Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

For this episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast, we have Elisabeth Punzi, PhD presenting her work with Per Magnus Johansson, PhD on Freud and H.D. This paper "Psychoanalysis and the Freedom of Thought; Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) was originally presented at the conference Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism and Psychoanalysis, at Schloss Pienzenau, Südtirol, on May 30, 2019. Another paper on the relationship between H.D. and Freud by Drs. Elisabeth Punzi and Per Magnus Johansson, “‘She is perfect’ – Nuancing Freud’s View of Femininity through Reading ‘Tribute to Freud’ with respect to mystical and religious themes,” can be found in Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019).  www.trapart.net H.D's works "Tribute to Freud" and "End to Torment" are both mentioned in this episode.  Dr. Punzi is organizing a conference at Gothenburg University, The Material and Immaterial Heritage of Psychiatry, June 11-12th, 2019, where both Dr. Johansson and Dr. Sinclair will be presenting.  Elisabeth Punzi is a licensed psychologist, PhD and a lecturer at the Department of Psychology at Gothenburg University (GU). She leads a project concerning heritage and health at the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies, GU and teaches psychoanalytic theory, psychology of religion and qualitative research methods, and many other topics. Her research concerns clinical practice, critical psychology/psychiatry, the importance of expressive arts for health and recovery as well as Jewish identity, heritage and congregational life. Per Magnus Johansson is a licensed psychologist, psychoanalyst, PhD and Associate professor in the History of Ideas at the University of Gothenburg (GU). He teaches psychoanalytic theory, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and Foucauldian discourse analysis, and many other topics. He is also in private practice in Gothenburg. His research mainly concerns the history of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and psychiatry. Rendering Unconscious is a podcast hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, an American psychoanalyst based in Stockholm. Dr. Sinclair interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, philosophers, creative arts therapists, social workers, artists, poets, writers, scholars and other clinicians and intellectuals about their process, work, current events, activism, mental health care, diverse theoretical lenses and various worldviews. Episodes also include lectures given and recorded at various events hosted by Dr. Sinclair internationally. www.renderingunconscious.org/about Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry published by Trapart Books, 2019. Visit www.trapart.net Book release party at Aeon Books, 151 E Broadway, Manhattan June 15 @ 7pm For more information visit www.dasunbehagen.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 “Wormhole Staircase” by Carl Abrahamsson (feat. Vanessa Sinclair) available on Abrahamsson's new solo album "O Time Thy Pyramids" from Highbrow-Lowlife on iTunes, Spotify, Bandcamp, YouTube & all major streaming platforms. www.carlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com www.highbrow-lowlife.com Photo of Elisabeth Punzi by Vanessa Sinclair

Stijn Vanheule is a clinical psychologist and professor at Ghent University, Belgium. He is also a privately practicing psychoanalyst and a member of the New Lacanian School for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective and Diagnosis, the DSM - A Critical Review and Psychiatric Diagnosis Revisited: From DSM to Clinical Case Formulation.  www.stijnvanheule.psychoanalysis.be Mentioned in this episode: Event on Psychosis at IPTAR, NYC, June 1, 2019: https://iptar.org/event/june-1st-save-the-date-on-the-verge/ Summer course on Lacan's Seminar XXIII offered at Ghent University, July 15-19, 2019: https://pevpat-ugent.be/intensive-doctoral-school/ Ecrits conference at Duquesne University in the Fall, October 11-13, 2019: https://www.duq.edu/academics/schools/liberal-arts/departments-and-programs/psychology/2019-lacans-écrits-conference For more, visit: www.stijnvanheule.psychoanalysis.be www.drvanessasinclair.net www.renderingunconscious.org www.trapart.net www.dasunbehagen.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 & more. Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry published by Trapart Books, 2019. Visit www.trapart.net Book release party at Aeon Books, 151 E Broadway, Manhattan, June 15 @ 7pm For more information visit www.dasunbehagen.org If you enjoy what we’re doing, please support the podcast at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl The song at the end of the episode is from the My Silent Lips (OST) by Sinnelag to the film by Carl Abrahamsson. The film can be viewed on Vimeo on Demand: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/mysilentlips The soundtrack can be heard at Bandcamp, iTunes, Spotify, www.Highbrow-Lowlife.com and all major streaming platforms.  https://carlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair www.chaosofthethirdmind.com

