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In this episode, your hots discuss a list of therapy red flags offered by Jonathan Shedler. We will focus on Unethical red flags and red flags indicating that this is not a psychoanalytic practice. [06:10] This is not psychoanalysis. [33:50] This is unethical. [45:35] Ending You can follow us on BlueSky: @discussionsonpsya.bsky.social We stopped updating our profile on Tweeter/X because we do not want to support the owner of this application, and we encourage you to do the same. We'll maintain the FB page, but nothing else, for the same reasons. Thank you for listening, and if you like the podcast, give us 5 stars and mention us to your friends and colleagues.
RU383: BALTIMORE BASED ARTIST & OCCULTIST NYNNMAH ON PHANTASMS OF EROS & NOSFERATU: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru383-baltimore-based-artist-and Join Rendering Unconscious Podcast at Substack to watch full episodes and access the complete archive: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com Rendering Unconscious episode 383. For this episode, I sat down with Nynnmah, a zine artist with interests in literature, art, and esoterica. Having explored philosophical questions from a young age, Nynn has deep interests in exploring the nature of reality, free will, and esoteric topics. Nynn's work is influenced by her experiences, including her life in Baltimore, interest in metal music, and interactions with various cultural and spiritual influences. She emphasizes the importance of imagination, self-expression, and the role of artists in society. Follow Nynn at: https://www.instagram.com/nynnmah/ Nynn has a couple upcoming events, including talks on “Phantasms of Eros” Thursday, February 19th, and “Psychosexual & Esoteric Symbolism in Nosferatu” Thursday, February 26th. https://linktr.ee/nynnmah News & events: Monday, February 16th we have a LIVE Rendering Unconscious Podcast event with Drs. Helena Texier and Eve Watson, editors of Freud's Principle Case Studies Revisited: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/you-are-invited-to-a-live-ru-podcast Wednesday, February 18th, we have Mikita Brottman presenting Images from the Id: The Strange World of Psychic Photographer Ted Serios. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/images-from-the-id-the-strange-world Introduction to Occulture with author Carl Abrahamsson, Begins February 21, Morbid Anatomy Museum, online. https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/introduction-to-occulture-with-author-carl-abrahamsson-begins-february-7 If you're in London, I'll be at the Freud Museum in-person Wednesday, February 25th with my husband Carl Abrahamsson for Surreal Secrets of the Psyche: The Creative Zeitgeist of Psychoanalysis, Film and the Avant-Garde. https://www.freud.org.uk/event/surreal-secrets-of-the-psyche-the-creative-zeitgeist-of-psychoanalysis-film-and-the-avant-garde/ Monday, February 23rd Carl Abrahamsson will be in-person at the Viktor Wynd Museum in London presenting Fabulous Freaks of Yesteryear: https://thelasttuesdaysociety.org/exhibition/fabulous-freaks-of-yesteryear-by-carl-abrahamsson-live/ Rendering Unconscious is also a book series: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/3N6XKIl The song at the end of this episode is "Celebrity" from the album "Infiltrate" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/infiltrate-21 Infiltrate has been featured on the latest episode of Radio Panik! https://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/l-etranger/show-518-drud-freeform-hemline/ Enjoy! Thank you for being a paid subscriber to Rendering Unconscious Podcast. It makes my work possible. If you are so far a free subscriber, thanks to you too. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to gain access to all the material on the site, including new, future, and archival podcast episodes. It's so important to maintain independent spaces free from censorship and corporate influence. If you are interested in pursing psychoanalytic treatment with me, please feel free to contact me directly: https://www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ Thank You.
Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby and Patrick welcome Danielle Drori of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research for the second installment of a two-part series on the thought of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche. Together, the three discuss a pivotal chapter in New Foundations for Psychoanalysis, unpacking Laplanche's “universalized” transformation of Freud's seduction hypothesis; Laplanche's “primal situation” and its roots in anthropology and phenomenology; and what these ideas reveal about our invariably messy experiences of parenting, therapy, and more. Have you noticed that Freud is back? Got questions about psychoanalysis? Or maybe you've traversed the fantasy and lived to tell the tale? Leave us a voicemail! (646) 450-0847 A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now. New episodes on Saturdays. Follow us on social media: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/OrdinaryUnhappiness Twitter: @UnhappinessPod Instagram: @OrdinaryUnhappiness Patreon: patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness Theme song: Formal Chicken - Gnossienne No. 1 https://open.spotify.com/album/2MIIYnbyLqriV3vrpUTxxO Provided by Fruits Music
In the fifth episode of Was it just a dream?, we find ourselves at sea in the Middle Ages. A raven lands on deck and transforms. What is it asking of us?Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack page.Reference to Albrecht Dürer's medieval engraving Knight, Death and the Devil.Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company.
reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 5, Physical Consciousness — Subconscient — Sleep and Dream — Illness, pp. 93-94This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/psychoanalysis-and-the-practice-of-yoga-part-2/Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net The US editions and links to e-book editions of SriAurobindo's writings can be found at Lotus Press www.lotuspress.com#Sri Aurobindo #yoga #integral yoga #psychology #spirituality #psychoanalysis #Freud #Jung #subconscient #superconscient
reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 5, Physical Consciousness — Subconscient — Sleep and Dream — Illness, pg. 93This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/psychoanalysis-and-the-practice-of-yoga-part-1/Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net The US editions and links to e-book editions of SriAurobindo's writings can be found at Lotus Press www.lotuspress.com#Sri Aurobindo #yoga #integral yoga #spirituality #Freud #psychoanalysis
RU382: SARAH JEZEBEL WOOD ON LOVI ARTES, VALENTINE'S DAY SPECIALS & CREATIVITY AS SELF-CARE Join Rendering Unconscious Podcast at Substack to watch full episodes and access the complete archive: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com Rendering Unconscious episode 382. On this episode, Sarah Jezebel Wood discusses her work with Lovi Artes, focusing on new Valentine's Day offerings, including candles with scents like "Domina" and "Lupercal," and new charm amulets. She shares her journey of starting her candle business, Lovi Artes, during the COVID-19 pandemic, inspired by ancestry and Yule traditions. Wood highlights the evolving nature of her work, which includes performance art and witchcraft. The conversation also touches on the challenges of long winters, the importance of self-care routines, and the impact of social media censorship on artists. https://linktr.ee/sarahjezebel News & events: Monday, February 16th we have a LIVE Rendering Unconscious Podcast event with Drs. Helena Texier and Eve Watson, editors of Freud's Principle Case Studies Revisited: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/you-are-invited-to-a-live-ru-podcast Wednesday, February 18th, we have Mikita Brottman presenting Images from the Id: The Strange World of Psychic Photographer Ted Serios. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/images-from-the-id-the-strange-world If you're in London, I'll be at the Freud Museum in-person Wednesday, February 25th with my husband Carl Abrahamsson for Surreal Secrets of the Psyche: The Creative Zeitgeist of Psychoanalysis, Film and the Avant-Garde. https://www.freud.org.uk/event/surreal-secrets-of-the-psyche-the-creative-zeitgeist-of-psychoanalysis-film-and-the-avant-garde/ Monday, February 23rd Carl Abrahamsson will be in-person at the Viktor Wynd Museum in London presenting Fabulous Freaks of Yesteryear: https://thelasttuesdaysociety.org/exhibition/fabulous-freaks-of-yesteryear-by-carl-abrahamsson-live/ Gary Lachman has a book signing for his new memoir Touched by the Presence at Watkins Books, London on Thursday, February 26th: https://www.watkinsbooks.com/event-details/gary-lachman-touched-by-the-presence Mary Wild has a book signing for Psychoanalysing Horror Cinema at Watkins Books, London on Friday, February 27th: https://www.watkinsbooks.com/event-details/psychoanalysing-horror-cinema-mary-wild Rendering Unconscious is also a book series: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/3N6XKIl The song at the end of this episode is "Any Expression (Gutted)" from the album "Infiltrate" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/infiltrate-21 Infiltrate has been featured on the latest episode of Radio Panik! https://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/l-etranger/show-518-drud-freeform-hemline/ Enjoy! Thank you for being a paid subscriber to Rendering Unconscious Podcast. It makes my work possible. If you are so far a free subscriber, thanks to you too. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to gain access to all the material on the site, including new, future, and archival podcast episodes. It's so important to maintain independent spaces free from censorship and corporate influence. If you are interested in pursing psychoanalytic treatment with me, please feel free to contact me directly: https://www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ Thank You.
