016), Contemporary Film Directors: Spike Lee (2014), The Fictional Christopher Nolan (2013), Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis (2013), The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan (2007), and The Impossible David Lynch (2007). Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (2019) is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. Dr. McGowan also contributed a chapter “The sex in their violence: eroticizing biopower” to the anthology On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2018) edited by Vanessa Sinclair and Manya Steinkoler: https://www.routledge.com/On-Psychoanalysis-and-Violence-Contemporary-Lacanian-Perspectives/Sinclair-Steinkoler/p/book/9781138346338 For more please visit: vermont.academia.edu/ToddMcGowan If you enjoy what we’re doing, please support the podcast at: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl To hear Adrian Price's discussion of “An Artificial Tongue with a Natural Curl” – On Lacan’s Last Major Written Piece ‘Joyce le Symptôme’ visit: http://dasunbehagen.org/adrian-price-artificial-tongue-natural-curl-lacans-last-major-written-piece-joyce-le-symptome/ Alenka Zupancic's book "The Odd One In: on Comedy" is mentioned in this talk (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/odd-one), as is Jennifer Friedlander's "Feminine Look: Sexuation, Spectatorship, Subversion," the work of Judith Butler and Joan Copjec. 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. Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart, 2019): www.trapart.net Rendering Unconscious Podcast can be found at: Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud Please visit the about page for links to all of these sites: www.renderingunconscious.org/about The track at the end of the episode is “The chapel is empty” from the upcoming album of the same name. Words by Vanessa Sinclair. Sounds by Akoustik Timbre Frekuency. From Highbrow Lowlife: https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson from the exhibition "Mementeros" currently on view at MOPIA, Zürich, from July 4 - August 28, 2019: www.porninart.com Original artwork available at Trapart Books, Films, Editions: https://store.trapart.net/item/4 Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson will be performing at Rua Red Gallery, Dublin, Saturday, August 10, as part of Kendell Geers' exhibition "The Second Coming (Do What Thou Wilt)": www.ruared.ie

This episode is a lecture by Katrina Makkouk entitled “Pound’s Occultism: the Development of Automatic Writing and Occult Philosophy in the Pisan Cantos” presented at Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism and Psychoanalysis, Brunnenburg Castle, Merano, Italy, June 1, 2019. For more about the conference, please visit www.psychartcult.org Katrina Makkouk is a graduate of Clemson University where she earned her Master’s degree in English. She moved from South Carolina to the West Coast in 2010 where she still pursues her love of literature through poetry and writing. Her primary research interests are modernism and how occult philosophy and methodology are applied in literature. She published her study on the occultist elements seen within the works of Ezra Pound—most notably focusing on The Pisan Cantos. You can find her on instagram @musicalrose1 For more information, please visit: www.renderingunconscious.org www.trapart.net  www.drvanessasinclair.net www.dasunbehagen.org To support the podcast visit: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Rendering Unconscious is a podcast about psychoanalysis, culture and more hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst from New York City, now based in Stockholm. Dr. Sinclair sees patients internationally, specializing in online and remote treatment for entrepreneurs, creatives and business people who travel, offering continuity and quality of care for modern people on the go, as well as for those who are home-bound or live in remote locations and may not otherwise have access to psychoanalytic treatment. For more information visit: www.drvanessasinclair.net The track playing at the end of the episode is titled “Are you doing the work angelic?” from the album Message 23. Words by Vanessa Sinclair. Music by Joachim Nordwall. https://vanessasinclair.bandcamp.com/album/message-23 https://idealrecordings.bandcamp.com Photo of Katrina Makkouk presenting at Brunnenburg Castle by Carl Abrahamsson. www.carlabrahamsson.com

This episode is a lecture by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair entitled "The Crusade Against Magical Thinking" given at Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism and Psychoanalysis, Brunnenburg Castle in Merano, Italy, June 1, 2019. Dr. Sinclair is introduced by Dr. Kasper Opstrup. For more about the conference, please visit www.psychartcult.org. Rendering Unconscious is a podcast about psychoanalysis, culture and more hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst from New York City, now based in Stockholm. www.renderingunconscious.org Dr. Sinclair sees patients internationally, specializing in online and remote treatment for entrepreneurs, creatives and business people who travel, offering continuity and quality of care for modern people on the go, as well as for those who are home-bound or live in remote locations and may not otherwise have access to psychoanalytic treatment. www.drvanessasinclair.net Quoted in this episode: Dr. MJ Maher: https://www.karnacbooks.com/Author.asp?AID=18677 Dr. Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold: https://scarletimprint.com/nicholaj-de-mattos-frisvold/ A version of this talk was first presented at the conference Psychoanalysis and Politics: Colonial Fantasies, Violent Transmission, organized by Dr. Lene Auestad, held at the Swedish Psychoanalytic Association, Stockholm, May 10-12, 2019. www.psa-pol.org Dr. Sinclair is the editor of: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019): https://store.trapart.net/books/167-rendering-unconscious-pre-order.html?search_query=rendering+unconscious&results=7 On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2018) co-edited with Dr. Manya Steinkoler: https://www.routledge.com/On-Psychoanalysis-and-Violence-Contemporary-Lacanian-Perspectives/Sinclair-Steinkoler/p/book/9781138346338 The Fenris Wolf, vol 9(Trapart, 2017)co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson: https://store.trapart.net/home/123-the-fenris-wolf-9.html Dr. Sinclair is the author of Switching Mirrors (Trapart Books, 2016): https://store.trapart.net/home/113-switching-mirrors-23-edition.html?search_query=switching+mirrors&results=4 She is currently working on Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: Another Royal Road forthcoming from Routledge (2020).  A founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis, Dr. Sinclair facilitates lectures, events and conferences internationally. www.dasunbehagen.org For more information, please visit:   www.renderingunconscious.org www.trapart.net  www.drvanessasinclair.net www.dasunbehagen.org Please support the podcast at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl The song at the end of the episode is "I'm in Love with a Witch" by Carl Abrahamsson remixed by knifesex from the album "The Larval Stage of a Bookworm(Remixed)" https://carlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com https://knifesex.bandcamp.com Photo by Carl Abrahamsson