Emma Lieber is a psychoanalyst in formation in New York, where she sees patients, and a part-time lecturer of Literary Studies at the New School. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cabinet, The Point Magazine, LitHub, New England Review, The Massachusetts Review, L.A. Review of Books, European Journal of Psychoanalysis, and other academic and psychoanalytic publications. She is currently at work on a book manuscript, The Writing Cure, and an edited volume, The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass (Palgrave, forthcoming) with Anna Fishzon. She is a member of the editorial board of The Candidate Journal, a psychoanalytic publication for early-career clinicians, and of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Lieber contributed two pieces to the anthology Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019), "Bellowing Presidents" and "Dear Jill, Dear Chris." www.trapart.net Emma is co-hosting a launch party event for the book Rendering Unconscious at Aeon Bookstore, 151 E Broadway, Manhattan, at 7pm on June 15, 2019: https://aeonbookstore.com The Candidate Journal's event The American Dream was mentioned in this episode. Check out the most recent issue Screens: www.thecandidatejournal.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 & more. 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 (www.trapartfilm.com)and the original soundtrack from Highbrow-Lowlife on iTunes, Spotify, YouTube & all major streaming platforms. www.highbrow-lowlife.com Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair www.chaosofthethirdmind.com Original artwork available at Trapart Books, Films, Editions: https://store.trapart.net/item/4

On this episode of Rendering Unconscious podcast, author/ editor Dr. Vanessa Sinclair speaks with publisher Carl Abrahamsson about the new book Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019). For more information, please visit www.trapart.net As well as about the upcoming conference Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism & Psychoanalysis, May 30 - June 1, 2019, Pienzenau & Brunnenburg Castles, Merano, Italy. For more information, including list of speakers and presentations, please visit www.drvanessasinclair.net/conference Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019). Edited by Vanessa Sinclair In times of crisis, one needs to stop and ask, “How did we get here?” Our contemporary chaos is the result of a society built upon pervasive systems of oppression, discrimination and violence that run deeper and reach further than most understand or care to realize. These draconian systems have been fundamental to many aspects of our lives, and we seem to have gradually allowed them more power. However, our foundation is not solid; it is fractured and collapsing – if we allow that. We need to start applying new models of interpretation and analysis to the deep-rooted problems at hand. “Rendering Unconscious” brings together international scholars, psychoanalysts, psychologists, philosophers, researchers, writers and poets; reflecting on current events, politics, the state of mental health care, the arts, literature, mythology, and the cultural climate; thoughtfully evaluating this moment of crisis, its implications, wide-ranging effects, and the social structures that have brought us to this point of urgency. Hate speech, Internet stalking, virtual violence, the horde mentality of the alt-right, systematic racism, the psychology of rioting, the theater of violence, fake news, the power of disability, erotic transference and counter-transference, the economics of libido, Eros and the death drive, fascist narratives, psychoanalytic formation as resistance, surrealism and sexuality, traversing genders, and colonial counterviolence are but a few of the topics addressed in this thought-provoking and inspiring volume. For more information, please visit:   www.trapart.net  www.drvanessasinclair.net www.dasunbehagen.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 & more. If you enjoy what we’re doing, please support the podcast at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl The song at the end of the episode is "Opening Doors We Never Knew Existed" by Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson from the upcoming album Switching Mirrors on Erototox Decodings www.erototox.com https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com Book cover art by Alison Blickle www.alisonblickle.com

