Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

On this episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast, host Dr. Vanessa Sinclair speaks with Craig VI Slee, a writer, poet, consultant and theorist, who lives in the North West of the UK. Born with Cerebral Palsy, and latterly a partial-foot amputee, he is a full-time wheelchair user whose work covers the intersections between disability, environment, philosophy, storytelling, magic and myth. He blogs at http://www.cold-albion.net If you enjoy what we’re doing, please join us: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl For more information visit: www.drvanessasinclair.net www.cold-albion.net www.trapart.net www.highbrow-lowlife.com The song at the end of the episode is from “LUNACY” by Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson available on DVD via Trapart, and upcoming from Highbrow-Lowlife on iTunes, Spotify, YouTube & all major streaming platforms: https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com/album/lunacy-ost Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair www.chaosofthethirdmind.com

REBIS: The Double Being - Júlio Mendes Rodrigo On this episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast, Júlio Mendes Rodrigo - a Portuguese teacher, radio broadcaster, curator and writer currently based in East Timor, Southeast Asia - presents his paper REBIS: The Double Being, available as part of the anthology The Fenris Wolf, volume 9 (https://store.trapart.net/details/00026) - collected papers from the Psychoanalysis, Art & Occult conference published by Trapart (www.trapart.net). If you enjoy what we're doing, please join us: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl For more information visit: www.trapart.net www.drvanessasinclair.net www.dieelektrischenvorspiele.wordpress.com www.highbrow-lowlife.com The song at the end of the episode is "Crossroads" by Carl Abrahamsson featuring Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge from the compilation album COVEN available from Highbrow-Lowlife. https://coven-compilation.bandcamp.com Photo: Júlio Mendes Rodrigo at Swayambhunath stupa – Kathmandu, August 2018, Photo by María Errehache.

On this episode of Rendering Unconscious, philosopher Luce deLire presents "Necropolitics, the Death Drive and the Necessity of Evil" originally given at the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference, London 2016. http://psychartcult.org Collected papers from that conference can be found in The Fenris Wolf 9 (2017): https://store.trapart.net/details/00026 She has contributed to the anthology Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart 2019). https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 Luce deLire is mostly known as a sophist, lover of public dancing, time traveler, philosopher and collector of mediocre jokes. She is working on and with treason, post secularism, self destruction, fascism and seduction - all in mixed media. You can find more from Luce deLire at: http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/08/what-do-we-even-want-from-one-another/ http://literaturwissenschaft-berlin.de/roundtable-critique/ https://m.mixcloud.com/lucedelire http://heidyngbk.blogspot.de/?m=1 https://www.instagram.com/p/BRd1rRrgwT6 If you enjoy what we're doing, please support our work at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl For more information: www.renderingunconscious.org www.trapart.net www.drvanessasinclair.net www.dasunbehagen.org www.highbrow-lowlife.com The track at the end of the episode is "It Can be Chaotic and Disturbing" from the compilation album MESSAGE 23 available from www.highbrow-lowlife.com. Words by Vanessa Sinclair. Music by Witch Beam. https://vanessasinclair.bandcamp.com Photograph of Luce deLire by Eshan Rafi

Famed artist and musician Val Denham presents her paper "Proclaim Present Time Over" originally given at the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference, London 2016. http://psychartcult.org This paper can be found as part of a collection of papers from this conference that became a special edition of The Fenris Wolf volume 9, which can be found at https://store.trapart.net/details/00026 If you enjoy what we're doing, please join us at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl For more information visit: www.drvanessasinclair.net www.renderingunconscious.org www.trapart.net www.highbrow-lowlife.com www.dasunbehagen.org The song at the end of the episode is "To Be Back With You" a collaboration between Val Denham and Vanessa Sinclair, with music by Carl Abrahamsson, from the compilation album MESSAGE 23 available from http://highbrow-lowlife.com/catalog/vanessa-sinclair-message-23/ Image is a still from a film created for "To Be Back With You" by Vanessa Sinclair available at Vimeo and YouTube. https://youtu.be/WiKAzUMkxf8

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

Swedish author Carl Abrahamsson presents Formulating the Desired: On Ritual Magic & Psychoanalysis originally given at Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult, London 2016. On this episode of Rendering Unconscious, author and occultural pioneer Carl Abrahamsson presents his talk "Formulating the Desired: Some similarities between ritual magic and the psychoanalytic process" originally given at the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference held in London 2016. http://psychartcult.org The Fenris Wolf volume 9 is the collected papers from this conference and can be found at https://store.trapart.net/details/00026 If you enjoy what we're doing, please join us at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl For more information visit: www.carlabrahamsson.com www.drvanessasinclair.net www.renderingunconscious.org www.dasunbehagen.org The song at the end of the episode is "Heated Wanderlust" from the upcoming album of the same name, a collaboration between Carl Abrahamsson and Akoustik Timbre Frekuency available via http://highbrow-lowlife.com/catalog/carl-abrahamsson-akoustik-timbre-frekuency-heated-wanderlust-and-then-some/ Photo by Carl Abrahamsson