"To come back to this idea of 'groaning' - I really like it because I think it's a good description of the work we do, but particularly because it refers to Antonio Ferro's concept of the absorbency of the frame, which I think is another way of referring to it, that the frame can take a little give and take, that there's something organic about it. It has a structure, but it's absorbent, it can move, it's alive. So that is a very important concept. I think a lot of younger analysts or psychotherapists who want to be inspired by psychoanalysis don't let themselves feel comfortable letting things happen first before they try and immediately intervene and feel that they have to have some kind of magical response to it." Episode Description: We begin by unpacking the meanings contained in the metaphor of the 'groaning' analytic frame. Allannah speaks of flexibility, containment and "the expectation of misunderstanding." She shares the importance of the analyst having a sense of an internal frame which is then introduced to the patient and which contrasts with their assumptions of social relatedness - "Too much comfort in the relationship can lead to a pseudo-analysis." We take up the concept of the 'co-created' frame and touch upon the reflections of Aulagnier, Rothstein and Aisenstein. Allannah shares her thinking on the issue of charging for missed sessions and describes her reconsideration of her personal analytic experience with this. We close with a comment on the analyst's internal frame which enables them to "hear the patient in an out-of-the-ordinary way." Our Guest: Allannah Furlong, Ph.D., a psychologist and psychoanalyst, is a member of the Société psychanalytique de Montréal. After serving on the IPA North American Editorial Committee, she was one of the original members of the IPA Committee on Confidentiality and organizers of the first interdisciplinary Inter-Regional Conference on Confidentiality. These collaborations led to the co-editorship of two books on issues of confidentiality in psychoanalysis. In addition, Dr. Furlong has written on the frame, missed sessions, informed consent in psychoanalysis, and the use of clinical material for teaching or publication. She has also written about the temporality of lovesickness, unconscious choice, and dehumanization as a shield against helpless openness to the other, for which she received the JAPA Prize for excellence in psychoanalytic scholarship. Her current research is on the subject-creating function of baby talk. Recommended Readings: M., Baranger, W., & Mom, J. 1983. Process and Non-Process in Analytic Work. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 64:1–15. Bass, A. 2007a. When the Frame doesn't Fit the Picture. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 17:1–27. Bleger, J. 1967. Psycho-analysis of the psychoanalytic frame. In Symbiosis and ambiguity: a psychoanalytic study, 1–13, trans. S. Rogers and edited by J. Churcher & L. Bleger. London: Routledge, 2013. Caper, R. 1992. Does Psychoanalysis Heal? A Contribution to the Theory of Psychoanalytic Technique. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 73:283–292. Donnet, J.-L. 2001. From the Fundamental Rule to the Analysing Situation. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 82:129–140. Ogden, T. H. 1992. Comments on Transference and Countertransference in the Initial Analytic Meeting. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 12:225–247. Roussillon, R. 2015. An Introduction to the Work on Primary Symbolization. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 96:583–594. Stern, S. 2009. Session Frequency and the Definition of Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 19:639–655
Abby and Patrick welcome Danielle Drori of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research for the first in a two-part miniseries introducing the work of psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche (1924-2012). A brilliant clinician and theorist in his own right, Laplanche combined a critical reading of Freud with insights drawn from anthropology, the history of science, and Western philosophy to revolutionize how many analysts saw questions of sexuality, development, language, and more. Yet while incredibly influential in France and beyond, Laplanche's thought has only made limited inroads among clinicians and theorists in the English-speaking world. In this episode, Danielle, Abby, and Patrick introduce the figure of Laplanche, narrating his biography and discussing everything from his place in French critical theory to his encyclopedic scholarship of Freud (together with Jean Pontalis) to his disagreements with Lacan. They then sketch out some of Laplanche's key ideas, with particular attention to his critique of Freud's “seduction theory.” As they explain, Laplanche's revision of that concept into a “generalized” model of seduction allows him and his contemporary interpreters to suggest some radical ways for thinking about questions of trauma, subjectivity, language, sexuality, and more. In Part Two (out next Saturday), the three get granular by close-reading key sections in Laplanche's New Foundations for Psychoanalysis. Texts Cited:Jean Laplanche and Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, The Language of PsychoanalysisJean Laplanche, New Foundations for PsychoanalysisDominique Scarfone, A brief introduction to the work of Jean LaplancheAvgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini, Gender Without IdentityAvgi Saketopoulou, “Laplanche, an introduction by Dominique Scarfone.” Review essay in The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 99(3), 778–786.Sándor Ferenczi, Confusion of tongues between adults and the child: The language of tenderness and of passionHave you noticed that Freud is back? Got questions about psychoanalysis? Or maybe you've traversed the fantasy and lived to tell the tale? Leave us a voicemail! (646) 450-0847A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now. New episodes on Saturdays. Follow us on social media: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/ordinaryunhappiness Twitter: @UnhappinessPod Instagram: @ordinaryunhappiness Patreon: patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness
Critical Consciousness: Beyond Impasses in Environmentalism, Psychoanalysis, and Education (Routledge, 2025) provides insight into the antagonism and disputative dialogue present in contemporary discourse. Taking a broad, pluralistic psychoanalytic perspective, the authors shed light on how and why ideology and conflict have infiltrated education, environmentalism, and psychoanalysis. This book unpacks forms of indoctrination and rejection of new ideas in environmentalism, considers the desubjectification of the human in mental health "services," and assesses how the educational world needs leaders who can articulate unspoken educational aims that perpetuate inequalities, hidden oppression, and their pathogenic effects on disenfranchised groups. This book takes account of the competing schools of psychoanalysis, their members' dismissiveness and enmity toward each other, and their rationalized resistances to discussion across the aisles. From that viewscape, a challenging path forward is proposed. Critical Consciousness is of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, and to readers interested in the psychological aspects of dehumanization, competition, and opposing group identity. Ben Greenberg, PsyD is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and founding director of the Center for Dynamic Practice in Santa Fe, NM. After a wonderful recent conversation with Tracy Morgan about Psychoanalysis, she suggested I become a host to do interviews about a few books I mentioned I'm excited about. I love to hear interviews about new books. I have published several scientific papers among other written media, and am working on a few book manuscripts as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychoanalysis
Critical Consciousness: Beyond Impasses in Environmentalism, Psychoanalysis, and Education (Routledge, 2025) provides insight into the antagonism and disputative dialogue present in contemporary discourse. Taking a broad, pluralistic psychoanalytic perspective, the authors shed light on how and why ideology and conflict have infiltrated education, environmentalism, and psychoanalysis. This book unpacks forms of indoctrination and rejection of new ideas in environmentalism, considers the desubjectification of the human in mental health "services," and assesses how the educational world needs leaders who can articulate unspoken educational aims that perpetuate inequalities, hidden oppression, and their pathogenic effects on disenfranchised groups. This book takes account of the competing schools of psychoanalysis, their members' dismissiveness and enmity toward each other, and their rationalized resistances to discussion across the aisles. From that viewscape, a challenging path forward is proposed. Critical Consciousness is of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, and to readers interested in the psychological aspects of dehumanization, competition, and opposing group identity. Ben Greenberg, PsyD is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and founding director of the Center for Dynamic Practice in Santa Fe, NM. After a wonderful recent conversation with Tracy Morgan about Psychoanalysis, she suggested I become a host to do interviews about a few books I mentioned I'm excited about. I love to hear interviews about new books. I have published several scientific papers among other written media, and am working on a few book manuscripts as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
Critical Consciousness: Beyond Impasses in Environmentalism, Psychoanalysis, and Education (Routledge, 2025) provides insight into the antagonism and disputative dialogue present in contemporary discourse. Taking a broad, pluralistic psychoanalytic perspective, the authors shed light on how and why ideology and conflict have infiltrated education, environmentalism, and psychoanalysis. This book unpacks forms of indoctrination and rejection of new ideas in environmentalism, considers the desubjectification of the human in mental health "services," and assesses how the educational world needs leaders who can articulate unspoken educational aims that perpetuate inequalities, hidden oppression, and their pathogenic effects on disenfranchised groups. This book takes account of the competing schools of psychoanalysis, their members' dismissiveness and enmity toward each other, and their rationalized resistances to discussion across the aisles. From that viewscape, a challenging path forward is proposed. Critical Consciousness is of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, and to readers interested in the psychological aspects of dehumanization, competition, and opposing group identity. Ben Greenberg, PsyD is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and founding director of the Center for Dynamic Practice in Santa Fe, NM. After a wonderful recent conversation with Tracy Morgan about Psychoanalysis, she suggested I become a host to do interviews about a few books I mentioned I'm excited about. I love to hear interviews about new books. I have published several scientific papers among other written media, and am working on a few book manuscripts as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/environmental-studies
Critical Consciousness: Beyond Impasses in Environmentalism, Psychoanalysis, and Education (Routledge, 2025) provides insight into the antagonism and disputative dialogue present in contemporary discourse. Taking a broad, pluralistic psychoanalytic perspective, the authors shed light on how and why ideology and conflict have infiltrated education, environmentalism, and psychoanalysis. This book unpacks forms of indoctrination and rejection of new ideas in environmentalism, considers the desubjectification of the human in mental health "services," and assesses how the educational world needs leaders who can articulate unspoken educational aims that perpetuate inequalities, hidden oppression, and their pathogenic effects on disenfranchised groups. This book takes account of the competing schools of psychoanalysis, their members' dismissiveness and enmity toward each other, and their rationalized resistances to discussion across the aisles. From that viewscape, a challenging path forward is proposed. Critical Consciousness is of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, and to readers interested in the psychological aspects of dehumanization, competition, and opposing group identity. Ben Greenberg, PsyD is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and founding director of the Center for Dynamic Practice in Santa Fe, NM. After a wonderful recent conversation with Tracy Morgan about Psychoanalysis, she suggested I become a host to do interviews about a few books I mentioned I'm excited about. I love to hear interviews about new books. I have published several scientific papers among other written media, and am working on a few book manuscripts as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/spiritual-practice-and-mindfulness
Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels reflects on his appearance at this year's American Psychoanalytic Association (Apsa) national meeting in San Francisco: his receiving the 2026 Lee Jaffe award for his paper, "Treatment of a recovering alcoholic with substitute addictions", and his presentation of that paper alongside discussant Dr. Lance Dodes
We're joined by the four authors of *Digital Theory* — M. Beatrice Fazi, Alexander R. Galloway, Matthew Handelman, and Leif Weatherby — for a roundtable on their new collaborative work.Digital Theory (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) makes a deceptively simple but far-reaching claim: the digital is theoretical. Not in the sense that we theorize about it, but that digitality itself — mediation through discrete units — is a condition for thinking as such.Just to get it out of the way, listeners to the pod know that these four thinkers need no introduction. This is literally the cohort that we've held in our minds over the past few years (there's probably nobody whose shaped our brains as formatively on this subject than Alexander Galloway, whose writing was the subject of Marek's en route masters thesis and the first PDF sent between Marek and Roberto). The conversation opens up a series of productive disagreements within the group. What's the relationship between the digital and computation? For Fazi, the digital is discretization — "the cut" — while computation is systematization, building, constructing. This distinction allows the book to think the digital before and beyond the computer, back to proto-writing tokens and forward to whatever comes next. A major target here is what Galloway calls "analog philosophy," the dominant strain of theory over the last few decades that privileges affect, sensation, intensity, immanence. Deleuze is named directly as the great philosopher of the analog: obsessed with the fold, hostile to structuralism, drawn to "a language of breaths and screams." The authors aren't throwing Deleuze overboard entirely (to them the "Postscript on the Societies of Control" still hits) but they're skeptical that his ontology can account for digital technology as a form of thought. REFERENCES:*Digital Theory* (In Search of Media series), University of Minnesota Press, 2025 https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517920197/digital-theory/M. Beatrice Fazi - *Contingent Computation: Abstraction, Experience, and Indeterminacy in Computational Aesthetics*, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018 https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786606082/Contingent-Computation-Abstraction-Experience-and-Indeterminacy-in-Computational-AestheticsAlexander R. Galloway - *Uncomputable: Play and Politics in the Long Digital Age*, Verso, 2021 https://www.versobooks.com/products/2656-uncomputable - "Golden Age of Analog," *Critical Inquiry* 48, no. 2 (2022) https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/717324 - Galloway's website and blog https://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/Matthew Handelman - *The Mathematical Imagination: On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory*, Fordham University Press, 2019 https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823283842/the-mathematical-imagination/Leif Weatherby - *Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism*, University of Minnesota Press, 2025 https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/language-machines (our book of the year, for what it's worth) - *Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ: German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx*, Fordham University Press, 2016 - Digital Theory Lab at NYU https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/leif-allison-reid-weatherby.htmlSome References Discussed:Gilles Deleuze, "Postscript on the Societies of Control" (1992)Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer, *Dialectic of Enlightenment*Euclid, *Elements*, Book V (on analog/logos)Jacques Lacan, *Seminar II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis* (on cybernetics)François Laruelle and Alain Badiou, on the genericEve Tuck, "Breaking Up with Deleuze"Hito Steyerl, "How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File" (2013)
RU381: RENDERING UNCONSCIOUS PODCAST IS CELEBRATING 8 YEARS! PART 3: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru381-rendering-unconscious-podcast Rendering Unconscious Podcast is now at Substack! https://renderingunconscious.substack.com Rendering Unconscious episode 381. As you know from the previous two episodes, Rendering Unconscious Podcast is celebrating 8 years! Check out: RU379: CELEBRATING 8 YEARS OF RENDERING UNCONSCIOUS: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru379-celebrating-8-years-of-rendering RU380: MEDLEY EPISODE OF RENDERING UNCONSCIOUS CELEBRATING 8 YEARS! https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru380-medley-episode-of-rendering All 3 of these celebratory episodes are unlocked. Enjoy! News & events: Looking forward to seeing you all for the next installment of An Introduction to Psychoanalysis on Saturday, February 7th. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/one-month-til-intro-to-psychoanalysis Wednesday, February 18th, we have Mikita Brottman presenting Images from the Id: The Strange World of Psychic Photographer Ted Serios. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/images-from-the-id-the-strange-world If you're in London, I'll be at the Freud Museum in-person Wednesday, February 25th with my husband Carl Abrahamsson for Surreal Secrets of the Psyche: The Creative Zeitgeist of Psychoanalysis, Film and the Avant-Garde. https://www.freud.org.uk/event/surreal-secrets-of-the-psyche-the-creative-zeitgeist-of-psychoanalysis-film-and-the-avant-garde/ Rendering Unconscious is also a book series: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/3N6XKIl Enjoy! Thank you for being a paid subscriber to Rendering Unconscious Podcast. It makes my work possible. If you are so far a free subscriber, thanks to you too. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to gain access to all the material on the site, including new, future, and archival podcast episodes. It's so important to maintain independent spaces free from censorship and corporate influence. If you are interested in pursing psychoanalytic treatment with me, please feel free to contact me directly: https://www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ Thank You.
