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.

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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