Amanda Diserholt is a PhD candidate at Edinburgh Napier University at the School of Applied Sciences. Her research looks at the symptomatology of fatigue from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective. She is also the secretary of Lacan in Scotland. www.lacaninscotland.com The book "Why Do People Get Ill?" by Darian Leader and David Corfield is mentioned in this episode (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55307/why-do-people-get-ill-/9780141021218.html), as is the work of Calum Neill.  https://www.napier.ac.uk/people/calum-neill 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. Some episodes are lectures from various events. For more, please visit: www.lacaninscotland.com www.renderingunconscious.org www.trapart.net www.drvanessasinclair.net Please support the podcast at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl The song at the end of the episode is from “MEMENTEROS” by Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson available on Vimeo on Demand via Trapart Film. www.trapartfilm.com Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson from the exhibition “Mementeros” now on view at MOPIA, Zürich, July 4 – August 28, 2019. www.porninart.com Original artwork available at Trapart Books, Films, Editions: https://store.trapart.net/item/4

Ethan Clarke is an artist and visual anthropologist who earned his degree from UC Santa Cruz, graduating summa cum laude. His primary areas of study are war and conflict, art and visual culture, technology, and evolutionary biology, with expertise in design, art, applied anthropology, social sciences and their real world utilization. “I have written extensively on the interplay between created culture (technology, media etc), and collective cultural identity (history, politics etc), as well as humanity’s ever present coevolution with technology and our transhuman future. Additionally, I have produced numerous multimedia artworks which confront similar themes.” You can find him and his art and design work on Instagram @Lucid_Pixel_Consulting Videos referenced in this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLR0xBAWd_o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk9vS-CFubw Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair. I interview 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. I also post lectures from various events I’ve organized. 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 “Noblesse Oblige” from the album Nocturnal Meditations by Carl Abrahamsson. https://carlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com Artwork "Swords Fall" by Vanessa Sinclair & Katelan Foisy www.chaosofthethirdmind.com Original artwork available at Trapart Books, Films, Editions: https://store.trapart.net/item/4

This episode is a lecture given by Ethan Clarke at the conference Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism & Psychoanalysis, held at Schloss Brunnenburg, Südtirol, Italy, on June 1, 2019. Read more about the conference here: http://psychartcult.org http://www.drvanessasinclair.net/conference/ Ethan Clarke is an anthropologist who earned his degree from UC Santa Cruz, graduating summa cum laude. His primary areas of study are war and conflict, art and visual culture, technology, and evolutionary biology. You can find him and his artwork on Instagram @Lucid_Pixel_Consulting Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair. I interview 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. I also post lectures from various events I’ve organized. www.renderingunconscious.org 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 from “MEMENTEROS” by Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson available on Vimeo on Demand via Trapart Films. https://vimeo.com/ondemand/mementeros/345464746 https://www.trapartfilm.com Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson from the exhibition "Mementeros" now on view at MOPIA, Zürich, July 4 - August 28, 2019. www.porninart.com Original artwork available at Trapart Books, Films, Editions: https://store.trapart.net/item/4

This episode is a talk by Dr. Siegfried de Rachewiltz, anthropologist and Director of Schloss Brunnenburg, Südtirol, Italy, given at the conference Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism & Psychoanalysis, June 1, 2019. Read more about the conference here: www.psychartcult.org If you enjoy what we’re doing, please support the podcast at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair. I interview 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. I also post lectures from various events I’ve organized. For more info visit: www.sderachewiltz.net/en/ www.brunnenburg.net/en/ www.drvanessasinclair.net www.dasunbehagen.org www.trapart.net www.renderingunconscious.org The song at the end of the episode is from “MEMENTEROS” by Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson available on Vimeo on Demand via Trapart Films www.trapartfilm.com Photo by Carl Abrahamsson www.carlabrahamsson.com

On this episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast, we have Kadmus Herschel presenting his lecture "True to the Earth and a Pagan Conception of the Self" first given at the conference Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism & Psychoanalysis, at Schloss Pienzenau, Merano, Südtirol, Italy, on May 30, 2019.  www.psychartcult.org 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. Episodes also include lectures from events Dr. Sinclair organizes internationally.  www.renderingunconscious.org Kadmus Herschel is a published academic with a Ph.D. in philosophy teaching at the college level. He is also a practicing ceremonial magician with a long-standing relationship to the ancient Celtic deities. He has published extensively on the Gods and Radicals website as well as in The Fenris Wolf (Trapart Books). He recently published the book 'True to the Earth: Pagan Political Theology' through Gods and Radicals Press.  http://abeautifulresistance.org 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 from “LUNACY” by Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson available on DVD and Vimeo on Demand via Trapart Films and the original soundtrack from Highbrow-Lowlife on iTunes, Spotify, YouTube & all major streaming platforms. https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com https://vimeo.com/carlabrahamsson/vod_pages Image by Carl Abrahamsson. Film Still from "Lunacy"