Irish Lacanian psychoanalyst Ray O'Neill discusses Salvador Dali's work from a psychoanalytic viewpoint, addressing narcissism, the theory of the double & posing the question what's really in a name? For more from Dr. O'Neill visit www.machna.ie

Rendering Unconscious presents a talk by Dr. Ray O'Neill, a psychoanalyst practicing in Dublin, Ireland. This talk, first presented at the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference in London, May 2016, is titled "Double Double, Toil and Trouble, Psychoanalysis Burn and Surrealism Bubble" and addresses the Double in psychoanalysis and surrealism, specifically through a Lacanian look at the work of Salvador Dali. For more on the conference visit http://psychartcult.org

Papers from the conference have been collected into an edited volume, The Fenris Wolf volume 9 (Trapart Books, 2017) https://amzn.to/3ItCEyE

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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

Rendering Unconscious is also a book and e-book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019) https://www.bygge.trapart.net/?product=sinclair-vanessa-rendering-unconscious-1-hardback

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 “A Spell” from the album CUT TO FIT THE MOUTH by Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson available from Highbrow Lowlife. https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com/album/cut-to-fit-the-mouth

Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair. A book of her cut-up poetry SWITCHING MIRRORS is available through trapart.net and CHAOS OF THE THIRD MIND with artist Katelan Foisy is upcoming from Fulgur. https://chaosofthethirdmind.com