In this fourth episode of Was it just a dream?, we're discussing a dream we received as a response to previous dreams. It again involves cutting. Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack page.Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company.
Host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about therapy—the benefits and perils of sharing your troubles with a stranger. In “Therapy,” by J. Robert Lennon, the patient follows a recursive loop of doubt about the whole process. The reader is Troy Iwata. In “Fable,” by Charles Yu, the issues that arise in therapy sessions morph into a revealing personal fairy tale. The reader is BD Wong. With comments by comedian Gary Gulman, who hosted the live show where these stories were presented. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
On the social turn in psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysts Christie and Ricky talk to Alex and George about their article in issue #5 of Damage, on ill-fated attempts at solving social problems through therapy. What is the 'social turn' and is it another case of immediacy? Why are the social problems to be dealt with treated as both urgent and impossible to resolve? Is this a case of hyperpolitics? Is psychoanalysis actually white supremacy? Do the professions need defending? Do they need to accept their limitations? Subscribers to this podcast get 15% off print subscriptions to Damage magazine – and access to to this episode. Go to patreon.com/bungacast Links: The Regression in Psychoanalysis's “Social Turn”, Christie Offenbacher & Ricky Levitt /210/ Reading Club: Psychoanalysis & Spirit of Capitalism
Author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels talks in this episode about program accreditation, training and educational standards in the field of professional psychology, the publishing of ideas--the fraught, much-marketed idea of "expertise"--and gives consumer tips on what to look for seeking mental health treatment
Today I spoke with Dr. Louis Rothschild about his new book Rapprochement Between Fathers and Sons Breakdowns, Reunions, Potentialities (Karnac, 2024). Our conversation moved freely between theory, generational attitudes, thinkers, and personal vignettes. What is a good enough father? What is the difference between a man of achievement and a man of power? Who is the father of the mother's mind? What happens when a father enables holding? How is masculinity valued by other men? What is meant by phrases such as a “man's gotta do what a man's gotta do?” Why exactly do we need to “call the boy's father?” How is the father's role rendered invisible? These are some of the questions subsumed in the broader question of “Who nurtures and who is nurtured?” (And does the myth of the “self-made-man” indicate a man who exists without nurturing?) “What I'm arguing”, says Rothschild, “is that that sexist dichotomy is a mirage in its own right and that attachment strings needn't be severed. They can be reworked over the lifespan and this idea of having this clean tidy break and going off to live your life where liberating the kid from this regressive maternal bond is the path to individuation, I think that's just patently false.” Like an analyst, the book has been in formation for many years. “Percolating and distilling” as Dr. Rothschild says at the top of the interview. Motivated by the “way the culture was shifting” he sensed “that things I take for granted are actually a minority opinion.” Rothschild's survey of sons includes mythology; Oedipus scripture; Issac. As well as the sons of literature; Sendak's Max, Silverstein's Boy, White's Swan, and others. Affect rich case illustrations are also presented. The issues addressed in the book are the ones we are contending with in in analysis. They are the discussions we are having with our fathers, sons, and families. Rothschild's book is essential and meets the clinical moment. “Louis Rothschild's book is both an outstanding representative of ‘return to the father' and a unique explication of psychoanalytic thought on its own. This is a book of great literary elegance and impressive psychological wisdom.” Salman Akhtar, MD Christopher Russell, LP is a psychoanalyst in Chelsea, Manhattan. He is a member of the faculty and supervising analyst at The Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and The New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. His primary theorists are Sándor Ferenczi and Hyman Spotnitz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
Today I spoke with Dr. Louis Rothschild about his new book Rapprochement Between Fathers and Sons Breakdowns, Reunions, Potentialities (Karnac, 2024). Our conversation moved freely between theory, generational attitudes, thinkers, and personal vignettes. What is a good enough father? What is the difference between a man of achievement and a man of power? Who is the father of the mother's mind? What happens when a father enables holding? How is masculinity valued by other men? What is meant by phrases such as a “man's gotta do what a man's gotta do?” Why exactly do we need to “call the boy's father?” How is the father's role rendered invisible? These are some of the questions subsumed in the broader question of “Who nurtures and who is nurtured?” (And does the myth of the “self-made-man” indicate a man who exists without nurturing?) “What I'm arguing”, says Rothschild, “is that that sexist dichotomy is a mirage in its own right and that attachment strings needn't be severed. They can be reworked over the lifespan and this idea of having this clean tidy break and going off to live your life where liberating the kid from this regressive maternal bond is the path to individuation, I think that's just patently false.” Like an analyst, the book has been in formation for many years. “Percolating and distilling” as Dr. Rothschild says at the top of the interview. Motivated by the “way the culture was shifting” he sensed “that things I take for granted are actually a minority opinion.” Rothschild's survey of sons includes mythology; Oedipus scripture; Issac. As well as the sons of literature; Sendak's Max, Silverstein's Boy, White's Swan, and others. Affect rich case illustrations are also presented. The issues addressed in the book are the ones we are contending with in in analysis. They are the discussions we are having with our fathers, sons, and families. Rothschild's book is essential and meets the clinical moment. “Louis Rothschild's book is both an outstanding representative of ‘return to the father' and a unique explication of psychoanalytic thought on its own. This is a book of great literary elegance and impressive psychological wisdom.” Salman Akhtar, MD Christopher Russell, LP is a psychoanalyst in Chelsea, Manhattan. He is a member of the faculty and supervising analyst at The Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and The New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. His primary theorists are Sándor Ferenczi and Hyman Spotnitz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychology
"A saturated state is a state in which the conceptual or emotional object has absolute value, it is already stacked or closed to new meanings and therefore cannot undergo any kind of transformation. An unsaturated state, on the other hand, is a state in which the emotional or conceptual object is in an open state in which it is still open to transformation, to new meanings, to all kinds of change. What I think is interesting and important is to understand that one of the most difficult aims of working with traumatic objects is linked to this transformation from saturated to unsaturated states. Traumatic objects become fixed in a saturated state, which does not allow them to undergo any transformation within the psyche or within the therapeutic analytic process. The saturated state of traumatic events or objects is a frozen state in which therapy or analysis is used to preserve rather than intervene. This creates, in quite a few cases, a situation that I call false therapy or false analysis - a process, a therapeutic process in which very detailed materials are ostensibly presented, but in fact they are presented in a way that forces the therapist or to either swallow them as they are, or vomit them up but not digest them because they are presented in a way that does not tolerate any intervention, any other point of view, any creation of movement within the given frozen narrative." Episode Description: We begin with describing the difference between 'saturated' and 'unsaturated' memories - those that are frozen and without the freedom to reflect from those that contain the capacity to create new meaning. Dana emphasizes the importance of not simply collecting the particulars of a trauma, the 'notes', as much as attending to the nature of its delivery, the 'music' - "the way they tell the story." She presents a case involving 'parasitic language' where imitation of the other is at the level of fetishistic attachment lacking a voice of their own. In her countertransference she noted "I search for you - all I find is myself." We consider how this pseudo-relating induces a peculiar sense of closeness that ultimately contributes to a sense of claustrophobia in the analyst. She shares with us her personal story and reflects "Being a psychoanalyst doesn't mean giving up being a musician." Dana concludes with reading her final paragraph on 'forgiveness.' Our Guest: Dana Amir, PhD., is a clinical psychologist, supervising and training analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, full professor, and head of the interdisciplinary doctoral program in psychoanalysis at the Zramim Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program at Haifa University, poetess and literature researcher. She is the author of seven poetry books, four memoirs in prose, and five psychoanalytic books published by Routledge. She was awarded literary as well as academic prizes, including seven international psychoanalytic awards, including the prestigious Sigourney Award (2025). Recommended Readings: Amir, D. (2012). The Inner Witness. The International Journal of Psycho-analysis, 93:879–896. Amir, D. (2013). The Chameleon Language of Perversion. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 23: 393-407. Amir, D. (2016). The Metaphoric, the Metonymic and the Psychotic aspects of Obsessive-Sympomatology. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 97, 259–280. Amir, D. (2016). Hermetic Narratives and False Analysis: A Unique Variant of the Mechanism of Identification with the Aggressor. Psychoanalytic Review 103(4):539-54 Amir, D. (2023). "From Turning Away to Turning Toward: Adoption as Radical Hospitality". Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 21: 1–18. Amir, D. (2024). From mind-deadness to mindedness, from collaboration to cooperation. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 21(4).