Dr. Mikita Brottman is a writer, mostly of non-fiction. Although her writing includes elements of memoir, psycho-analysis, history, and forensic psychology, her most consistent focus is the reconsideration and interrogation of the true crime genre. Dr. Brottman has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University, and Director of the Humanities Program at the Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art in downtown Baltimore, where she teaches courses in literature, critical studies, and myth. Dr. Brottman is also a psychoanalyst certified since 2012 through the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NCPsycA). She does volunteer work in the Maryland prison system and in forensic psychiatric facilities. Her articles and case studies have appeared in The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, New Literary History, American Imago, and other journals. She lives in the old Belvedere Hotel in beautiful Mount Vernon, Baltimore, with her partner, the movie critic David Sterritt, and our popular and charismatic French bulldog, Oliver. You can read a profile of her and her work published in the Baltimore Sun by Mary Carole McCauley; or check out at this article by Mark Dery at Boing Boing: https://boingboing.net/2014/10/16/the-bookshelf-of-a-homicide-en.html  Her most recent book is An Unexplained Death: the True Story of a Body at the Belvedere. Books also mentioned in this podcast episode are The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison and Thirteen Girls. Her podcast is Forensic Transmissions. All of which can be found at her website: www.mikitabrottman.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, work, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. If you enjoy what we’re doing, please support the podcast at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl For more info visit: www.mikitabrottman.com www.drvanessasinclair.net www.trapart.net www.dasunbehagen.org The music playing at the end of the episode is Thee Hierophant Ov Lead by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge & Carl Abrahamsson from their upcoming album Loyalty Does Not End With Death to be released this Friday April 19, 2019, from iDeal Recordings: http://idealrecordings.tumblr.com Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair www.chaosofthethirdmind.com Original artwork available at Trapart Books, Films, Editions: https://store.trapart.net/item/4

Todd Dean, MD is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a senior editor at DIVISION/ Review and adjunct instructor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine. 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. www.renderingunconscious.org Dr. Dean contributed the chapter "How to measure what: notes on universals and particulars" to the anthology On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2018): https://www.routledge.com/On-Psychoanalysis-and-Violence-Contemporary-Lacanian-Perspectives-1st/Sinclair-Steinkoler/p/book/9781138346338 Referenced in this episode: Adam Tooze (2018) Neoliberalism's World Order: www.dissentmagazine.org/article/neoliberalism-world-order-review-quinn-slobodian-globalists Stijn Vanhuele (2017) Psychiatric Diagnosis Revisited: From DSM to Clinical Case Formulation. London: Palgrave MacMillan. https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319446684 Darian Leader (2000) Freud's Footnotes. London: Faber & Faber. www.darianleader.com/books/ David Lichtenstein & Lionel Bailly (2018) The Lacan Tradition. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Lacan-Tradition/Bailly-Lichtenstein/p/book/9781780491516 Lacan in Ireland: Collected Translations and papers by Cormac Gallagher: http://www.lacaninireland.com/web/  St. Louis Lacan Study Group: http://stlpsa.org/studygroups.html Links to upcoming conferences: Ecrits conference 2019, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, October 11-13: http://lacantoronto.ca/2019/02/lacans-ecrits-conference-oct-11-13-2019-pittsburgh/ 11th Meeting of the International Society of Psychoanalysis & Philosophy (SIPP), Stockholm, May 2-4: http://www.sipp-ispp.org Colonial Fantasies, Violent Transmissions, Psychoanalysis & Politics conference, Stockholm, May 10-12: http://www.psa-pol.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.trapart.net www.dasunbehagen.org The music playing at the end of the episode is “Page 1” by Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson: https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair www.chaosofthethirdmind.com

Dany Nobus is a Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst and former Chair of the Freud Museum London. Main research interests include the history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis, the history of psychiatry, and the intersections between psychoanalysis, philosophy and the arts. In 2017, Dany Nobus was awarded the Sarton medal of the University of Ghent for his outstanding contributions to the history of psychoanalysis. Dr. Nobus has authored, edited, and contributed to many psychoanalytic books and journals. Recently, ‘Kant with Sade’, in Vanheule, S., Hook, D. and Neill, C. (eds.) Reading Lacan’s Écrits: From ‘Signification of the Phallus’ to ‘Metaphor of the Subject’. London : Routledge. pp. 110 – 167. 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. 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.dasunbehagen.org The track playing at the end of the episode is titled “Small Deviations”. Words by Vanessa Sinclair. Music by Akoustik Timbre Frekuency. Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair www.chaosofthethirdmind.com