On this episode of Rendering Unconscious, Dr. Vanessa Sinclair interviews artist and art therapist Melissa Diaz, discussing fine art, outsider art, art therapy, mental health care, fundraising for Puerto Rico, MSD Strong and the March for Our Lives. Melissa Diaz is an artist and a licensed, registered, board certified art therapist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BFA in Painting from The University of Central Florida and an MPS in Art Therapy & Creativity Development from Pratt Institute. In 2010, Diaz founded, Open House BK, a community arts initiative that provides free/affordable pop-up art events, exhibitions and therapeutic arts workshops. As a Creative Arts Therapist, Diaz has experience utilizing art therapy, play therapy and mindfulness practices with adults, children and families. She has worked as a therapist and teaching artist in shelters, schools, museums, inpatient and outpatient psychiatric settings. Diaz has presented widely on the topic of art therapy application, at several institutions, including, Pratt Institute, School of Visual Arts, University of Central Florida, University of Wisconsin and Blick Art Materials. In her artwork, Diaz creates interactive installation art as a source of community engagement. In 2015, she was awarded a residency at The Marble House Project, there she explored the integration of installation art, art therapy and environment. She has exhibited widely throughout NYC and nationally, in both gallery and alternative spaces. In all her work, she considers space, relationships and holding environment. https://www.melissadiazart.com If you enjoy what we're doing, please join us at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl For more information please visit: https://www.melissadiazart.com http://openhousebk.com http://www.drvanessasinclair.net http://www.renderingunconscious.org http://dasunbehagen.org Music by Vanessa Sinclair & Madame Deficit "Her Outer Dada" from the compilation album MESSAGE 23: https://vanessasinclair.bandcamp.com Art by Melissa Diaz

This episode of Rendering Unconscious features a rendition of a talk entitled "Cutting up the Image of the Father/ Reconstructing the Third," originally given by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair at NGBK Berlin as part of the exhibition "Father Figures are Hard to Find": http://en.fatherfiguresarehardtofind.net/works/vanessa-sinclair-cutting-up-the-image-of-the-father-reconstructing-the-third/ 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): https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 Please support the podcast at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl For more info please visit: http://www.drvanessasinclair.net http://www.renderingunconscious.org https://store.trapart.net http://dasunbehagen.org If you enjoy this episode, be sure to check out the work of fellow psychoanalysts Patricia Gherovici, Darian Leader, Paul Verhaeghe, Jamieson Webster. The song at the end of the episode is "Page 6.2" by Vanessa Sinclair with music by Carl Abrahamsson from the compilation album COVEN available via https://coven-compilation.bandcamp.com Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair www.chaosofthethirdmind.com

NYC Psychologist Dr. Meredith Friedson discusses her new book Subjective Darkness: Depression as a Loss of Connection, Narrative, Meaning and the Capacity for Self-Representation. On this episode of Rendering Unconscious, host Dr. Vanessa Sinclair speaks with NY Licensed Clinical Psychologist Dr. Meredith Friedson about her new book Subjective Darkness: Depression as a Loss of Connection, Narrative, Meaning, and the Capacity for Self-Representation, as well as about the current state of the mental health system, including the treatment of depression and psychosis. If you enjoy what we're doing, please join us at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl For more info please visit: https://www.meredithfriedsonphd.com http://www.drvanessasinclair.net http://www.renderingunconscious.org/about/ http://dasunbehagen.org The song at the end of the episode is "Dark Moon" words by Vanessa Sinclair, music by Carl Abrahamsson. From their album CUT TO FIT THE MOUTH: http://highbrow-lowlife.com/catalog/vanessa-sinclair-carl-abrahamsson-cut-to-fit-the-mouth/ Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair: https://chaosofthethirdmind.com

UK singer and multi-instrumentalist Sharron Kraus presents her talk Art as Alchemy, originally given at the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference, London 2016. Rendering Unconscious presents a talk by Sharron Kraus, a singer and multi-instrumentalist based in the UK. This talk, first presented at the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference in London, May 2016, is titled "Art as Alchemy". If you enjoy what we're doing, please join us at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl For more info visit: http://www.sharronkraus.com https://store.trapart.net http://psychartcult.org http://www.renderingunconscious.org/about/ The song at the end of the episode is "Nightmare" by Sharron Kraus, available on the compilation album COVEN https://coven-compilation.bandcamp.com Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair https://chaosofthethirdmind.com