Dr. Roy Barsness is the author of the text, Core Competencies in Relational Psychoanalysis: A Guide to Practice, Study and Research (Routledge, 2018) and author of the text: Psychodynamic Supervision: In a New Key (Routledge, 2025). He has published several professional articles, presents frequently at professional conferences and teaches nationally and internationally on relational psychoanalysis. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Contemporary Psychodynamic Institute, former Professor of Psychology and Academic Dean at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology and served as the Clinical Director of the Clinical Psychology Program at Seattle Pacific University and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Washington-School of Medicine. You can find out more by visiting his lecture series at the Contemporary Psychodynamic Institute: / @contemporarypsycho or by visiting his website: https://roybarsness.com/ ***The Mind Mate Podcast explores the human condition at the intersection of philosophy and psychotherapy. Hosted by counsellor and psychotherapist Tom Ahern, the podcast engages deeply with questions of meaning, anxiety, freedom, identity, death, love, and what it means to live authentically in the modern world. Find out more here: https://ahern.blog/
In this third episode of Was it just a dream?, we are faced with catastrophe, and learn something about the creative response to it.The name “Edward” comes from an Anglo-Saxon name which literally means “guardian or protector of wealth”.Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack page.Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company.
In Grandmotherland, Dr Judith Edwards offers an exploration of Grandmotherhood as an intergenerational, relational, and socially constructed position. Drawing on myth, fairy tales, family narratives, and contemporary lived experience, she examines how dominant cultural discourses shape expectations of grandmothers and organise family roles, boundaries, and power across generations. Judith attends to patterns of transmission, alliance, exclusion, and care, situating Grandmotherhood within wider socio-economic and cultural contexts—including the increasing reliance on grandmothers for childcare. Grandmotherland invites systemic practitioners and scholars to rethink grannyhood not as a fixed role, but as a dynamic position shaped by relationships, histories, and social structures.Judith Edwards is a child and adolescent psychotherapist who has worked for over thirty years at the Tavistock Clinic in London. Love the Wild Swan: The Selected Works of Judith Edwards was published by Routledge in their World Library of Mental Health series, and her edited book, Psychoanalysis and Other Matters: Where Are We Now? was also published by Routledge. From 1996 to 2000, she was joint editor of the Journal of Child Psychotherapy. Apart from her clinical experience, one of her principal interests is in the links between psychoanalysis, culture, and the arts, as well as making psychoanalytic ideas accessible to a wider audience. She has an international academic publishing record and in 2010 was awarded the Jan Lee memorial prize for the best paper linking psychoanalysis and the arts during that year: ‘Teaching & Learning about Psychoanalysis: Film as a teaching tool'.
RU378: OWEN HEWITSON ON LACAN ONLINE, PSYCHOANALYSIS AS A CRAFT & READING LACAN LIKE POETRY https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru378-owen-hewitson-on-lacan-online Rendering Uncosscious has moved to Substack: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com Links to everything RU: https://linktr.ee/renderingunconscious Rendering Unconscious welcomes Owen Hewitson to the podcast! Rendering Unconscious episode 378. In this episode, I sit down with Owen Hewitson of Lacan Online fame. The conversation delves into Owen's journey into psychoanalysis, beginning at age 14 when he first read The Interpretation of Dreams, and the evolution of Lacan Online. We also discuss our book collections, the challenges of analytic training, the significance of unconscious generational transmission, and the need for interdisciplinary engagement in psychoanalysis. We emphasize the importance of democratizing psychoanalytic knowledge and the potential of developing online resources, utilizing platforms such as Substack and YouTube. Owen Hewitson is a psychoanalyst in private practice. As well as running LacanOnline.com, Owen is a contributing author to a number of books and journals on psychoanalysis including Reading Lacan's Ecrits (Routledge, 2022), Reading Lacan's Seminar VIII (Palgrave, 2020), Resistance and the Practice of Rationality (Cambridge, 2013) and Reading Lacan's Autres Écrits (Routledge, forthcoming), among others. https://www.lacanonline.com News & events: Sunday, January 18th, Mary is leading a 5-session class taught online via Zoom – Projections: Death Scenes in Cinema hosted by Morbid Anatomy Museum. https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/projections-death-scenes-in-cinema-with-mary-wild-september Tuesday, January 20th, Mary will be presenting her work on Lynchian Women on David Lynch's birthday hosted by RU Center for Psychoanalysis. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/coming-up-tuesday-january-20th-lynchian Wednesday, January 21st, the Freud Museum London hosts Mary for Projections: Contemporary Female Filmmakers. https://www.freud.org.uk/event/projections-contemporary-female-filmmakers/ Looking forward to seeing you all for the next installment of An Introduction to Psychoanalysis on Saturday, February 7th. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/one-month-til-intro-to-psychoanalysis If you're in London, I'll be at the Freud Museum in-person Wednesday, February 25th with my husband Carl Abrahamsson for Surreal Secrets of the Psyche: The Creative Zeitgeist of Psychoanalysis, Film and the Avant-Garde. https://www.freud.org.uk/event/surreal-secrets-of-the-psyche-the-creative-zeitgeist-of-psychoanalysis-film-and-the-avant-garde/ Wednesday, February 18th, we have Mikita Brottman presenting Images from the Id: The Strange World of Psychic Photographer Ted Serios. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/images-from-the-id-the-strange-world Rendering Unconscious is also a book series: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/3N6XKIl The song at the end of this episode is "Celebrity" from the album "Infiltrate" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/infiltrate-21 Enjoy! Thank you for being a paid subscriber to Rendering Unconscious Podcast. It makes my work possible. If you are so far a free subscriber, thanks to you too. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to gain access to all the material on the site, including new, future, and archival podcast episodes. It's so important to maintain independent spaces free from censorship and corporate influence. If you are interested in pursing psychoanalytic treatment with me, please feel free to contact me directly: https://www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ Thank You.
RU377: EMMALEA RUSSO ON THE DREAM SCHOOL, ART, WRITING & ASTROLOGY https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru377-emmalea-russo-on-the-dream Links to all RU events: https://linktr.ee/renderingunconscious Rendering Unconscious welcomes Emmalea Russo back to the podcast! Rendering Unconscious episode 377. In this episode, we discuss Emmalea's year-long course Psycho Cosmos, which just wrapped, as well as her upcoming monthly year-long course The Dream School, which begins January 25th. We reflect on the impact of these courses, the importance of dreams in art, and the role of the unconscious in creativity. We also touch on the use of tarot and astrology for year-ahead readings, the benefits of ongoing classes, and the building of online communities. Additionally, we discuss misconceptions about magic and art, the value of regular practice, and the upcoming release of Emmalea's new book The Moon Papers. EMMALEA RUSSO is a writer and astrologer. She is the author of several books of poetry. Her first novel Vivienne was published by Arcade in 2024. Her new novel The Moon Papers is forthcoming from Arcade and available for pre-order. Emmalea teaches classes independently on art, literature, psychoanalysis, and the occult and works with clients online via her private astrology practice. https://emmalearusso.com Follow her at Substack: https://emmalea.substack.com Her next year-long course THE DREAM SCHOOL begins January 25th. https://emmalearusso.com/new-products Check out previous episodes with this guest: RU339: EMMALEA RUSSO & VANESSA SINCLAIR ON PSYCHOANALYSIS, DREAMS & LIFE AS ART RU310: EMMALEA RUSSO ON COSMIC RIGOR, PSYCHOANALYSIS, CREATIVITY & ASTROLOGY RU257: EMMALEA RUSSO & MARY WILD ON JIM MORRISON, CINEMA, POETRY, PSYCHOANALYSIS, PHILOSOPHY & CULTURE RU242: EMMALEA RUSSO ON THE ALCHEMY OF THE WORD Rendering Unconscious is also a book series: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/3N6XKIl The song at the end of this episode is "Things Happen Revisited" from the album "Infiltrate" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/infiltrate-21 Enjoy! Thank you for being a paid subscriber to Rendering Unconscious Podcast. It makes my work possible. If you are so far a free subscriber, thanks to you too. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to gain access to all the material on the site, including new, future, and archival podcast episodes. It's so important to maintain independent spaces free from censorship and corporate influence. If you are interested in pursing psychoanalytic treatment with me, please feel free to contact me directly: https://www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ Thank You.
"This patient taught me a lot. The context was that I just finished my second training as a psychodynamic psychotherapist and I felt I needed to prove a lot, and I clearly arrived with the wrong agenda. It was that if I was good enough and smart enough, a clever enough just graduated psychodynamic psychotherapist, I would manage to get into why the patient is struggling so much with the realization of his mother's cancer. That is a resistance, he didn't want to touch the topic at all. I thought that if I uncover the underlying reason why the cancer of his mother was so extremely distressing, and be able to explore with him how he's processing this, I would be helping him. I was extremely wrong. The patient was really generous with me. What I meant is he was forgiving. He clearly was tolerating me trying to push for something he really had no appetite for." "Psychoanalysis is not only about clever interpretations. Psychoanalysis can be about the tools to help us feel what we are experiencing. And in those radical settings, you become almost the object you are projected to be and you need a frame of mind to ground you that you are not that and can offer something different. So that is why I thought it was really useful." Episode Description: We begin with a description of the distinction between supportive and exploratory psychotherapy. Rodrigo presents clinical examples of individuals who were in crises and their capacity to be aware of their inner experiences was not available to them, hence supporting their defenses was vital. In addition, "being with them" became a key aspect of the therapeutic benefit they gained. We consider patients who are phobic about intimacy and have backgrounds where trusting others proved to be actually dangerous. He also spoke of therapists who unknowingly privilege their own need to feel like an interpretive healer in the face of their patients' more immediate need to be listened to. Rodrigo alerts us to the risks of colluding with patients' binary view of the world and recommends helping them recognize that "the therapist may not always be on their side or share their perspective" - this is the creative challenge of supportive work. We close with his sharing with us his personal journey and his appreciation that psychoanalysis can be meaningful as well in settings 'off the couch'. Our Guest: Rodrigo Sanchez Escandón Trained as a Clinical Psychologist in Mexico City and completed his Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy training at the Mexican Psychoanalytic Association before moving to London to undertake further psychoanalytic training at the British Psychoanalytic Association (BPA). He is currently the BPA's Director of Curriculum Subcommittee. He is also the Course Lead for Adult Psychotherapies at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, overseeing programmes in London and the North of England. He previously lectured in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at Essex University, where he continues to supervise PhD students and pursue research. For seven years, Rodrigo worked extensively with individuals experiencing homelessness and complex needs, integrating psychoanalytic approaches into multidisciplinary care. He now maintains a private practice in Leeds, alongside his teaching and leadership roles. Recommended Readings: Winston, A., Rosenthal, R. N., & Roberts, L. W. (2020). Evolution of the concept of supportive psychotherapy. In Learning supportive psychotherapy: An illustrated guide (pp. xx–xx). American Psychiatric Association Publishing. Winston, A., Rosenthal, R. N., & Roberts, L. W. (2020). General framework of supportive psychotherapy. In Learning supportive psychotherapy: An illustrated guide (pp. xx–xx). American Psychiatric Association Publishing. Hellerstein, D. J., Rosenthal, R. N., Pinsker, H., & Klee, S. (1994). Supportive therapy as the treatment model of choice. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 48(1), 80–93. Sanchez Escandon, R. (2025). Introduction to the fundamentals of supportive therapy. In Contemporary developments in supportive therapy: Principles and Practice. Palgrave. Sanchez Escandon, R. (2025). Active and passive use of the transference. Contemporary developments in supportive therapy: Principles and practice. Palgrave.
In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom Podcast, host Stewart Alsop interviews Aurelio Gialluca, an economist and full stack data professional who works across finance, retail, and AI as both a data engineer and machine learning developer, while also exploring human consciousness and psychology. Their wide-ranging conversation covers the intersection of science and psychology, the unique cultural characteristics that make Argentina a haven for eccentrics (drawing parallels to the United States), and how Argentine culture has produced globally influential figures from Borges to Maradona to Che Guevara. They explore the current AI landscape as a "centralizing force" creating cultural homogenization (particularly evident in LinkedIn's cookie-cutter content), discuss the potential futures of AI development from dystopian surveillance states to anarchic chaos, and examine how Argentina's emotionally mature, non-linear communication style might offer insights for navigating technological change. The conversation concludes with Gialluca describing his ambitious project to build a custom water-cooled workstation with industrial-grade processors for his quantitative hedge fund, highlighting the practical challenges of heat management and the recent tripling of RAM prices due to market consolidation.Timestams00:00 Exploring the Intersection of Psychology and Science02:55 Cultural Eccentricity: Argentina vs. the United States05:36 The Influence of Religion on National Identity08:50 The Unique Argentine Cultural Landscape11:49 Soft Power and Cultural Influence14:48 Political Figures and Their Cultural Impact17:50 The Role of Sports in Shaping National Identity20:49 The Evolution of Argentine Music and Subcultures23:41 AI and the Future of Cultural Dynamics26:47 Navigating the Chaos of AI in Culture33:50 Equilibrating Society for a Sustainable Future35:10 The Patchwork Age: Decentralization and Society35:56 The Impact of AI on Human Connection38:06 Individualism vs. Collective Rules in Society39:26 The Future of AI and Global Regulations40:16 Biotechnology: The Next Frontier42:19 Building a Personal AI Lab45:51 Tiers of AI Labs: From Personal to Industrial48:35 Mathematics and AI: The Foundation of Innovation52:12 Stochastic Models and Predictive Analytics55:47 Building a Supercomputer: Hardware InsightsKey Insights1. Argentina's Cultural Exceptionalism and Emotional Maturity: Argentina stands out globally for allowing eccentrics to flourish and having a non-linear communication style that Gialluca describes as "non-monotonous systems." Argentines can joke profoundly and be eccentric while simultaneously being completely organized and straightforward, demonstrating high emotional intelligence and maturity that comes from their unique cultural blend of European romanticism and Latino lightheartedness.2. Argentina as an Underrecognized Cultural Superpower: Despite being introverted about their achievements, Argentina produces an enormous amount of global culture through music, literature, and iconic figures like Borges, Maradona, Messi, and Che Guevara. These cultural exports have shaped entire generations worldwide, with Argentina "stealing the thunder" from other nations and creating lasting soft power influence that people don't fully recognize as Argentine.3. AI's Cultural Impact Follows Oscillating Patterns: Culture operates as a dynamic system that oscillates between centralization and decentralization like a sine wave. AI currently represents a massive centralizing force, as seen in LinkedIn's homogenized content, but this will inevitably trigger a decentralization phase. The speed of this cultural transformation has accelerated dramatically, with changes that once took generations now happening in years.4. The Coming Bifurcation of AI Futures: Gialluca identifies two extreme possible endpoints for AI development: complete centralized control (the "Mordor" scenario with total surveillance) or complete chaos where everyone has access to dangerous capabilities like creating weapons or viruses. Finding a middle path between these extremes is essential for society's survival, requiring careful equilibrium between accessibility and safety.5. Individual AI Labs Are Becoming Democratically Accessible: Gialluca outlines a tier system for AI capabilities, where individuals can now build "tier one" labs capable of fine-tuning models and processing massive datasets for tens of thousands of dollars. This democratization means that capabilities once requiring teams of PhD scientists can now be achieved by dedicated individuals, fundamentally changing the landscape of AI development and access.6. Hardware Constraints Are the New Limiting Factor: While AI capabilities are rapidly advancing, practical implementation is increasingly constrained by hardware availability and cost. RAM prices have tripled in recent months, and the challenge of managing enormous heat output from powerful processors requires sophisticated cooling systems. These physical limitations are becoming the primary bottleneck for individual AI development.7. Data Quality Over Quantity Is the Critical Challenge: The main bottleneck for AI advancement is no longer energy or GPUs, but high-quality data for training. Early data labeling efforts produced poor results because labelers lacked domain expertise. The future lies in reinforcement learning (RL) environments where AI systems can generate their own high-quality training data, representing a fundamental shift in how AI systems learn and develop.
Bichula welcomes Chuy the Podcaster to discuss a well-known classic movie by Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho. Sources—> Flitterman-Lewis, Sandy. "Psychoanalysis, Film, and Television." Channels of discourse: Television and contemporary criticism (1987): 172-210. PDF download.Mondal, Subarna. “‘Did He Smile His Work to See?'—Gothicism, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and the Art of Taxidermy.” Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, vol. 3, no. 1, 17044, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2017.44.Mukhiya, Renu. Failure of American Materialistic Culture in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Diss. 2016. https://elibrary.tucl.edu.np/ JQ99OgQIizUxyjI9nB0on9OyLkqsGIf4/api/core/ bitstreams/31e85404-523a-4009-8bcb-6315fa6748ec/contentRebello, Stephen. "Alfred Hitchcock and the making of Psycho." (2010). https://www.google. com/ books/edition/Alfred_Hitchcock_and_the_Making_of_ Psych/slQbvBz8YNwC? hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT20&printsec=frontcover
The good, the bad, and the transgressiveIs the transgression of norms and rules what brings history forward and allows for creativity and change? OR is the fetishization of transgression an ever-present danger that breaks down all structures of meaning and becomes totalizing in of itself?The limits and potentials of transgressiveness have been long debated, especially in rule-breaking Modernity. Listen to this lively conversation between three unlikely and profound thinkers - provocative cultural theorist Catherine Liu, former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, and psychoanalyst Josh Cohen - to hear what role transgression should, and should not, play in our societies. Hosted by philosopher Barry C. SmithPlease do email us at podcast@iai.tv with any of your thoughts or questions on the episode!To witness such debates live buy tickets for our upcoming festival: https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/And visit our website for many more articles, videos, and podcasts like this one: https://iai.tv/the-failures-of-liberalismYou can find everything we referenced here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
In this second episode of Was it just a dream?, we're invited to follow the symbol of the fish.We're inviting the fish to remain a fish, to swim swiftly, hard to grasp a hold of, turn into a concept, as we ask what kind of consciousness it might ask the dreamer, and us as dreamers to develop.Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack page.Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company.
(This is a sermon I preached earlier this year at First Assembly of God in Carl Junction)There is so much to pick apart in Balaam's story. There are a lot more strange things going on than just a talking donkey.For example, in the first chapter where Balaam appears, he does exactly what God says, and then it says that God wanted to kill him for it. Some men approached Balaam and asked him to curse the Israelites for them, and here's what it said:Numbers 22:20-2220 And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise, go with them; but only do what I tell you.” 21 So Balaam rose in the morning and saddled his donkey and went with the princes of Moab.So far so good, right? God says go. Balaam goes. 22 But God's anger was kindled because he went, and the angel of the Lord took his stand in the way as his adversary.It will even say later that this angel of the Lord was standing there to literally kill Balaam! But why- wasn't Balaam doing exactly what God wanted? That's the question we're going to analyze in this message.Watch these episodes at my Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LukeTaylorPodcastsNeed to get in touch with me? Reach me at GodAndHisProphetsPodcast@gmail.comIf you're looking for a Bible study podcast that goes deep into the major and minor prophets, God and His Prophets offers a verse by verse Bible study through these powerful Old Testament writings. Each episode explores the prophecy in the Bible, from the Book of Ezekiel study and later in Zechariah, helping listeners in understanding prophetic books and seeing their relevance today. We also connect the prophets' words to end times Bible teaching and highlight connections to Revelation, giving you a Christian Bible commentary that equips you for spiritual insight and growth.
RU374: GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE ON GENDER, SEXUALITY & PERVERSION AT THE NEW SCHOOL https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru374-genesis-breyer-p-orridge-on Rendering Unconscious episode 374. Back in 2013, Jamieson Webster invited me to co-teach a class with her on Gender, Sexuality and Perversion at the New School for Social Research in New York, and I invited Genesis Breyer P-Orridge to present to our class as a guest lecturer. My sister Stephanie Sinclair filmed the event, so I thought I'd post it here for all of you to enjoy! In this episode, Genesis explores the impact of societal expectations on individuals from conception, using performance art to explore human behavior. S/he describes he/r experiments with archetypal characters in the 1960s, leading to a realization of the theatrical nature of human presentation. S/he delves into he/r work utilizing shamanic techniques, physical stress, and rituals to reprogram the nervous system, including extreme experiences like being wrapped in wolf skins and suspended in a coffin. The conversation also touches on their journey towards pandrogeny, the concept of DNA as a control mechanism, and their quest for consciousness beyond the physical body, culminating in their belief in reincarnation and the search for a way to communicate beyond death. Check out previous episode(s) with this guest: RU370: GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE AT THE WARHOL MUSEUM https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru370-genesis-breyer-p-orridge-at News & updates: Tuesday, January 20th join Mary Wild as she presents her work on Lynchian Women on David Lynch's birthday: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lynchian-women-tickets-1968254153156 Proceeds raised go directly towards paying our presenter(s). This event will be recorded and made available for all those who register. Then on Saturday, February 7th, join me for the 4th installment of An Introduction to Psychoanalysis. Register by becoming a paid subscriber at RU Center for Psychoanalysis: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com You may watch the recordings of the first three classes HERE (+ all other RU Center events): https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/t/classes On Wednesday, February 18th, join us for Images from the Id: The Strange World of Psychic Photographer Ted Serios with Dr. Mikita Brottman. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/images-from-the-id-the-strange-world This event will be recorded and made available for all those who register. Register here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/drvanessasinclair/9 Proceeds raised go towards paying our presenter(s). Thank you for your support! See you soon! Rendering Unconscious is also a book series: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/3N6XKIl If you are interested in pursing psychoanalytic treatment with me, please feel free to contact me directly: https://www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ The song at the end of this episode is "A thin garden" from the album Loyalty Does Not End With Death by Carl Abrahamsson and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge from iDeal recordings. https://open.spotify.com/album/5jFTPjzm1EjeuTnCZLfI14?si=fbqk8IohQ1yCJpavdhu5eg Enjoy! Thank you for being a paid subscriber to Rendering Unconscious Podcast. It makes my work possible. If you are so far a free subscriber, thanks to you too. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to gain access to all the material on the site, including new, future, and archival podcast episodes. It's so important to maintain independent spaces free from censorship and corporate influence. Thank You. photo of Vanessa and Genesis by Stephanie Sinclair
RU375: CARL ABRAHAMSSON & VANESSA SINCLAIR – RENDERING UNCONSCIOUS/ THE FENRIS WOLF CROSSOVER EPISODE https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru375-carl-abrahamsson-and-vanessa Rendering Unconscious episode 375. In this special crossover episode between Rendering Unconscious and The Fenris Wolf podcasts, Carl and I talk about all we had going on this year and what's to come in the new year. Enjoy! This is also Carl's 22nd episode of RU Podcast! I've created a list of all RU episodes in chronological order, as well as in alphabetical by guest HERE to make it easy to find all your favorite episodes and guests. https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/episodes Join us at Patreon where we post exclusive content about our magical and artistic practices every week! We also meet for live monthly workshops with everyone at level 23 & up. https://www.patreon.com/c/vanessa23carl Carl posts exclusive content weekly at his Substacks, An Art Apart: https://anartapart.substack.com and The Fenris Wolf: https://thefenriswolf.substack.com Be sure to check out The Fenris Wolf series of books. https://amzn.to/41yE4AU Vanessa runs Rendering Unconscious Podcast: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com and RU Center for Psychoanalysis: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com and has a personal Substack as well: https://vanessa23carl.substack.com Be sure to check out the Rendering Unconscious series of books. https://amzn.to/3N6XKIl This year we will be teaching the following classes with Morbid Anatomy Museum. All courses are online and recorded for all who register: Introduction to Occulture with author Carl Abrahamsson, Begins February 21: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/introduction-to-occulture-with-author-carl-abrahamsson-begins-february-7 The Origins of the Nordic Magical Runes with Author and Occultist Carl Abrahamsson, Begins April 4: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/the-origins-of-the-nordic-magical-runes-with-author-carl-abrahamsson-begins-april-4 Make Your Own Magical Artwork Using the Cut-up Technique of David Bowie and William Burroughs, with Dr. Vanessa Sinclair and Author Carl Abrahamsson, Begins May 10: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/make-your-own-magical-artwork-using-the-cut-up-technique-of-david-bowie-and-william-burroughs-with-dr-vanessa-sinclair-and-author-carl-abrahamsson The Nightmare Before Christmas: Psychoanalyzing the films of Tim Burton with Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, Begins November 1: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/the-magical-fims-of-tim-burton And more to come! If you're in London, Carl will be in-person at Viktor Wynd Museum Monday, February 23rd presenting Fabulous Freaks of Yesteryear https://thelasttuesdaysociety.org/exhibition/fabulous-freaks-of-yesteryear-by-carl-abrahamsson-live/ And then Carl and I will be at the Freud Museum in-person Wednesday, February 25th for Surreal Secrets of the Psyche: The Creative Zeitgeist of Psychoanalysis, Film and the Avant-Garde. Join us! https://www.freud.org.uk/event/surreal-secrets-of-the-psyche-the-creative-zeitgeist-of-psychoanalysis-film-and-the-avant-garde/ Coming up on January 20th (David Lynch's birthday), Mary will present Projections: Lynchian Women. This will be the first RU Center event for 2026! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lynchian-women-tickets-1968254153156 Our next meeting of An Introduction to Psychoanalysis will be Saturday, February 7th. Recordings of RU Center events are archived under CLASSES. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/t/classes Wednesday, February 18th, we have Images from the Id: The Strange World of Psychic Photographer Ted Serios with Dr. Mikita Brottman. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/images-from-the-id-the-strange-world Carl Abrahamsson linktree https://linktr.ee/CarlAbrahamsson Vanessa Sinclair linktree https://linktr.ee/renderingunconscious
RU373: KATY BOHINC ON THE WINTER SOLSTICE, AI, PUBLISHING & ASTROLOGY IN 2026: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru373-katy-bohinc-on-the-winter-solstice Rendering Unconscious episode 373. In this episode, Katy and I cover a variety of topics, ranging from the impact of AI on society, to the benefits of self-care routines and the challenges of living in different climates. We touch upon the significance of the winter solstice and the importance of setting intentions. Katy discusses the implications of the upcoming Saturn-Neptune conjunction in February 2026, delving into potential political changes. We also reflect upon the economic impact of technology on publishing and other areas. Additionally, Katy shares personal anecdotes about her experience performing Trinity Star Trinity at eclipse festivals with her partner De Kai, author of Raising AI (2025). https://amzn.to/49kBraT Katy Bohinc is a poet and a data scientist; an avant-garde publisher and a professional marketer; an activist, an astrologer and an innovator. http://www.katybohinc.com Trinity Star Trinity: https://scarletimprint.com/publications/p/trinity-star-trinity THE RATIO: http://www.katybohinc.com/the-ratio/ Check out previous episodes: RU222: ASTROLOGER, POET & DATA SCIENTIST KATY BOHINC ON THE RATIO: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru222-astrologer-poet-and-data-scientist RU205: KATY BOHINC PRESENTS “POETRY AS MAGIC”: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru205-katy-bohinc-presents-poetry Thank you for supporting Rendering Unconscious Podcast and RU Center for Psychoanalysis. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com You may watch the recordings of all RU Center offerings HERE: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/t/classes News & updates: Coming up on Tuesday, January 20th join Mary Wild as she presents her work on Lynchian Women on David Lynch's birthday: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lynchian-women-tickets-1968254153156 Proceeds raised go directly towards paying our presenter(s). This event will be recorded and made available for all those who register. The next installment of An Introduction to Psychoanalysis will be on Saturday, February 7th: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/an-introduction-to-psychoanalysis-4af Then on Wednesday, February 18th, Mikita Brottman will be presenting a follow up lecture Images from the Id: The Strange World of Psychic Photographer Ted Serios: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/images-from-the-id-the-strange-world On February 25, I will be presenting "Surreal Secrets of the Psyche: The Creative Zeitgeist of Psychoanalysis, Film and the Avant-Garde" with Carl Abrahamsson in-person at Freud Museum, London: https://www.freud.org.uk/event/surreal-secrets-of-the-psyche-the-creative-zeitgeist-of-psychoanalysis-film-and-the-avant-garde/ See you soon! Rendering Unconscious is also a book series: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/3N6XKIl The song at the end of this episode is "And so it goes..." from the album Nile Recordings by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/nile-recordings-e-p Enjoy! Thank you for being a paid subscriber to Rendering Unconscious Podcast. It makes my work possible. If you are so far a free subscriber, thanks to you too. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to gain access to all the material on the site, including new, future, and archival podcast episodes. It's so important to maintain independent spaces free from censorship and corporate influence. If you are interested in pursing psychoanalytic treatment with me, please feel free to contact me directly: https://www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ Thank You.
The first episode of our new podcast series, Was it just a Dream?, is titled “I Don't Want to Hurt You.” Listen to the dream, and you will understand why. If you'd like to read the full dream, you can find it on our Substack page.Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company.
Richard Skinner from Local 12 joined us to discuss the Bengals and the unending hamster wheel of misery that's been the 2025 season. Podcasts of The Mo Egger Radio Show are a service of Longnecks Sports Grill.Listen to the show live weekday afternoons 3:00 - 6:00 on ESPN1530. Listen Live: ESPN1530.com/listenGet more: https://linktr.ee/MoEggerFollow on X: @MoEggerInstagram too: @MoEgger See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week on Health Matters, we're sharing an episode of NewYork-Presbyterian's Advances in Care, a show for listeners who want to stay at the forefront of the latest medical innovations and research. On this episode of Advances in Care, host Erin Welsh first hears from Dr. Richard Friedman, a clinical psychiatrist at NewYork-Presbyterian and Director of the Psychopharmacology Clinic at Weill Cornell Medicine. Using his background in psychopharmacology, Dr. Friedman distinguishes between psychedelics and standard antidepressants like SSRIs and SNRIs, explaining the various mechanisms in the brain that respond uniquely to psychedelic compounds. Dr. Friedman also identifies that the challenge of proving efficacy of psychedelic therapy lies in the question of how to design a clinical trial that gives patients a convincing placebo. To learn more about the challenges of trial design, Erin also speaks to Dr. David Hellerstein, a research psychiatrist at NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia. Dr. Hellerstein contributed to a 2022 trial of synthetic psilocybin in patients with treatment resistant depression. He and his colleagues took a unique approach to dosing patients so that they could better understand the response rates of patients who use psychedelic therapy. The results of that trial underscore an emerging pattern in the field of psychiatry – that while psychedelic therapy has its risks, it's also a promising alternative treatment for countless psychiatric disorders. Dr. Hellerstein also shares more about the future of clinical research on psychedelic therapies to potentially treat a range of mental health disorders.***Dr. Richard Friedman is a professor of clinical psychiatry and is actively involved in clinical research of mood disorders. In particular, he is involved in several ongoing randomized clinical trials of both approved and investigational drugs for the treatment of major depression, chronic depression, and dysthymia.Dr. David J. Hellerstein directs the Depression Evaluation Service at Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, which conducts studies on the medication and psychotherapy treatment of conditions including major depression, chronic depression, and bipolar disorder.___Health Matters is your weekly dose of health and wellness information, from the leading experts. Join host Courtney Allison to get news you can use in your own life. New episodes drop each Wednesday.If you are looking for practical health tips and trustworthy information from world-class doctors and medical experts you will enjoy listening to Health Matters. Health Matters was created to share stories of science, care, and wellness that are happening every day at NewYork-Presbyterian, one of the nation's most comprehensive, integrated academic healthcare systems. In keeping with NewYork-Presbyterian's long legacy of medical breakthroughs and innovation, Health Matters features the latest news, insights, and health tips from our trusted experts; inspiring first-hand accounts from patients and caregivers; and updates on the latest research and innovations in patient care, all in collaboration with our renowned medical schools, Columbia and Weill Cornell Medicine.To learn more visit: https://healthmatters.nyp.org
In this episode, I speak with Sean McGrath about his new book The Lost Road - A Search for the Soul of the West, a spiritual autobiography and a philosophical meditation on the soul of the West. Moving between personal narrative and cultural diagnosis, McGrath traces how the ancient fusion of Greek contemplation and Jewish revelation formed the heart of Western spirituality, how that inheritance fractured into secular modernity, and why consumerism has become our age's dominant, and destructive, false religion. I hope you will enjoy this conversation as much as I did!The book is available as e-book and paperback on the publisher Collective Inks website.
RU371: KLARA NASZKOWSKA ON SABINA SPIELREIN & EARLY WOMEN PSYCHOANALYSTS https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru371-klara-naszkowska-on-sabina Rendering Unconscious episode 371. Rendering Unconscious welcomes Klara Naszkowska back to the podcast! EARLY WOMEN PSYCHOANALYSTS 14-week doctoral-level course with Dr. Klara Naszkowska & Dr. Mark Beitel begins Wednesday, January 21. https://www.spielreinassociation.org/about-1 Feel free to contact Klara Naszkowska directly at spielrein @ spielreinassociation.org Be sure to pick up her book Early Women Psychoanalysts. History, Biography, and Contemporary Relevance (Routledge, 2024). https://amzn.to/3MyAUZY FREE Online Talk - Klara Naszkowska joined by Ana Tomcic to discuss her latest book ‘Early Women Psychoanalysts,' Freud Museum London on Wednesday, December 10th. https://www.freud.org.uk/event/early-women-psychoanalysts-history-biography-and-contemporary-relevance/ Register for Composing with Spielrein: Contemporary Applications of Sabina Spielrein's Work, International Interdisciplinary Conference, September 5-6, 2026, online. https://www.spielreinassociation.org/register Special issue of “American Imago” devoted to Sabina Spielrein. Guest Editor: Klara Naszkowska. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/53646?fbclid=IwY2xjawOjr2tleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBVSE95ZXZ4d0NuaTY5SkFLc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHvZKq98gFGt5ItKnoPvfiwgl6ydntxWogq7jhUvY1DGf8mEZckQww2huLl7i_aem_2K6FEA2Ua1Gxzk6S4U177A Check out previous episodes: RU288: KLARA NASZKOWSKA ON HER BOOK, EARLY WOMEN PSYCHOANALYSTS https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru288-klara-naszkowska-on-her-book RU107: KLARA NASZKOWSKA, CULTURAL HISTORIAN & DIRECTOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR SPIELREIN STUDIES https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru107-klara-naszkowska-cultural-historian News & updates: Saturday, December 13th, join me for the third installment of An Introduction to Psychoanalysis. Register by becoming a paid subscriber at RU Center for Psychoanalysis: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com You may watch the recordings of the first two classes HERE: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/t/classes Tuesday, January 20th join Mary Wild as she presents her work on Lynchian Women on David Lynch's birthday: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lynchian-women-tickets-1968254153156 Proceeds raised go directly towards paying our presenter(s). This event will be recorded and made available for all those who register. The song at the end of this episode is "Reconstruction Of History" from the album Nile Recordings by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/nile-recordings-e-p Enjoy! Thank you for being a paid subscriber to Rendering Unconscious Podcast. It makes my work possible. If you are so far a free subscriber, thanks to you too. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to gain access to all the material on the site, including new, future, and archival podcast episodes. It's so important to maintain independent spaces free from censorship and corporate influence. Thank You.
Welcome to Rendering Unconscious – the Gradiva award-winning podcast about psychoanalysis & culture, with me, Dr Vanessa Sinclair. https://renderingunconscious.substack.com On Monday December 8th, we have a very special event: Rendering Unconscious Podcast will be hosting our first live event with an audience! Welcome Alenka Zupančič and Todd McGowan as they discuss their work On Comedy. Alenka's book The Odd One In: On Comedy (MIT Press, 2008) and Todd's Only a Joke Can Save Us (Northwestern University Press, 2017) are two of my favorite books by them, and I'm so excited to be able to host them for this sure to be brilliant discussion! https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/monday-december-8-alenka-zupancic We will meet live via zoom on Monday, December 8th at 12 NYC (9AM San Francisco/ 5PM London/ 18:00 Stockholm/ 19:00 Beirut) for 90 minutes. All paid subscribers to Rendering Unconscious Podcast and RU Center for Psychoanalysis are welcome to attend! There will be plenty of time for Q&A/ discussion. This event will be recorded and posted at both Substacks, so don't worry if you can't attend live. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com Excited to see you all there! News & events: Saturday, December 13th we meet for the 3rd class in my year long Intro to Psychoanalysis course: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/intro-to-psychoanalysis-begins-september Thank you for listening to the Rendering Unconscious Podcast and for reading the Rendering Unconscious anthologies. And thank you so much for supporting this work by being a paid subscriber at the Substack. It makes my work possible. If you are so far a free subscriber, thanks to you too. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to gain access to all the material on the site, including all future and archival podcast episodes. https://renderingunconscious.substack.com Rendering Unconscious is also a book series! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry volumes 1:1 and 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024) available now! https://amzn.to/400QKR7 If you would like information about entering into psychoanalytic treatment with me or have other questions, please feel free to contact me via: vs [at] drvanessasinclair.net https://www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ Thank you.
Before pursuing a career as a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and founder of Fermata Psychotherapy, a psychoanalytic group practice in Chicago, Santiago Delboy, MBA, LCSW, spent over a decade climbing the corporate ladder in the US and his home country of Peru. The shift forced him to grapple with the "disagreeable" parts of himself. In a nod to the educational children's shows of old, this episode is brought to you by the word "becoming." Part two of my conversation with Santiago explores the art of becoming, a process he defines as connecting with our authentic self. GUEST BIO Santiago Delboy, MBA, LCSW, is a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and founder of Fermata Psychotherapy, a psychoanalytic group practice in Chicago. He has provided clinical supervision and consultation at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, the Institute for Clinical Social Work, and The Family Institute at Northwestern University. Prior to becoming a clinician, he spent over a decade working in the corporate world in Peru, his home country, and the U.S. His publications include essays in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Revista de la Sociedad Peruana de Psicoanálisis, Aeon, and Psychology Today. Join the Group Practice (R)evolution! GPR is a new platform and podcast series offering insights from owners, employees, and experts, and resources to support this wildly ambitious vision for the future. For a limited time, podcast listeners can get a full year of membership for only $19.99 by using the discount code PODCAST. Visit: https://tinyurl.com/GPRPodcast and click on "have a coupon" and enter PODCAST to enjoy all the perks of Group Practice (R)evolution for a year! Get Support! Earn CEs! Care in Chaos: https://tinyurl.com/CareInChaosRec Bridging Heart and Practice: https://tinyurl.com/TheSarahsOnlineSupe SUPPORT THE SHOW Conversations With a Wounded Healer Merch Join our Patreon for gifts & perks Shop our Bookshop.org store and support local booksellers Share a rating & review on Apple Podcasts *** Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places… Website Facebook @headheartbiztherapy Instagram @headheartbiztherapy
How well do we understand our relationship to sex? According to Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, authors of the new book Hatred of Sex (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), we tend to overlook the “unpleasurable pleasures” that are integral to sex. Sex undoes us, destabilizes us, takes us out of ourselves. Many of our 21st century cultural products—Queer Theory, traumatology, intersectional studies—secretly “hate” sex for these very reasons and build such hatred into their ideas. In our interview, Davis and Dean explain why a full understanding and experience of sex require our reckoning with these truths, and they offer conceptual tools for undertaking such a reckoning. This interview is a must-listen for anyone curious about the unspoken dimensions of sex. Oliver Davis is a professor of French studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Jacques Rancière and editor of Rancière Now. Tim Dean is James M. Benson Professor in English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking and Beyond Sexuality. Eugenio Duarte, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist practicing in Miami. He treats individuals and couples, with specialties in gender and sexuality, eating and body image problems, and relationship issues. He is a graduate and faculty of William Alanson White Institute in Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology in New York City and former chair of their LGBTQ Study Group; and faculty at Florida Psychoanalytic Institute in Miami. He is also a contributing author to the book Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Defining Terms and Building Bridges (2018, Routledge) and has published on issues of gender, sexuality, and sexual abuse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychoanalysis
How well do we understand our relationship to sex? According to Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, authors of the new book Hatred of Sex (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), we tend to overlook the “unpleasurable pleasures” that are integral to sex. Sex undoes us, destabilizes us, takes us out of ourselves. Many of our 21st century cultural products—Queer Theory, traumatology, intersectional studies—secretly “hate” sex for these very reasons and build such hatred into their ideas. In our interview, Davis and Dean explain why a full understanding and experience of sex require our reckoning with these truths, and they offer conceptual tools for undertaking such a reckoning. This interview is a must-listen for anyone curious about the unspoken dimensions of sex. Oliver Davis is a professor of French studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Jacques Rancière and editor of Rancière Now. Tim Dean is James M. Benson Professor in English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking and Beyond Sexuality. Eugenio Duarte, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist practicing in Miami. He treats individuals and couples, with specialties in gender and sexuality, eating and body image problems, and relationship issues. He is a graduate and faculty of William Alanson White Institute in Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology in New York City and former chair of their LGBTQ Study Group; and faculty at Florida Psychoanalytic Institute in Miami. He is also a contributing author to the book Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Defining Terms and Building Bridges (2018, Routledge) and has published on issues of gender, sexuality, and sexual abuse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
"We bring our patterns with us wherever we go, into every relationship, and we necessarily and inevitably bring them into the therapy relationship or the psychoanalytic relationship, because that's a relationship too. It's not a matter of choice. It simply happens. It happens everywhere. The therapist doesn't do anything to make it happen. This is the human condition. We bring our patterns. The thing that makes psychotherapy, psychotherapy, and not just another relationship, is that we do something different. What we do that's different is, instead of just repeating our same old patterns with a new person, we create the conditions where it becomes possible to notice the patterns, to recognize them, to put words to them, and understand them and discuss them. Out of that experience and that understanding comes the freedom to do things differently, to not have to repeat the same patterns. I always make a point, is that true for everyone? Does everybody need therapy? Well, everybody repeats earlier characteristic patterns. For some people, those patterns allow you to live a satisfying and rewarding life, with pleasure and connection and meaning and intimacy. So if that's the case, you're still repeating early patterns, but that's what it means to be human. However, some people are living out patterns that cause distress or limitation, that get in the way of living the life they could lead, and that's what we work with in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis." Episode Description: We begin our conversation on the importance of communicating our basic concepts in jargon-free language. Jonathan shares with us the limitations he finds in academic psychology, where analytic ideas are meaningfully misunderstood. We work our way through his paper discussing 'unconscious mental life', the 'mind in conflict', 'disavowal' (instead of 'repression') and 'psychic continuity' (instead of 'psychic determinism') to name but a few of the topics we cover. We recognize the analytic opportunity to discover the ways that we live in the childhood 'then' as opposed to the novel 'now'. Jonathan presents clinical material to demonstrate these concepts, including his own 'disavowal' as he began his analysis. We close with an appreciation of the importance of one's own affective discovery of these otherwise unconscious forces. I also note Jonathan's passion and clarity about our work. Our Guest: Jonathan Shedler, PhD is an author, consultant, and teacher. His article The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy helped establish psychoanalytic therapy as an evidence-based treatment. He's the author of over 100 scholarly articles, creator of the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP) for personality diagnosis and case formulation, and co-author of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. Follow Jonathan at: https://jonathanshedler.substack.com/. Recommended Readings: Schopenhauer's Porcupines by Deborah Luepnitz offers a series of case studies that read like short stories. They will give you a "feel" for what goes on in the clinical consulting room & in the mind of the clinician. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide by Nancy McWilliams offers a readable introduction to psychodynamic concepts and thinking. Freud and Man's Soul by Bruno Bettelheim offers real insight into the origins of psychoanalytic theory and how and why it is personally relevant to everyone. Therapeutic Communication by Paul Wachtel offers answers to the perennial clinician question, "What do I say and how do I say it?" Long-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy by Glen Gabbard is the closest thing to a comprehensive course in doing psychodynamic therapy. Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy by Alessandra Lema
RU6: STEVEN REISNER ON THE DANCE OF THE OCCULT & UNCONSCIOUS IN FREUD https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru6-steven-reisner-on-the-dance-of Rendering Unconscious episode 6. This episode of Rendering Unconscious is a lecture by Dr. Steven Reisner “On the Dance of Occult and Unconscious in Freud” given at Morbid Anatomy Museum, NYC, October 2016, as part of a lecture series hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair on Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult. In this lecture, Dr. Reisner explores Freud's interest in the occult and its implications for psychoanalytic theory. Reisner argues that Freud's curiosity extended beyond sexuality to include phenomena beyond sensory perception. He discusses Freud's experiments with telepathy and thought transference, emphasizing the importance of integrating denied knowledge. Reisner also highlights Freud's cautious approach to disseminating such knowledge, balancing scientific rigor with public perception. Additionally, Reisner links Freud's theories to contemporary issues like resistance to knowledge and the impact of narcissistic or traumatized parents on their children's sensitivity to occult phenomena. This talk was first presented at a conference organized by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson, exploring the intersections of Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult, held in London, May 2016. The Fenris Wolf 9 is a book of collected papers from this conference anthologized by Sinclair and Abrahamsson. https://amzn.to/3XXcwnd Steven Reisner, PhD is a psychoanalyst and political activist in New York. He is a founding member of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology, Advisor on Psychology and Ethics for Physicians for Human Rights and past-President of Psychologists for Social Responsibility. Follow him at Instagram https://www.instagram.com/drreisner/ News & updates: On Wednesday, December 3rd, join us as we explore Freud's life-long interest in telepathy – Phantoms of the Clinic: From Thought-Transference to Projective Identification with Dr. Mikita Brottman. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/phantoms-of-the-clinic-from-thought This event will be recorded and made available for all those who register. Register here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/drvanessasinclair/9 Proceeds raised go towards paying our presenter(s). Thank you for your support! The song at the end of this episode is "Butterfly effect" from the album All p03ts are p0rn0graph3rs by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy available at https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/all-poets-are-pornographers-13 Enjoy! Thank you for being a paid subscriber to Rendering Unconscious Podcast. It makes my work possible. If you are so far a free subscriber, thanks to you too. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to gain access to all the material on the site, including new, future, and archival podcast episodes. It's so important to maintain independent spaces free from censorship and corporate influence. Thank You.
RU370: GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE AT THE WARHOL MUSEUM https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru370-genesis-breyer-p-orridge-at As Hannah Haddix and I spoke a bit about Genesis and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge in the previous episode RU369, I thought I'd share this talk Gen gave at the closing event weekend for their exhibition S/HE IS HER/E at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh in 2013, curated by Nicholas Chambers. I had the good fortune to accompany Gen for this weekend, and s/he asked me to record this talk. Enjoy! All month, I've been posting my course on Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art to RU Center for Psychoanalysis Substack. All 4 classes are up now, and include my in depth look at the life and work of Genesis and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/t/classes News & updates: On Wednesday, December 3rd, join us as we explore Freud's life-long interest in telepathy – Phantoms of the Clinic: From Thought-Transference to Projective Identification with Dr. Mikita Brottman. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/phantoms-of-the-clinic-from-thought This event will be recorded and made available for all those who register. Register here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/drvanessasinclair/9 Proceeds raised go towards paying our presenter(s). Thank you for your support! Monday, December 8th, Rendering Unconscious Podcast will be hosting our first live event with an audience! Welcome Alenka Zupančič and Todd McGowan as they discuss their work On Comedy. We will meet live via zoom on Monday, December 8th at 12 NYC (9AM San Francisco/ 5PM London/ 18:00 Stockholm/ 19:00 Beirut) for 90 minutes. https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/monday-december-8-alenka-zupancic All paid subscribers to RU Podcast and RU Center are welcome to attend live and will receive the recording! Then on Saturday, December 13th, join me for the third installment of An Introduction to Psychoanalysis. Register by becoming a paid subscriber at RU Center for Psychoanalysis: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com You may watch the recordings of the first two classes HERE: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/t/classes Tuesday, January 20th join Mary Wild as she presents her work on Lynchian Women on David Lynch's birthday: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lynchian-women-tickets-1968254153156 Proceeds raised go directly towards paying our presenter(s). This event will be recorded and made available for all those who register. The song at the end of this episode is "Arbiter ov Elegance" from the album Loyalty Does Not End With Death by Carl Abrahamsson and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge from iDeal recordings. https://open.spotify.com/album/5jFTPjzm1EjeuTnCZLfI14?si=fbqk8IohQ1yCJpavdhu5eg Enjoy! Thank you for being a paid subscriber to Rendering Unconscious Podcast. It makes my work possible. If you are so far a free subscriber, thanks to you too. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to gain access to all the material on the site, including new, future, and archival podcast episodes. It's so important to maintain independent spaces free from censorship and corporate influence. Thank You.
All of us show up with multiple identities (partner, parent, revolutionary, etc.). How do we, as therapists, get better at existing in discomfort and creating space where everyone can explore without rushing to define themselves? Santiago Delboy, MBA, LCSW, is a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and founder of Fermata Psychotherapy, a psychoanalytic group practice in Chicago. I consider Santiago a true in-betweener (or, n'betweener©, the term coined by previous guest Nora Alwah for those who, like herself, feel suspended between two (or more) identities; not fully inhabiting one or the other). My assessment isn't an indictment; it's an invitation. How can we transmute the discomfort of the unknown into collective growth? GUEST BIO Santiago Delboy, MBA, LCSW, is a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and founder of Fermata Psychotherapy, a psychoanalytic group practice in Chicago. He has provided clinical supervision and consultation at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, the Institute for Clinical Social Work, and The Family Institute at Northwestern University. Prior to becoming a clinician, he spent over a decade working in the corporate world in Peru, his home country, and the U.S. His publications include essays in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Revista de la Sociedad Peruana de Psicoanálisis, Aeon, and Psychology Today. *** Join the Group Practice (R)evolution! GPR is a new platform and podcast series offering insights from owners, employees, and experts, and resources to support this wildly ambitious vision for the future. For a limited time, podcast listeners can get a full year of membership for only $19.99 by using the discount code PODCAST. Visit: https://tinyurl.com/GPRPodcast and click on "have a coupon" and enter PODCAST to enjoy all the perks of Group Practice (R)evolution for a year! SUPPORT THE SHOW Conversations With a Wounded Healer Merch Join our Patreon for gifts & perks Shop our Bookshop.org store and support local booksellers Share a rating & review on Apple Podcasts *** Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places… Website Facebook @headheartbiztherapy Instagram @headheartbiztherapy