Professor Dany Nobus is a Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst and former Chair of the Freud Museum London. Main research interests include the history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis, the history of psychiatry, and the intersections between psychoanalysis, philosophy and the arts. In 2017, Dany Nobus was awarded the Sarton medal of the University of Ghent for his outstanding contributions to the history of psychoanalysis. Dr. Nobus has authored, edited, and contributed to many psychoanalytic books and journals. Recently, 'Kant with Sade', in Vanheule, S., Hook, D. and Neill, C. (eds.) Reading Lacan's Écrits: From 'Signification of the Phallus' to 'Metaphor of the Subject'. London : Routledge. pp. 110 - 167.  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. 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.dasunbehagen.org The track playing at the end of the episode is titled “We Come, Mind Off” from the album Cut to Fit the Mouth from Highbrow-Lowlife. Words by Vanessa Sinclair. Music by Carl Abrahamsson.  www.highbrow-lowlife.com Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair www.chaosofthethirdmind.com

Jacob Johanssen's research is influenced by media and communication studies, psychoanalysis, psychosocial studies and critical theory. His work revolves mainly around two themes: exploring Freudian psychoanalysis as a theory and method for digital media research with a particular focus on conceptualisations of affect, as well as using psychoanalysis to think critically about contemporary digital culture more broadly. He is Course Leader for the MA Data, Culture and Society, a new interdisciplinary course on datafication and big data, which launches in 2019. Dr. Johanssen's research interests include audience research, social media, digital labour, psychoanalysis and the media, affect theory, psychosocial studies, critical theory, as well as digital culture. His work has appeared in triple C; the International Journal of Cultural Studies; Information, Communication & Society; Journalism Studies and other journals. He is the author of the monograph Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture: Audiences, Social Media, and Big Data (Routledge, 2019). He is a Founding Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council. He is also member of the Executive Committee of the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS) and serves as its Membership Secretary. Dr. Johanssen is convenor of the Psychoanalysis at Westminster reading group. From 2010-2013, he was Co-Editor of the journal Cyborg Subjects: Discourses on Digital Culture. It was an open access, open review journal on digital culture, politics and subjectivity. Selected papers and new chapters were published as a book in 2013. Before joining CAMRI in 2016 as Senior Lecturer, Dr. Johanssen was Hourly Paid Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London from 2012-2015. He holds a BA in Communication Studies (University of Salzburg), an MA in Media and Communications (Goldsmiths, University of London) and a PhD from the University of East London. The Skin Ego by Didier Anzieu is discussed in this episode.  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. 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.dasunbehagen.org The track playing at the end of the episode is titled “A Mirror of Nothing” from the album Message 23. Words by Vanessa Sinclair. Music by Damages. www.highbrow-lowlife.com Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair

Today's guest is Julie Fotheringham, a psychoanalyst, dancer and performance artist in NYC. As a psychoanalyst, always ever in formation, she has a particularly Lacanian orientation, continuing her studies with the Lacanian Compass and the activities of Das Unbehagen. She is also on the editorial board of The Candidate Journal. "My main influences include the seminars of Jacques Lacan, the writings of Freud, art in all of its forms, my patients, and of course my own psychoanalyst. At present, my performance practice comprises mostly solo movement improvisations interrogating the link between psychoanalysis and the body. Speaking and being. Speaking-being. Parlêtre." Julie Fotheringham contributed writing to the upcoming book Rendering Unconscious (Trapart 2019). 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. The work of Bruce Fink is referenced in this episode, as is Jacques-Alain Miller and Russel Grigg. If you enjoy what we’re doing, please support the podcast at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl For more info visit: www.juliefotheringham.net www.drvanessasinclair.net www.trapart.net www.dasunbehagen.org The track playing at the end of the episode is titled “Everyone that I've Ever Dreamed of Being” from the album Switching Mirrors by Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson. Soon to be released by Erototox Decodings. www.erototox.com Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair.