Podcasts about Psychoanalysis

In Silicon Eden, the loss of the immortality project means a collapse of meaning and a gaping hole where a value system used to be. Right now, the only good news is that you will be far from the first to go through this problem.SourcesEliot, T.S. The Waste Land. 1922.Eliot, Valerie, ed. The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts. 1971.ietzsche, Friedrich. The Gay Science. 1882Kierkegaard, Søren The Sickness Unto Death. 1849.Camus, Albert. The Myth of Sisyphus. 1942.Jung, Carl. "The Stages of Life," in The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (Collected Works, Vol. 8).Jaques, Elliott. "Death and the Mid-life Crisis." International Journal of Psychoanalysis 46 (1965): 502–514.Hollis, James. The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife. Inner City Books, 1993.Becker, Ernest. The Denial of Death. 1973.Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aggression gehört zur psychischen Entwicklung – bei Männern wie bei Frauen. Doch sie zeigt sich nicht immer auf dieselbe Weise. Bei Aggression geht es dabei um mehr als Wut: um Selbstbehauptung, Abgrenzung, Konkurrenz und die Fähigkeit, das eigene Wollen zu vertreten. In dieser Folge fragen wir, warum weibliche Aggression häufig weniger offen erscheint und wie sie sich vielleicht stattdessen etwa im Sich-klein-Machen, in indirekter Konkurrenz, Selbstzweifeln oder gegen das eigene Selbst gerichteten Formen ausdrücken kann. Wir sprechen auch darüber, warum es für eine gelingende Entwicklung wichtig ist, die eigene Aggression nicht abzuspalten, sondern sie so zu integrieren, dass man sich behaupten, unterscheiden und seinen eigenen Weg gehen kann, ohne Beziehung als bedroht erleben zu müssen. Folge zu: "Die Pseudogemeinschaft": https://www.patreon.com/raetseldesubw/posts/lyman-wynne-die-159273459 Unser Hörbuch "Jetzt bin ich schon wie meine Eltern": https://www.patreon.com/collection/2029837 (Kollektion kaufen = Einmalkauf Hörbuch) Ausschnitt und Infos: https://www.patreon.com/posts/151955086?collection=2029837 Literaturempfehlung zur Folge: - Fredric N. Busch (2009): Anger and depression. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 15, S. 271–278. - Deanna Holtzman & Nancy Kulish (2003): The Feminization of the Female Oedipal Complex, Part II: Aggression Reconsidered. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 51(4), S. 1127–1151. - Harriet E. Lerner (1980): Internal Prohibitions against Female Anger. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 40(2), S. 137–148. Skript zur Folge: https://www.patreon.com/raetseldesubw/posts/tiefseeltauchen-169835326/edit Rätsel-des-Unbewussten-Abo als Geschenk: https://www.patreon.com/raetseldesubw/gift Beschreibung der Level-Inhalte: https://www.patreon.com/c/raetseldesubw/membership Wenn ihr alle bisher erschienenen handgebundenen Hefte bekommen wollt (12 Hefte) => Jahresabo auf dem Level "Liebhaber" - Vertiefungsfolge "Beendigung von Therapien" auf Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/127931630 - Folge zu Glenn Gabbard und den "liebeskranken" Analytiker: https://www.patreon.com/posts/121877727?collection=148939 Kontakt: lives@psy-cast.org Erziehungskonzepte psychoanalytisch betrachtet (5 Teile): https://www.patreon.com/collection/148943 Digitaler Lesekreis zum Thema "Wie die Digitalisierung unsere psychische Struktur verändert" (1. Folge ist frei zugänglich): https://www.patreon.com/posts/lesekreis-werner-94838102 - Bestellung unseres Buches über genialokal: https://www.genialokal.de/Produkt/Cecile-Loetz-Jakob-Mueller/Mein-groesstes-Raetsel-bin-ich-selbst_lid_50275662.html und überall, wo es Bücher gibt. Auch als Hörbuch! - Link zu unserer Website: www.psy-cast.de - **Wir freuen uns auch über eine Förderung unseres Projekts via Paypal**: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=VLYYKR3UXK4VE&source=url Hilfsmöglichkeiten bei psychischen Krisen: https://www.stiftung-gesundheitswissen.de/gesundes-leben/psyche-wohlbefinden/hilfe-bei-psychischen-problemen-diese-stellen-koennen-sie-sich In psychischen Krisen können auch Hausarzt/ärztin, Psychiater/in und Psychotherapeut/innen Ansprechpartner sein. In Notfällen kann man sich zudem an eine psychiatrische Klinik wenden - Anmeldung zum Newsletter: https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/394929/87999492964484369/share Musik: Evergreen, Kintsugi (licenced via premiumbeat.com)

Andrew Scull is a historian of psychiatry. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep502-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/andrew-scull-transcript CONTACT LEX: Feedback – give feedback to Lex: https://lexfridman.com/survey AMA – submit questions, videos or call-in: https://lexfridman.com/ama Hiring – join our team: https://lexfridman.com/hiring Other – other ways to get in touch: https://lexfridman.com/contact EPISODE LINKS: Andrew’s Website (UCSD faculty page): https://sociology.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/emeritus/andrew-scull.html Desperate Remedies (book): https://amzn.to/4vmBquI Madness in Civilization (book): https://amzn.to/3SZhd0I SPONSORS: To support this podcast, check out our sponsors & get discounts: Wispr Flow: AI-powered voice dictation app. Go to https://wisprflow.ai/lex Fin: AI agent for customer service. Go to https://fin.ai/lex LMNT: Zero-sugar electrolyte drink mix. Go to https://drinkLMNT.com/lex Shopify: Sell stuff online. Go to https://shopify.com/lex BetterHelp: Online therapy and counseling. Go to https://betterhelp.com/lex Perplexity: AI-powered answer engine. Go to https://perplexity.ai/ OUTLINE: (00:00) – Introduction (01:07) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections (08:10) – Crisis in Psychiatry (37:48) – Categories of Mental Illness (45:07) – Asylums, Eugenics, and the Nazis (57:13) – The Ice Pick Lobotomy (1:03:26) – Malaria “Cure” for Syphilis (1:21:42) – Insulin Coma Therapy (1:29:34) – Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) (1:49:03) – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (2:06:35) – Freud and Psychoanalysis (2:36:30) – WWII and Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) (2:57:04) – Antipsychotics (3:20:24) – Antidepressants (3:33:18) – Future of Psychiatry PODCAST LINKS: – Podcast Website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast – Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr – Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 – RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ – Podcast Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 – Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/lexclips

What if God had created Eve not at Adam's service, but acknowledging his human condition of helplessness and absolute dependence on another human being? What may be the influence of this Western myth of the creation of civilization upon our subjectivity, especially regarding gender differences? These and other interesting questions are posed by Susana Muszkat in this paper about male violence and its naturalization in society. According to her, gender-biased behaviors associated with masculinity (and femininity) are sustained by fixed cultural codes and repeated unconsciously across generations, in the absence of interventions aimed at deconstructing them. Is it God's fault, or is it the way we read the myth? Susana Muszkat is a psychologist and psychoanalyst, a full member and faculty member of the Brazilian Psychoanalytical Society of São Paulo. She sees adults, couples, and families in private practice and in institutions. Susana has a master's degree in Social Psychology, which led her to studies on masculinity, violence, and gender, and to coordinating talk groups for men convicted of domestic violence for 15 years, where she had the opportunity to reflect on the “social construction of masculinity.” She noted that men get trapped in static roles and cultural demands—as they are always expected to be strong, have courage, and engage in risky behaviors—differently from what is expected of women. According to her, this ends up affecting their mental health, generating violence as a product of having to maintain this Ideal Ego. In an attempt to get rid of feelings of insecurity, they react with violence. Susana coined the term “violence from identity distress” for this emotional condition.   Susana is a former IPSO President and has served on several IPA committees. She currently chairs the Institutional Issues Committee and was recently awarded first prize by the Community and the World Committee on Health and Psychoanalysis at the 2025 Lisbon Congress for her joint paper on the SOS Brazil project. She has published articles, book chapters, and books in several languages on this and other subjects. This episode is presented in English and Portuguese. portuguese You can download a copy of the paper here. This podcast series is produced by the International Psychoanalytical Association as part of the activities of the IPA Outreach Subcommittee.    Chair: Gaetano Pellegrini  Podcast Coordinator: Florencia Biotti This episode produced by: Sylvia Pupo Editing and Post-Production: Massimiliano Guerrieri   Cover Image: Titian, Venus and Adonis, 1554. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Public domain.  

Julie Reshe is a Ukrainian-born philosopher, a practicing negative psychoanalyst, and a public intellectual. She is currently a visiting professor at University College Cork and University College Dublin. She is also a Director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies.Reshe's site: https://www.juliereshe.comNegative Essays: https://www.negativepress.ie/negative-essaysUnderground Negative Course on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/juliereshe/posts/169150042Underground Negative Course on Substack: https://juliereshe.substack.com/p/negative-course---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix:Patreon - / hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpodHermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLKEthereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9

Watch this RU episode here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru422-on-upcoming-events-at-ru-center Rendering Unconscious is now at Substack: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com RU422: ON UPCOMING EVENTS AT RU CENTER FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS & NEW PSYCHOANALYTIC SUPERVISION GROUPS Welcome to this special episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast, where I review the past year of RU Center for Psychoanalysis and delineate what we having coming up in the second year! Rendering Unconscious episode 422. On this episode, I discuss upcoming programming at RU Center for Psychoanalysis, including two year long study groups: one on Dr. Lara Sheehi's From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (2026) and another on Reading Lacan's Seminar XXIV. I also review what we have done at RU Center over the past year and announce my psychoanalytic supervision groups, which launch in October! https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com Join in any time! All classes and events at RU Center have been recorded and archived at RU Center for Psychoanalysis Substack under CLASSES so you haven't missed a thing. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/t/classes You may find the SCHEDULE of upcoming and past events HERE. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/schedule I am also launching psychoanalytic supervision groups that begin in October! Join Dr. Sinclair's Psychoanalytic Supervision Groups HERE. https://drvanessasinclair.substack.com/about News and events: See you THIS Saturday, September 12th, for the final class in my year long An Introduction to Psychoanalysis course! We'll be taking a look at the life and work of Frantz Fanon, liberation psychology, R.D. Laing, Thomas Szasz, and the anti-psychiatry movement, as well as Patricia Gherovici's The Puerto Rican Syndrome (2003). We will be meeting online for 2 hours beginning at 18:00 Stockholm (9AM Vancouver/ 12PM NYC/ 5PM London/ 19:00 Beirut). MORE INFO & SIGN UP HERE. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/see-you-tomorrow-for-an-intro-to Monday, October 5th: Dr. Lara Sheehi will be joining us to present on Fanon. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/renderingunconsciouscenterforpsychoanalysis/2392312 This will provide a foundation for the close reading we will be doing of her book From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (2026), beginning Saturday, November 14th and running through December 11th, 2027. On Wednesday, October 14th, Mary Wild returns with Neurosis On Film, as part of her Projections series of events on psychoanalysis and cinema. MORE INFO & REGISTER HERE. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurosis-on-film-tickets-1998161293217 Saturday, October 24th, Dr. Dan Collins will introduce his translation of Lacan's Seminar XXIV. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/renderingunconsciouscenterforpsychoanalysis/2394013 This will jumpstart our second year long study group: Reading Lacan's Seminar XXIV, beginning Saturday, November 21st and running through November 13th, 2027. Rounding out October, Dr. Mikita Brottman presents The Uncanny as Creative Catalyst, Wednesday, October 28th. MORE INFO & REGISTER HERE. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/renderingunconsciouscenterforpsychoanalysis/2341560 All paid subscribers at RU Center for Psychoanalysis receive ZOOM LINKS to attend ALL RU Center events LIVE, PLUS events are recorded and archived under CLASSES, so you may watch them at your own pace. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com The two year-long study groups are reserved for paid subscribers at RU Center for Psychoanalysis. But you do not have to be a paid subscriber to RU Center for Psychoanalysis to attend the other events! You may register for individual events by clicking on the links provided. Proceeds raised in this fashion go towards paying our presenters. Links to everything can be found at: https://linktr.ee/renderingunconscious

Retirement has afforded Ann Stanford, age 75, “unbelievable luxury—the space and freedom to let things bubble up.” She savors this time to reflect on how she really wants to live and what it means to become fully herself. Always a writer, a former mentor to adult learners, and now a spiritual companion, Ann is committed to “telling my own truths”—and helping others express theirs. Psychoanalysis and contemplative practice have opened the door to “profound spiritual experiences,” helping Ann move beyond a difficult childhood and later struggles with depression and addiction. She is deeply grateful for the “mooring” provided by family and community, as well as for the space that silence and solitude have given her to listen inward. Ann lives by a simple but powerful maxim: “Don't be afraid of the demons. Trust other people to help you. The answers are in you.”"If ever I lose my intellectual and physical functioning, I pray I will still have a place inside myself that welcomes me." - Ann StanfordConnect with Ann: astanfor@depaul.eduThanks to our Platinum Sponsor, AARP Illinois, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering people 50 and older to choose how they live as they age. With nearly 1.7 million members in Illinois, AARP volunteers advocate for better health, financial security, and stronger communities. Visit AARP.org/IL to learn more.Shining the Light on the Age-Wise Collective: Adriane Berg, host of the podcast, Ageless Traveler—stories from people 50+ who never want to stop traveling. https://agelesstraveler.com/podcasts/

Today, I'm talking to Tom Wooldridge, who is a is a board-certified clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and certified eating disorders specialist whose work sits at the intersection of psychoanalytic theory, the treatment of eating disorders—particularly in men and boys—and the developmental impact of digital technology. Tom is Vice Provost for Digital Innovation and founding Dean of the School of Psychology at Golden Gate University, where he directs the Human Systems Lab on how AI and emerging technologies affect people and institutions, and he holds training and supervising analyst appointments at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. He is the author or editor of six books, including End the Food Fight (Guilford Press, 2026), with a foreword by Susie Orbach, and more than twenty-five peer-reviewed articles. In 2024 he received the JAPA Award for the year's outstanding paper in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. In today's episode, Tom is going to talk about his new book End The Food Fight (Replacing Control with Connection to Help Your Child Heal from an Eating Disorder). Tom has some incredible insights and advice on how to support your struggling child, whilst maintaining connection and relationship with them - SO vital in the healing process. I hope that you enjoy the conversation. To get in touch with Tom and/or to find out more about his work: https://www.tomwooldridge.com/eating-disorders  

Rendering Unconscious is now at Substack: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com Welcome to this special episode of Rendering Unconscious! RU421: Sobre la traducción de Género sin Identidad (On the Translation of Gender Without Identity) https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru421-sobre-la-traduccion-de-genero Sobre la traducción de Género sin Identidad y otros retos para el psicoanálisis contemporáneo (On the Translation of Gender Without Identity and Other Challenges for Contemporary Psychoanalysis) Rendering Unconscious episode 421. On this episode, authors Ann Pellegrini and Avgi Saketopoulou join translators Carolina Besoain, Tomás Ojeda and Andrea Rihm of Colectivo Trenza, to discuss the Spanish translation of Gender Without Identity, Género sin Identidad, published by Alejandro Cerda Rueda of Paradiso Editores. Hosted by Erika Olmos Rosas of Casa Trieb. Follow Paradiso Editores on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/paradisoeditores/ Check out previous episode(s): RU413: ON THE SPANISH TRANSLATION OF GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY BY PARADISO EDITORES: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru411-ann-pellegrini-avgi-saketopoulou News & events: September 12th is the final class in my Intro to Psychoanalysis year long course! We'll focus on Frantz Fanon and liberation psychology, and take a look at Thomas Szasz, R.D. Laing and the anti-psychiatry movement, as well as Patricia Gherovici's The Puerto Rican Syndrome. That will set us up nicely for what we're diving into next: a close reading of From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (2026) by Dr. Lara Sheehi. Paid subscribers at RU Center for Psychoanalysis Substack gain access to all RU Center events! https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com Rendering Unconscious is also a book: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/4sOqSEu 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 pursuing psychoanalytic treatment or supervision with me, please feel free to contact me directly: www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ Links to everything can be found at: https://linktr.ee/renderingunconscious Enjoy! Thank You.

Watch the full episode here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru420-luca-di-gregorio-on-lacan-in Rendering Unconscious is now at Substack: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com RU420: DR LUCA DI GREGORIO ON LACAN IN ITALY: CLINIC, POLITICS, AESTHETICS Rendering Unconscious welcomes Dr. Luca Di Gregorio to the podcast! He's here to talk about his new book Lacan in Italy: Clinic, Politics, Aesthetics (2025). https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-91528-4 Rendering Unconscious episode 420. On this episode, Luca discusses his book, Lacan in Italy: Clinic, Politics, Aesthetics (2025), which explores the reception and impact of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Italy. Luca elaborates on the ways in which his doctoral project expanded from the aesthetic domain to include clinical, political, and social aspects. He highlights the mainstreaming of psychoanalysis in Italy, its public discourse, and the contributions of Italian Lacanians like Massimo Recalcati. Luca emphasizes the transformative power of psychoanalysis, its integration into medical education, and shares his own personal journey. We also touch upon the potential for psychoanalysis to address contemporary issues and the importance of cross-cultural exchange in psychoanalytic thought. Luca Di Gregorio is Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Education in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton, UK, and Deputy Director of the Southampton Centre for Medical and Health Humanities. News & events: Next up at RU Center, The Poetry of Psychoanalysis series with author and astrologer Emmalea Russo continues September 6th on DH Lawrence and his Fantasia of the Unconscious for the Autumn Equinox: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/renderingunconsciouscenterforpsychoanalysis/2315469 September 12th is the final class in my Intro to Psychoanalysis year long course! We'll focus on Frantz Fanon and liberation psychology, and take a look at Thomas Szasz, R.D. Laing and the anti-psychiatry movement, as well as Patricia Gherovici's The Puerto Rican Syndrome. That will set us up nicely for what we're diving into next: a close reading of From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (2026) by Dr. Lara Sheehi. Paid subscribers at RU Center for Psychoanalysis Substack gain access to these and all RU Center events! https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com Rendering Unconscious is also a book: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/4sOqSEu 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 pursuing psychoanalytic treatment or supervision with me, please feel free to contact me directly: www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ As always, huge thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for providing the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. https://linktr.ee/CarlAbrahamsson The song at the end of this episode is "Transmit" from the album "Dream exploded". https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/dream-exploded-7 Support indie artists and musicians! Visit Pete's Bandcamp: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com Our music is also available at Spotify and other streaming services. https://open.spotify.com/artist/3xKEE2NPGatImt46OgaemY Links to everything can be found at: https://linktr.ee/renderingunconscious Enjoy! Thank You.

Bu bölümde Lacan'ın yaptığı, aşk ve duvar sözcüklerinin birleşiminden oluşan bir kelime oyunu olan l'(a)mur kavramı üzeriden psikanalitik açıdan aşkın ne olduğu hakkında konuşmaya devam ettik.*Psikanalizin Öteki Yüzü seminer dizisinin detayları için: https://oguzhannacak.com/etkinlikler/pad-2026-2027**Philippe Sollers'le yapılan röportaj için: https://blogs.mediapart.fr/mithra-nomadeblues/blog/160818/pour-ou-contre-lacanBu bölümde sözü geçen eserler şunlardır:Allouch, Jean. L'amour Lacan. Paris: Epel, 2009.Lacan, J. (1998). The Seminar, Book XX: Encore, çev. B. Fink. Norton.Lacan, J. (2006). “The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis.” Écrits, çev. B. Fink, 197–268. Norton.Lacan, J. (2017). Talking to Brick Walls, çev. A. R. Price. Polity.Lacan, J. (2018). The Seminar, Book XIX: …or Worse, çev. A. R. Price. Polity.Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/psikanalizsohbetleri/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/PsikanalizS ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.oguzhannacak.com/

In this episode of The Dream Journal, host Katherine Bell speaks with psychotherapists and artists Willow Pearson Trimbach and Eva Tuschman Leonard about their book The Emotional Truth of Dreams: Learning from Dream Dialogues in Psychotherapeutic and Spiritual Practice. Together they explore how dreams reveal emotional truth, invite deep listening, and open pathways into creativity, spirituality, and relationship. Willow and Eva describe the difference between emotional reactivity and emotional truth, the grace of dreaming, and the practice of allowing dreams to remain mysterious while continuing to unfold meaning over time. They also discuss waking dreams, nested dreams, nonduality through multiplicity, interbeing, dream dialogue, and the creative exchange between dream life and artistic practice. The conversation also includes a listener question about dreamlike experiences during meditation and shared consciousness, leading into reflections on waking life as a dynamic dream field. This episode is for anyone interested in dreamwork, depth psychology, psychotherapy, spirituality, creativity, lucid living, and the mystery of how dreams speak to the soul. Topics Covered: • Dreams as the source of emotional truth • Dream dialogue in psychotherapy and spiritual practice • The difference between reactivity and deeper responsiveness • Grace, reverence, and the mystery of dreaming • Nonduality, multiplicity, and “nothing is other” • Waking dreams, nested dreams, and altered states of awareness • Creativity, music, ceramics, visual art, and dream inspiration • Finding a dream companion or soul friend Keywords: dreamwork, dream interpretation, emotional truth of dreams, Willow Pearson Trimbach, Eva Tuschman Leonard, The Emotional Truth of Dreams, psychotherapy and dreams, spiritual practice, depth psychology, dream dialogue, waking dreams, nested dreams, nonduality, creativity and dreams, The Dream Journal, Katherine Bell, Experiential Dreamwork BIOS: Willow Pearson Trimbach, PsyD, LMFT, MT-BC is Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the Clinical Psychology Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is a psychologist, psychotherapist, music therapist, author, singer, and songwriter. Willow's first book, co-edited with Helen Marlo, is The Spiritual Psyche: Mysticism, Intersubjectivity and Psychoanalysis, Her most recent album, Caesura's Cry was released in July, 2025. Eva Tuschman Leonard is a psychotherapist, writer, and artist based in Sonoma, California, with degrees from Stanford and The Wright Institute. Influenced by over two decades of meditation practice, her integrative therapeutic style balances resilience-building tools with the exploration of existential, spiritual, and creative dimensions of life. Her first book, Bodywork, explores illness, grief and desire through her drawings and written reflections. Guest Links: • Book website: emotionaltruthofdreams.com • Eva Tuschman Leonard: Evatuschman.com • Willow Pearson Trimbach: Drwillowpearson.com • Music and creative work: Lionessroars.org This show, episode number 378, was recorded during a live broadcast on August 29, 2026 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz. SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question or enquire about being a guest on the podcast by emailing Katherine Bell at katherine@ksqd.org. Follow on LI, IG, YT, FB, & LT @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com. Video podcast available at youtube.com/@experientialdreamwork. Popular playlists: “Dream Journal shorts” and “FULL LENGTH VIDEOS”. Here are links to some other Dream Journal episodes you might be interested in: Jungian Psychology, Creativity, and the Music of the Unconscious with Dr Michael Mollura Putting the Psyche back in Psychology with Jungian Eva Rider Intro and outro music by Mood Science. Ambient music new every week by Rick Kleffel. Archived music can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick for also engineering the show and to Erik Nelson for answering the phones. The Dream Journal aims to: Increase awareness of and appreciation for nightly dreams. Inspire dream sharing and other kinds of dream exploration as a way of adding depth and meaningfulness to lives and relationships. Improve society by the increased empathy, emotional balance, and sense of wonder which dream exploration invites. A dream can be meaningful even if you don’t know what it means. The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM. Catch it streaming LIVE at KSQD.org 10-11am Pacific Time on Saturdays. Call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at onair@ksqd.org. Podcasts are available on all major podcast platforms the Monday following the live show. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal/. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Available on all major podcast platforms. Rate it, review it, subscribe, and tell your friends.

Listen in as we dive deep on the topic of therapy with VIN Foundation Vets4Vets® team member Dr. Michele Gaspar in this Inhale, Exhale podcast series. In this episode we have 15 major topics we're addressing: Why people reach out for therapy Difference between therapy and coaching Different types of therapy How to find a therapist How to pay for therapy Determining a good fit Therapy frequency Red flags Confidentiality Identifying goals Is important for the therapist to have a relevant background to your situation Does therapy have a timeline How do you terminate therapy When is it appropriate to seek psychiatric support How do you find a psychiatrist As always, we want to hear from YOU. Please share your thoughts by sending an email or joining the conversation.   GUEST BIO: Michele Gaspar, DVM, MA, LCPC Michele Gaspar is a veterinarian and a psychotherapist. She is a 1994 graduate of the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine and received her Master's in counseling from Loyola University/Chicago in 2012. Michele has worked in a variety of settings in both of her professional careers. As a veterinarian, she has had experience in general practice, emergency and critical care, shelter medicine and feline-exclusive medicine. As a therapist, she has worked in community mental health, group psychotherapy practices, hospital chaplaincy and now owns a private psychotherapy practice in Chicago. Michele is a consultant in Feline Internal Medicine on the Veterinary Information Network (VIN), where she also co-facilitates the NAVLE Review Workshop and offers webinars to veterinarians on psychosocial issues that impact veterinary clinical practice. As a member of the VIN Foundation's Vets4Vets® team, she facilitates an annual mindfulness retreat for veterinarians each Fall and consults with veterinary colleagues and students who wish to access local mental health resources. She is an advanced candidate at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and is a Fellow of the American Balint Society. LINKS AND INFORMATION: Find A Therapist/Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists Fifty Therapy Red Flags: https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathanshedler/p/50-therapy-red-flags?r=n0o0o&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web What Is CBT?: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/what-is-cognitive-behavioral-therapy-202406053047 What is DBT?: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/dialectical-behavior-therapy-what-is-it-and-who-can-it-help-202401223009 What is Psychodynamic Therapy?: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-65-2-98.pdf VIN Foundation Vets4Vets®: https://vinfoundation.org/v4v VIN Foundation Connect with Vets4Vets®: https://vinfoundation.org/resources/vets4vets-connect/ VIN Foundation get updates: https://vinfoundation.org/updates/ VIN Foundation GIVE page to support these programs & tools: https://vinfoundation.org/give You may learn more about the VIN Foundation, on the website, or join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn. If you like this podcast, we would appreciate it if you follow and share.

In this episode, Jungian scholar Paul Bishop joins Jungian analyst-in-training Emma Iovoli to explore Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and C.G. Jung's complex relationship with Nietzsche.Drawing on Bishop's recent book, Jung and the Epic of Transformation, Volume 3, they explore some of Zarathustra's most powerful images, from the eagle and serpent to the camel, lion and child, and what they reveal about psychological transformation.The conversation moves from Jung and Nietzsche's encounters with the depths of the psyche to Christianity, the death of God, and the question of what transformation might mean today. In an age of AI and post-humanism, what does it mean to overcome ourselves without losing sight of what it means to be human?Purchase Paul Bishops latest book.The music played in this episode is licensed under creativecommons.org: Ketsa - From deep down

Send us comments, suggestions and ideas here! In this week's episode we conclude our three part journey through the seventeen stages of the heroes journey as laid out by Joseph Campbell in his seminal work “Hero with a Thousand Faces.” In the free section of the show we discuss THE ULTIMATE BOON which we explore in its various manifestations including the traditional narcotic coded drink of the gods and heroes; soma. We also discuss the reluctance to return from the journey (looking at you Odysseus), the magick shapeshifting flight and the occasional need (plot twist) for the hero to be rescued from without. In the extended show we Cross the Threshold and explore what exactly that means, if it's even possible to describe it; which is the next, difficult step which gives way to the journey coming full circle, the work accomplished and freedom rings once more. Thank you and enjoy the show.In this week's episode we discuss:The Ultimate BoonSigns of MasterySurviving the ReturnSomaThe Refusal To ReturnThe Magic FlightShokoshimbutsu MummiesMagickal TransformationIn the extended episode available at http://www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we discuss:Crossing the Return ThresholdThe Inconsistency Between the Two WorldsRip Van WinkleMaster of the Two WorldsThe BagavadghitaReconciliation With the Universal WillThis episode was written by Luke Madrid in collaboration with Tim Hacker who wrote the skeleton of the schizo's journey for each seventeen stages with commentaries. Additional commentaries by Mari Sama and Heka Astra.Where to find The Whole Rabbit:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0AnJZhmPzaby04afmEWOAVYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@thewholerabbit936Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_whole_rabbitTwitter: https://twitter.com/1WholeRabbitOrder Stickers: https://www.stickermule.com/thewholerabbitOther Merchandise: https://thewholerabbit.myspreadshop.com/Music By Spirit Travel Plaza:https://open.spotify.com/artist/30dW3WB1sYofnow7y3V0YoSources:Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. 3rd ed., New World Library, 2008.https://ia601406.us.archive.org/30/items/Birdsfrogsandmirrors/JosephCampbell%20-%20The%20Hero%20With%20a%20Thousand%20Faces%20Commemorative%20Edition.pdfSupport the show

Watch the full episode here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru419-jason-haaf-and-scooter-laforge Rendering Unconscious is now at Substack: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com RU419: JASON HAAF & SCOOTER LAFORGE ON WASTELAND, THIRD MINDS & MADONNA WEARING SCOOTER'S DESIGN Rendering Unconscious welcomes Jason Haaf and Scooter LaForge to the podcast! Rendering Unconscious episode 419. On this episode, Jason and Scooter discuss their collaboration on the book Wasteland and share various personal anecdotes, start brewing plans for potential future projects, and were pleased to have a special cut-in by Little Annie. Jason delves into his interest in cut-ups and the work of William Burroughs, while Scooter highlights his art show now on view at Material for the Arts NYC, as well a mural he recently painted in the East Village on 2nd Street between Avenues C and D, a collaboration with Barrier Free Living. He also mentions the launch of his new website Scooter LaForge Studio, featuring his t-shirts including a shirt Madonna recently wore on the Graham Norton show when promoting Confessions II. Follow Jason Haaf https://www.instagram.com/haafwit/ Scooter LaForge https://www.instagram.com/scooterlaforge Scooter LaForge Garments https://www.instagram.com/scooterlaforgegarments/ You may find your favorite RU Podcast episodes and guests here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/episodes News & events: Next up at RU Center, The Poetry of Psychoanalysis series with author and astrologer Emmalea Russo continues September 6th on DH Lawrence and his Fantasia of the Unconscious for the Autumn Equinox: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/renderingunconsciouscenterforpsychoanalysis/2315469 September 12th is the final class in my Intro to Psychoanalysis year long course! We'll focus on Frantz Fanon and liberation psychology, and take a look at Thomas Szasz, R.D. Laing and the anti-psychiatry movement, as well as Patricia Gherovici's The Puerto Rican Syndrome. That will set us up nicely for what we're diving into next: a close reading of From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (2026) by Dr. Lara Sheehi. Paid subscribers at RU Center for Psychoanalysis Substack gain access to these and all RU Center events! https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com Rendering Unconscious is also a book: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/4sOqSEu 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 pursuing psychoanalytic treatment or supervision with me, please feel free to contact me directly: www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ As always, huge thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for providing the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. https://linktr.ee/CarlAbrahamsson The song at the end of this episode is "High Strung" from the album "Nervous Shakedown" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy, featuring Little Annie: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/nervous-shakedown Support indie artists and musicians! Visit Pete's Bandcamp: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com Our music is also available at Spotify and other streaming services. https://open.spotify.com/artist/3xKEE2NPGatImt46OgaemY Links to everything can be found at: https://linktr.ee/renderingunconscious Enjoy! Thank You.

Watch the full lecture here: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/recording-an-intro-to-psychoanalysis This is the 10th class in An Introduction to Psychoanalysis, which you may read about here: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/introduction-to-psychoanalysis-with We looked at the work of Jean Laplanche and the ways in which his ideas lend themself well to queer theory, reviewed The Queerness of Psychoanalysis (2025), Heinz Kohut and Self Psychology, before venturing into Transpersonal Psychology a la Abraham Maslow and Stanislav Grof. Finally, the class concluded with a look at Israel Regardie, a Reichian lay analyst at the crossroads of 20th-century psychoanalysis and occultism. Our final Intro class will be on Saturday, September 12th! We will focus on Frantz Fanon and liberation psychology, Thomas Szasz, R.D. Laing, and the anti-psychiatry movement, as well as Patricia Gherovici's Gradiva award-winning The Puerto Rican Syndrome (2003). This will set us up nicely for what we're diving into next: a close reading of From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (2026) by Dr. Lara Sheehi. Lara will be joining us here at RU Center on Monday, October 5th to present on Fanon and set us up to dive into her book. Stay tuned, more on that to come! You may join in anytime! The recordings of all previous classes in this course are archived under CLASSES, where you may watch them at your own pace. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/t/classes News & events: Next up at RU Center, The Poetry of Psychoanalysis series with author and astrologer Emmalea Russo continues September 6th on DH Lawrence and his Fantasia of the Unconscious for the Autumn Equinox: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/renderingunconsciouscenterforpsychoanalysis/2315469 All paid subscribers at RU Center for Psychoanalysis Substack receive zoom links to attend all RU Center events LIVE plus are able to access the recordings of ALL RU Center events at the Substack. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com RU Center for Psychoanalysis offers quality psychoanalytic classes and lectures online: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com For a full schedule of events visit: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/schedule Philip K Dick: Paranoid Iconoclast with Author Carl Abrahamsson, Begins September 6 via Morbid Anatomy Museum: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/philip-k-dick-paranoid-iconoclast-with-author-carl-abrahamsson If you are interested in pursing psychoanalytic treatment or supervision, please feel free to contact me directly: https://www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ Thank You.

Listen to the full episode here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru417-aliza-einhorn-reads-vanessa Rendering Unconscious is now at Substack: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com RU418: ALIZA EINHORN READS VANESSA SINCLAIR'S NATAL CHART UTILIZING ASTROLOGY & TAROT Rendering Unconscious welcomes Aliza Einhorn back to the podcast! She's here to read my natal chart. Rendering Unconscious episode 418. On this episode, Aliza reads my natal chart. We delve into my astrological profile, focusing on my Cancerian traits. Aliza highlights Jupiter's transit from my 12th house of Cancer and the unconscious to my 1st house of Leo and the self, and its significance, as well as my being a Leo rising, born on a full moon in Capricorn in the sixth house of work, plus having Venus, Mars, Chiron and Midheaven in Taurus in the 10th house, indicating career success. We also discuss Aliza's book Tarot of the Unconscious. https://amzn.to/4gINByi Aliza is a Tarot reader, Tarot teacher, astrologer, and lifelong writer (and graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop). She's the author of the brand new Tarot of the Unconscious: Uncovering the Hidden Link Between Psychoanalysis and the Cards (2026). She‘s a psychoanalyst-in-training in New York City. And, yes, she does do readings and is also available for in-person psychoanalytic treatment. https://alizaeinhorn.com https://www.instagram.com/psychoanalysisbookshelf/ https://moonplutoastrology.com Be sure to check out RU406: ALIZA EINHORN ON TAROT OF THE UNCONSCIOUS You may find your favorite RU Podcast episodes and guests here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/episodes News & events: Next up at RU Center, The Poetry of Psychoanalysis series with author and astrologer Emmalea Russo continues September 6th on DH Lawrence and his Fantasia of the Unconscious for the Autumn Equinox: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/renderingunconsciouscenterforpsychoanalysis/2315469 September 12th is the final class in my Intro to Psychoanalysis year long course! We'll focus on Frantz Fanon and liberation psychology, and take a look at Thomas Szasz, R.D. Laing and the anti-psychiatry movement, as well as Patricia Gherovici's The Puerto Rican Syndrome. That will set us up nicely for what we're diving into next: a close reading of From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (2026) by Dr. Lara Sheehi. Paid subscribers at RU Center for Psychoanalysis Substack gain access to these and all RU Center events! https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com Rendering Unconscious is also a book: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/4sOqSEu 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 pursuing psychoanalytic treatment or supervision with me, please feel free to contact me directly: www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ As always, huge thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for providing the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. https://linktr.ee/CarlAbrahamsson The song at the end of this episode is "Open the Portal" from the album "Indulgence, Not Abstinence" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/indulgence-not-abstinence-12 Support indie artists and musicians! Visit Pete's Bandcamp: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com Our music is also available at Spotify and other streaming services. https://open.spotify.com/artist/3xKEE2NPGatImt46OgaemY Links to everything can be found at: https://linktr.ee/renderingunconscious Enjoy! Thank You.

Daniel Tutt and returning guest C. Derick Varn join Steve to discuss their new book, The People Are Not One: Socialist Strategy After Left Populism, whose title states its thesis outright. When the left speaks of a unified people confronting a corrupt elite, it conceals the real stratifications inside the working class and borrows a Manichean framework that functions identically on the right. Their argument: since 2008, from Occupy through Syriza, Podemos, Corbyn, and Sanders, left populism has served to extinguish the class antagonism at the center of socialism, operating as a new Popular Front in which liberalism holds the upper hand.The conversation lands directly on this show's own history. Varn is blunt about his long-running argument with MMT advocates: he never disputed the nature of the currency, he disputed the analysis of power. They are not going to let you have a Job Guarantee, because it removes their ability to discipline workers. Steve agrees, describing his own path out of economism and the trap of thinking a basket of policies and a few more progressives in office adds up to a threat to capital.On class consciousness, Varn is careful with a term he calls one of the most abused in socialist history. The reason to organize around the working class is not its victimhood. It is that the working class already possesses, collectively, the skills to reproduce society. The differences within the working class are resolvable. The difference between the working class and those who live off its labor is not.They close on electoralism. Varn's formulation: electoralism is a tactic, not a principle. Democracy is the principle. Tutt points to Lenin's actual position, that ballots are justified only alongside extra-parliamentary means and on terms of strict class independence. The Popular Front let liberalism lead. The United Front did not.If you've followed this show from Ep 218 - Beware! the Counter-Revolution with C. Derick Varn, through Ep 318 - The Death of the Left? with Simon Winlow & Steve Hall, Ep 371 - You Can't Vote Away Colonialism with Fadhel Kaboub, and Ep 388 - From Theory to Praxis: Lenin's Revolutionary Formula with Breht O'Shea, this episode is the strategic argument those conversations kept circling. Daniel Tutt is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family and How to Read Like a Parasite. His writing has been featured in Jacobin, Current Affairs, Philosophy Now and Aeon Magazine. He is the host of the Emancipations podcast and study group collective. Find him on Twitter @TuttReal or his Substack: https://danieltutt.substack.com/aboutC. Derick Varn is an author, poet, and educator, and host of the podcast Varn Vlog, where he publishes podcasts and series on the great thinkers, and interviews authors and academics. He is the author of Apocalyptics and Liberation and All That Bright Etc. He has been a union rep for the past six years. Find him on Twitter @TheRealVarnVlog or his podcast https://varnvlog.buzzsprout.com/

Watch the full episode here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru417-chrishauna-dishel-on-the-mental Rendering Unconscious is now at Substack: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com RU417: CHRISHAUNA DISHEL ON THE MENTAL ILLNESS OF PATRIARCHY & RACISM, EMBRACING THE DARKNESS, RE-WILDING & BREAKING THE MATRIX Rendering Unconscious welcomes Chrishauna DiShel to the podcast! Rendering Unconscious episode 417. On this episode, Chrishauna and I dish about presenting in our dear friend Katelan Foisy's recent course “Break the Frame.” Chrishauna discusses her work as a multimedia artist and love embodiment coach, sharing her journey as an intuitive and magician. She delves into the challenges of societal expectations, including the mental illness of patriarchy and racism, and highlights the importance of embracing one's darkness and authenticity in order to re-wild and break the matrix. We also touch upon the intersection of psychoanalysis, magic, and art, and the need for curiosity, exploration, and open-mindedness. Chrishauna is a multi-media artist based in Paris. Follow her on Instagram at CarbonBloc: https://www.instagram.com/carbonbloc/ LoveEmbodiedCoaching at Instagram & TikTok: https://www.instagram.com/loveembodiedcoaching/ Check out her music at Spotify/Apple Music/Deezer (all streaming platforms) CarbonBloc. You may find your favorite Rendering Unconscious Podcast episodes and guests here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/episodes RU Center news & updates: Our next event is Saturday, August 15th, with the next installment of An Introduction to Psychoanalysis. On Jean Laplanche, queer theory, Heinz Kohut, Self Psychology, Transpersonal Psychology, Abraham Maslow and Stanislav Grof, as well as Israel Regardie, an interesting character at the crossroads of 20th-century psychoanalysis and occultism. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/an-intro-to-psychoanalysis-continues-c7e Rendering Unconscious is also a book: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/4sOqSEu 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 pursuing psychoanalytic treatment or supervision with me, please feel free to contact me directly: www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ As always, huge thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for providing the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. https://linktr.ee/CarlAbrahamsson https://thefenriswolf.substack.com https://anartapart.substack.com The song at the end of this episode is "Keep Movin' On" by CarbonBloc and Dyem Sighta. Available at Spotify and other streaming services. Links to everything can be found at: https://linktr.ee/renderingunconscious Enjoy! Thank You.

Watch the full discussion here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru416-klara-naszkowska-and-ana-tomcic Rendering Unconscious welcomes Drs. Klara Naszkowska and Ana Tomčić back to the podcast! Rendering Unconscious episode 416. On this episode, Klara and Ana discuss their upcoming course "Early Women Psychoanalysts," which will span 14 sessions, starting in September. The course will cover 17 early women psychoanalysts, with Klara focusing on historical and cultural aspects and Ana on clinical applications. Each session will last two hours, including a 10-minute break. The course aims to rewrite and update psychoanalytic history and contemporary thought by integrating these often-overlooked figures' theories and practices, emphasizing the importance of historical justice and the relevance of these women's contributions today. Klara Naszkowska, PhD (she/her) is an educator, research scholar, and writer whose work focuses on the intersections of Jewish women's history, psychoanalysis, Nazi persecution, migration, and memory. She is Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Montclair State University (NJ). Ana Tomčić, PhD (she/her) is a cultural historian and psychoanalytic trainee at the Society for Social and Critical Psychoanalysis in Cornwall, UK. Be sure to check out: RU399: EARLY WOMEN PSYCHOANALYSTS WITH KLARA NASZKOWSKA, ANA TOMČIC, CANDICE DUMAS, HÅVARD NILSEN & DÓRA SZABÓ: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru399-early-women-psychoanalysts You may find your favorite Rendering Unconscious Podcast episodes and guests here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/episodes –––––– Fourteen-session online course: Early Women Psychoanalysts Co-taught by Klara Naszkowska and Ana Tomčić Format: 14 Saturdays, spread over the academic year, 12:00-2:00 PM (New York), from September 26, 2026 to June 26, 2027 Includes: Free digital copy of Early Women Psychoanalysts For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.earlywomenpsychoanalysts.com/ Composing with Spielrein: Contemporary Applications of Sabina Spielrein's Work, International interdisciplinary conference, September 5-6, 2026 online. Registration is now OPEN! More info and REGISTER HERE. https://www.spielreinassociation.org/register Conference fee: £10 Second International Conference on Early Women Psychoanalysts The International Association for Spielrein Studies is pleased to announce the Second International Conference on Early Women Psychoanalysts, dedicated to women who engaged with psychoanalysis before the end of World War II. The conference will be held online on April 10–11, 2027. For further details and the Call for Papers please visit: https://www.spielreinassociation.org/conference-early-women-psychoanalysts RU Center news & updates: Our next event is Saturday, August 15th, with the next installment of An Introduction to Psychoanalysis. On Jean Laplanche, queer theory, Heinz Kohut, Self Psychology, Transpersonal Psychology, Abraham Maslow and Stanislav Grof, as well as Israel Regardie, an interesting character at the crossroads of 20th-century psychoanalysis and occultism. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/an-intro-to-psychoanalysis-continues-c7e Rendering Unconscious is also a book: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/4sOqSEu If you are interested in pursuing psychoanalytic treatment or supervision with me, please feel free to contact me directly: www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ As always, huge thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for providing the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. https://linktr.ee/CarlAbrahamsson Links to everything can be found at: https://linktr.ee/renderingunconscious Thank You.

"How do we continue doing this work when the socio-political realities are unimaginable? I've been living in Paris the last few years, and I continue to have a full caseload in Tehran and other cities. There was a time that the internet was cut off for our Iranian patients, so there is reality, and then there is a reality that actually affects the frame -  they couldn't contact their analyst. But in the middle of all of these things, something very interesting came up, which is, some patients, as soon as there was the possibility of contacting me, they would find a way. There were other things that came up in the supervisions I was doing, particularly if the analysts were outside of Iran and the patients were in Iran. For example, one thing that came up in the supervision was that the analyst would write to the patient all the time, saying, "Are you safe? Are you okay?"  That's not something I chose to do. When we discussed this and reflected upon this in the supervisions I felt like the analysts were feeling quite guilty for feeling that they are in a safe place and the patients weren't, or they were at times terrified of the aggression that could be awaiting them in the session. It was in a sense like a little bit of an acting out on the part of the analyst."  Episode Description: We begin by acknowledging the ongoing war and Gohar's safety in Paris while many of her patients remain in Iran. We explore what this gradient  in danger between analyst and analysand means and evokes for both parties. Gohar notes that many supervisees contact their patients to ask, "Are you OK?" and she invites them to reconsider this response. She also describes working with Russian colleagues, many of whom were abandoned by their Western supervisors after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This leads to a discussion of analytic work with patients whose political views sharply differ from those of their analysts. Gohar reflects on Jonathan Lear's concept of "radical hope" and shares her perspective on the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. She closes by reminding us that, even with those we regard as 'other,' "our emancipation is inherently intertwined, whether we like it or not." Linked Episodes: https://ipaoffthecouch.org/2022/10/15/episode-120-foreignness-the-blues-and-psychoanalysis-in-iran-with-gohar-homayounpour-psyd-tehran/ https://ipaoffthecouch.org/2025/09/21/episode-189-when-we-feel-provoked-by-the-politics-of-our-patients-with-heribert-blass-dr-med-md-dusseldorf-germany/ Our Guest: Gohar Homayounpour PsyD is a psychoanalyst and author. She is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Italian Psychoanalytical Society, and the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP). She is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the Freudian Group of Tehran, of which she is  the founder and past president. She is a member of the scientific board of the Freud Museum in Vienna and of the IPA group Geographies of Psychoanalysis. She serves on the editorial board of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Vestigia and Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. She is also the editor-in-chief of the series Psychoanalytic Notebooks, published in Iran by Ghatreh Publishing House. Her first book, Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran won the Gradiva Award and has been translated into many languages. Her latest book is Persian Blues: Psychoanalysis and Mourning.    Recommended Readings:  Homayounpour, G. (2012). Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.   Homayounpour, G. (2022). Persian Blues: Psychoanalysis and Mourning. London: Routledge.   Lear, J. (2006). Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.   Busch, F., & Delgado, N. (Eds.). (2024). The Ego and the Id: 100 Years Later. London: Routledge.   Lorena Preta (2024). Geographies of Psychoanalysis - Encounters in Tehran. London: Routledge.   Bolognini, S., & Nicoli, L. (2024). Freud and the Changing World: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Its Troubles. Bicester, UK: Phoenix Publishing House.  

Send us comments, suggestions and ideas here! In this week's episode we take the first step on the journey through The Hero of a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell and discuss, with nerd-like passion, the nuance surrounding each specific stage of the hero's journey as explained in the text. For a podcast that geeks out about symbolism; it doesn't get much more bread and butter than this. In the free side of the show we make it through the first four stages of the heroes journey: The Mundane World, The Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call and Supernatural Aid; touching upon the variety (or lack thereof) you can expect in each stage while using mythology both modern and classic as guide posts along the way. In the extended show we discuss Crossing the Threshold, the tremendous ordeal of being swallowed within the Belly of the Whale and the laundry list of trials each hero faces on their path to either Mordor or tax season. Thank you and enjoy the show.DISCLAIMER:I think we need to clear up some confusion. First of all, I'm very tired. Secondly, I'm very tired. Thirdly, the book we're studying, Hero with a Thousand Faces is by Joseph Campbell but is BASED upon Carl Jung's ideas of the collective unconscious, the archetypes and the path to individuation by interaction with. When you're manically alternating between exhaustion and manic excitement it's easy to get the Cs and Js confused ok?? That being said, Jung is quoted numerous times throughout the text. At this point just assume we've mixed up the names a number of times during  this specific recording. My apologies. I'll sleep when I'm dead. In this week's show we discuss:-The World of the NPC: The Office, the Shire and Tatooine -The Call to Adventure: Neo, Barbie and Danny from the Shining-Refusal of the Call: King Minos, Cypher and Luke Skywalker-Supernatural Aid: Morphes, Beatrice of Dante's Inferno, Weird Barbie-Magickal Black-Man Tropes In the extended show available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we go further down the heroes rabbit hole (gross) and discuss:-Crossing the Threshold: Walking Through the Mirror, Entering the Temple, Vagina Dentata-The Belly of the Whale: Being Pilled, The Trash Compactor, Jonah-The Road of Trials: John Wick, Hercules, Pan's Labrynth and Alice in Wonderland. This episode was written by Luke Madrid in collaboration with Tim Hacker who wrote the skeleton of the schizo's journey for each seventeen stages with commentaries. Additional commentaries by Mari Sama and Heka Astra.Where to find The Whole Rabbit:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0AnJZhmPzaby04afmEWOAVInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_whole_rabbitTwitter: https://twitter.com/1WholeRabbitOrder Stickers: https://www.stickermule.com/thewholerabbitOther Merchandise: https://thewholerabbit.myspreadshop.com/Music By Spirit Travel Plaza:https://open.spotify.com/artist/30dW3WB1sYofnow7y3V0YoSources:Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. 3rd ed., New World Library, 2008.https://ia601406.us.archive.org/30/items/Birdsfrogsandmirrors/JosephCampbell%20-%20The%20Hero%20With%20a%20Thousand%20Faces%20Commemorative%20Edition.pdfSupport the show

Watch the full video here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru416-marco-posadas-confessions-ii Rendering Unconscious is now at Substack: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com RU415: MARCO POSADAS – CONFESSIONS II: ON MADONNA, LGBTQI+ COMMUNITY & MAKING PSYCHOANALYSIS ACCESSIBLE Rendering Unconscious welcomes Dr. Marco Posadas back to the podcast! Rendering Unconscious episode 415. On this episode, Marco and I explore a variety of topics ranging from the challenges and rewards of our profession to the impact of Madonna's music and activism. We dish about her new album Confessions II. Marco shares personal anecdotes, including his early exposure to psychoanalysis and what Madonna's music and support has meant to the LGBTQI+ community. We also discuss the significance of psychoanalysis and the importance of its accessibility, as well as unique aspects of Latin American psychoanalytic traditions. Dr. Marco Posadas is a psychoanalyst with a clinical practice in Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, Clinical Supervision and Consultation in Toronto, Canada. He is co-editor of Working Psychoanalytically with Gender Diversity and Sexualities: Resistances to Differences published by Routledge (2025). https://link.amazon/B0az7AyzB Be sure to check out our previous conversation: RU414: MARCO POSADAS ON CELEBRATING PRIDE & PSYCHOANALYSIS AS ESSENTIALLY QUEER You may find your favorite Rendering Unconscious Podcast episodes and guests here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/episodes RU Center news & updates: Our next event is Saturday, August 15th, with the next installment of An Introduction to Psychoanalysis. On Jean Laplanche, queer theory, Heinz Kohut, Self Psychology, Transpersonal Psychology, Abraham Maslow and Stanislav Grof, as well as Israel Regardie, an interesting character at the crossroads of 20th-century psychoanalysis and occultism. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/an-intro-to-psychoanalysis-continues-c7e Rendering Unconscious is also a book: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/4sOqSEu 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 pursuing psychoanalytic treatment or supervision with me, please feel free to contact me directly: www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ As always, huge thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for providing the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. https://linktr.ee/CarlAbrahamsson https://thefenriswolf.substack.com https://anartapart.substack.com The song at the end of this episode is "Potentially epic, that kick" from the album "Indulgence not Abstinence" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/indulgence-not-abstinence-12 Support independent artists and musicians! Visit Pete's Bandcamp: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com Our music is also available at Spotify and other streaming services. https://open.spotify.com/artist/3xKEE2NPGatImt46OgaemY Links to everything can be found at: https://linktr.ee/renderingunconscious Enjoy! Thank You.

How do Jacques Lacan, Islamic mysticism, Henri Corbin, and Iranian art films help us understand the modern crisis of meaning? […]

Watch the full video here: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/recording-two-renegade-sexologists Join RU CENTER FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS at Substack: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com TWO RENEGADE SEXOLOGISTS: ON PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS & THE SEXUAL CRIMINAL: A PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDY with Dr. Mikita Brottman This lecture considers the life and work of two renegade sexologists: Richard von Krafft-Ebing, and J. Paul de River. The aristocratic Krafft-Ebing was a German psychiatrist and author of the seminal Psychopathia Sexualis. J. Paul de River was the chief psychiatrist of the Los Angeles Sex Offense Bureau during the 1940s and author of The Sexual Criminal: A Psychoanalytic Study. The work of these two eccentric, obsessive, and sometimes deluded psychiatrists provide compelling time-capsules into the dark underbelly of 19th century Vienna, and the sordid backstreets of mid-century Los Angeles. Mikita Brottman is Professor of Literature at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. She has a D.Phil from Oxford University in English Language and Literature, and is an NAAP certified psychoanalyst. She performs forensic evaluations for the National Institute for the study, prevention and treatment of sexual trauma. She is also the author of 15 nonfiction books, the latest of which, Guilty Creatures (Simon & Schuster, 2024) was described by the New York Times as “an unputdownable read.” https://mikitabrottman.com News & updates: Our next event is Saturday, August 15th, with the next installment of An Introduction to Psychoanalysis. We'll look at Jean Laplanche and his influence on queer theory, Heinz Kohut and Self Psychology, Transpersonal Psychology a la Abraham Maslow and Stanislav Grof, as well as Israel Regardie, an interesting character at the crossroads of 20th-century psychoanalysis and occultism. MORE INFO & REGISTER HERE: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/an-intro-to-psychoanalysis-continues-c7e RU Center's next event with Mikita is scheduled for Wednesday, October 28th: The Uncanny as Creative Catalyst with Dr. Mikita Brottman. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/renderingunconsciouscenterforpsychoanalysis/2341560 This will be a taste of a 4 week course she is giving via Morbid Anatomy Museum: The Uncanny as Creative Catalyst with Author and Psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman, Ph.D., Begins November 11. https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/syo9i8m3saiiszq3b97cc6e5kr251e And before that she is teaching Reading and Writing True Crime with Author and Psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman, PhD, Begins September 15 via Morbid Anatomy Museum. https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/reading-and-writing-true-crime-with-true-crime-author-and-psychoanalyst-mikita-brottman-phd All these events are online and will be recorded! If you are interested in pursuing psychoanalytic treatment or supervision with me, please feel free to contact me directly: www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ As always, huge thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for providing the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious. https://linktr.ee/CarlAbrahamsson https://thefenriswolf.substack.com https://anartapart.substack.com The song at the end of this episode is "Invisible Womb" from the album "Indulgence not Abstinence" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/indulgence-not-abstinence-12 Support independent artists and musicians! Visit Pete's Bandcamp: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com Our music is also available at Spotify and other streaming services. https://open.spotify.com/artist/3xKEE2NPGatImt46OgaemY Links to everything can be found at: https://linktr.ee/renderingunconscious Enjoy! Thank You.

Watch the full video here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru412-marco-posadas-on-celebrating Rendering Unconscious is now at Substack: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com RU414: MARCO POSADAS ON CELEBRATING PRIDE & PSYCHOANALYSIS AS ESSENTIALLY QUEER Rendering Unconscious welcomes Dr. Marco Posadas to the podcast! Rendering Unconscious episode 414. On this episode, Marco discusses his 28-year career in the mental health field. He focuses on LGBTQI+ communities, emphasizing the importance of making psychoanalysis accessible to marginalized groups. Dr. Marco Posadas is a psychoanalyst member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), clinical social worker, licensed psychologist (MEX), and earned his PhD at Smith College School for Social Work in Northampton, Massachusetts. He operates a clinical practice in Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, Clinical Supervision and Consultation in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Posadas is a member of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and the Mexican Psychoanalytic Association. He is the inaugural Chair of the Gender and Sexual Diversity Studies Committee of the IPA. He is co-editor of Working Psychoanalytically with Gender Diversity and Sexualities: Resistances to Differences published by Routledge (2025). https://link.amazon/B03Nna4MU Check out previous episode(s): RU413: ON THE SPANISH TRANSLATION OF GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY BY PARADISO EDITORES: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru411-ann-pellegrini-avgi-saketopoulou RU247: ANN PELLEGRINI & AVGI SAKETOPOULOU ON GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru247-ann-pellegrini-and-avgi-saketopoulou You may find your favorite Rendering Unconscious Podcast episodes and guests here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/episodes RU Center news & updates: Our next event is Saturday, August 15th, with the next installment of An Introduction to Psychoanalysis. We'll look at Jean Laplanche and his influence on queer theory, Heinz Kohut and Self Psychology, Transpersonal Psychology a la Abraham Maslow and Stanislav Grof, as well as Israel Regardie, an interesting character at the crossroads of 20th-century psychoanalysis and occultism. MORE INFO & REGISTER HERE: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/an-intro-to-psychoanalysis-continues-c7e Rendering Unconscious is also a book: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/4sOqSEu 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 pursuing psychoanalytic treatment or supervision with me, please feel free to contact me directly: www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ As always, huge thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for providing the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. https://linktr.ee/CarlAbrahamsson https://thefenriswolf.substack.com https://anartapart.substack.com The song at the end of this episode is "Open the Portal" from the album "Indulgence not Abstinence" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/indulgence-not-abstinence-12 Support independent artists and musicians! Visit Pete's Bandcamp: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com Our music is also available at Spotify and other streaming services. https://open.spotify.com/artist/3xKEE2NPGatImt46OgaemY Links to everything can be found at: https://linktr.ee/renderingunconscious Enjoy! Thank You.

Send us comments, suggestions and ideas here! In this week's episode we explore if there is any truth behind the well loved, pop-psychology meme going around the internet the last few years detailing THE SILENT WAR; a covert struggle for the mind's of the masses between a decentralized group of marginalized schizo-autists and a loosely affiliated cadre of enfranchised psychopathic elites: or more simply, the secret war between the schizos and the psychos - a theory that proponents claim is as old as time and offers us a new perspective on the dynamics between the hidden genius of charismatic predators who run things from the shadows and the weirdos like us who happen to notice them but can't seem to get normal people to listen until it's too late. In the extended show we go into even deeper detail on how psychopaths manipulate the herd and some examples of exactly how it works all the way from the geopolitical stage to the work place. Lastly, we talk about how to identify and defend against the psychopath and hits plots. Thank you and enjoy the show! In this week's episode we discuss:History of the Meme|The Schizoid Alkaholikier Philip K. Dick's correlaries in UbikAutist vs. Schizo MaskingWhat is a Psycho? In the extended episode available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we go even further to discuss: Schizoposting Socioeconomic TheoryWhy Success Favors PsychopathsPolitical Ponerology Institutional Capture The Four Features of Bullsh*tHow Psychopaths Actually Drive People CrazyThis episode was written by Luke Madrid with some blue sections by Mari Sama. Commentary by Heka Astra and Tim Hacker was original. Where to find The Whole Rabbit:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0AnJZhmPzaby04afmEWOAVInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_whole_rabbitTwitter: https://twitter.com/1WholeRabbitOrder Stickers: https://www.stickermule.com/thewholerabbitOther Merchandise: https://thewholerabbit.myspreadshop.com/Music By Spirit Travel Plaza:https://open.spotify.com/artist/30dW3WB1sYofnow7y3V0YoSources:Primary Internet / Folk OriginAnonymous 4chan /pol/ post, 27 November 2022, thread 406166838, post No. 406171908. (Core text of the “Silent War” meme; the document reproduces and timestamps this as the point of origin before Reddit, YouTube narrations, TikTok, and Instagram circulation.)Clinical / Psychiatric HistoryBinswanger, Kurt. Work on the “schizoide Alkoholiker” (schizoid alcoholic) personality type, circa World War I period. Swiss psychiatrist; describes a constitutional style of intense inner experience, social withdrawal, and emotional distance that sits on the milder end of what later became the schizophrenia-spectrum / schizoid personality continuum. The script treats this as an early clinical analogue of the meme's “schizo.”Kahlbaum, Karl Ludwig. Description of heboidophrenia (1890s). Condition emerging in adolescence/young adulthood that primarily disturbs personality, drive, mood, and social behaviour rather than intelligence; can present with antisocial, irritable, or “psychopathic”-appearing traits that are secondary to an underlying schizophrenic process. The script uses this to illustrate clinical blending of the two poles.Literary ParallelDick, Philip K. Ubik (1969). Three-class division of humanity (normies / psychics / inertials) mapped by the script onto the Silent War triad (normies / psychopaths / schizo-autists). Psychics infiltrate and commandeer institutions; inertials detect and nullify them.Philosophical / Socio-Economic TheoryDeleuze, Gilles & Guattari, Félix. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972). Introduction of “schizoanalysis”; desire as productive, machine-like, deterritorializing force that capitalism both unleashes and reterritorializes under profit axioms. The script reads the “schizo” figure as potentially revolutionary rather than purely pathological and notes the book's deliberately non-linear style as proto-“schizoposting.”Empirical Studies on Corporate / “Successful” PsychopathyBoard, B. J. & Fritzon, K. (2005). “Disordered personalities at work.” Contrasted 39 high-level UK executives/CEOs with forensic psychiatric patients using MMPI scales; executives showed elevated “theatrical” psychopathic traits (grandiosity, superficial charm, lack of remorse) at levels rivalling or exceeding clinical samples, without the impulsive violence of the latter. Interpreted as evidence of “successful psychopaths.”Babiak, P., Neumann, C. S. & Hare, R. D. (2010). “Corporate psychopathy: Talking the walk.” Study of 203 management-development professionals using PCL-R / PCL:SV; elevated psychopathic traits relative to general population, high on charisma/strategic vision/communication, low on teamwork, management skill, and actual job performance.Landay, K., Harms, P. D. & Credé, M. (2019). Meta-analysis (92 independent samples). Weak positive association between psychopathic tendencies and leadership emergence; weak negative association with leadership effectiveness; moderate negative link to transformational leadership.Political Pathology / Institutional CaptureŁobaczewski, Andrzej. Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes (English editions mid-2000s; written earlier under surveillance). Central claim that pathocracy arises when a small minority with personality disorders (especially primary psychopathy, plus certain schizoid and “characteropathic” configurations) attain critical institutional influence and select for their own kind. Introduces paramoralisms, paralogic, and the gradual inversion of language and morality. Estimates essential psychopathy ≈ 0.6 % of population plus a larger “penumbra.”Stigler, George J. (1971). “The Theory of Economic Regulation.” Landmark essay on regulatory capture: agencies eventually serve the industries they oversee via material incentives, informational access, and cognitive/cultural capture.Double-Bind TheoryBateson, Gregory, Jackson, Don D., Haley, Jay & Weakland, John. (1956). “Toward a Theory of Schizophrenia.” Behavioral Science, 1(4), 251–264. Formalization of the double bind: conflicting injunctions (one negating the other) plus prohibition on meta-comment or escape; chronic exposure argued to contribute to communicative and perceptual patterns then diagnosed as schizophrenia. The script applies this directly to workplace/online dynamics in which the pattern-seer is punished for noticing the contradiction.Wikipedia entry on “double bind” (cited in-document for the concise definition of the communicative situation).Additional Cultural / Literary Allusions (not primary sources but invoked)Campbell, Joseph – Hero's Journey structure (adapted as “The Schizo's Journey,” stages 0–17).Orwell, George – 1984 (paramoral language / inversion of morality).Disney's The Lion King (Scar as archetype of the successful-but-incompetent psychopathic manager).Support the show

Татьяна Иванова — кандидат экономических наук, бизнес-психолог, групп-аналитик и эксперт по организационным и социальным системам. У неё 30 лет профессионального опыта, включая 14 лет на руководящих позициях в крупных компаниях. Основатель и преподаватель центра системного анализа «Динамика», экс-вице-президент и член МАПБО. Разрабатывает программы для собственников, руководителей и коучей по групповой динамике, изменениям и кризисам организаций.Tatyana Ivanova, PhD in Economics, is a business psychologist, group analyst and expert in organizational and social systems. She has 30 years of professional experience, including 14 years in senior corporate roles. She founded and teaches at the Dynamics Center for Systems Analysis and is a former vice president and current member of the International Association for Psychoanalysis of Business and Organizations. Her programs focus on group dynamics, change and organizational crises.Стать участником подкаста: https://form.jotform.com/Podcast10K/become-a-podcast-guestТемы выпуска:0:00 - Кандидатская как пропуск: степень получила и почти сразу о ней забыла 10:43 - Не объяснили интегралы третьекласснику — значит, сами их не поняли 17:51 - Невинность без детства: как снова увидеть мир впервые 22:10 - Сутки капитуляции: сегодня всё идёт не так — и это нормально 39:39 - Катастрофа начинается с двух оранжевых лепестков 42:47 - Бог как должностное лицо, которому психика поручает хаос 56:35 - Конфликт иерархий: почему маркетолог становится подушкой для битья 1:07:10 - Системность едет с подругами: win-win или контроль с доставкой продуктов? 1:15:34 - Услышать конфликт до взрыва: внутреннее напряжение как сигнализация 1:26:43 - Ясность ранит: жить в иллюзии иногда безопаснее 1:31:46 - Кому позволено играть на струнах вашей уязвимости? 1:38:09 - Ненамеренное доминирование: когда знания давят без единого приказа 1:53:47 - Муравей перед человеком: зачем помнить своё место в системе 2:04:36 - Инфлюенсер приходит с пьедесталом и считает его частью себя 2:15:19 - Задеть и удержать: диалог как спарринг без права на побег

Watch the full video here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru412-celebrating-1-year-of-ru-center Rendering Unconscious is now at Substack: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com RU412: CELEBRATING 1 YEAR OF RU CENTER FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS Welcome to a very special episode of Rendering Unconscious podcast celebrating the 1st anniversary of RU Center for Psychoanalysis! Rendering Unconscious episode 412. This was a very special meeting and such a wonderful and multi-faceted discussion. Something I've only really seen here at RU Center. I'm so grateful to bring together such a diverse and creative group of thinkers, artists, and clinicians. HUGE THANKS to each and every one of you for making RU Center such a unique, vibrant community and for being here this inaugural year! https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com You may find your favorite Rendering Unconscious Podcast episodes and guests here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/episodes RU Center news & updates: See you Wednesday, August 5th as Dr. Mikita Brottman presents Two Renegade Sexologists: On Psychopathia Sexualis & The Sexual Criminal: A Psychoanalytic Study. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/renderingunconsciouscenterforpsychoanalysis/2312172 Rendering Unconscious is also a book: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/4sOqSEu 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 pursuing psychoanalytic treatment or supervision with me, please feel free to contact me directly: www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ As always, huge thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for providing the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. https://linktr.ee/CarlAbrahamsson https://thefenriswolf.substack.com https://anartapart.substack.com The song at the end of this episode is "Pack your bags" from the album "Magic City" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/magic-city-16 Visit Pete's Bandcamp and support indie artists: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com Our music is also available at Spotify and other streaming services. https://open.spotify.com/artist/3xKEE2NPGatImt46OgaemY Links to everything can be found at: https://linktr.ee/renderingunconscious Enjoy! Thank You.

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With Lara Sheehi.  This month, we are joined on the podcast by Lara Sheehi, author of From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures. As Sophie Lewis writes, “this book embodies a despecialized psychoanalytic praxis of revolutionary anticolonialism that is genuinely worthy of the name ‘Fanon.' ... Lara Sheehi lays her finger directly on the myriad ‘intrusions' designed to thwart, confuse, pacify, and derail internationalist resistance to imperial barbarism at the level of our very interiority.” In our conversation today, we talk about some of the key ideas underpinning Lara's book. We discuss 'psychic intrusions' and 'psychic militancy'; the complicity of the psychoanalytic profession in upholding systems of domination; and how we might seize psychoanalysis for revolutionary ends. We also talk about Frantz Fanon, Ghassan Kanafani and Malcolm X, how we should embrace extremism, and why Palestine is a harbinger of psychoanalytical meltdown. From the Clinic to the Streets is 40% off for podcast listeners on plutobooks.com. Use the coupon PODCAST at the checkout.

What happens, at a psychological level, when a person develops a close relationship with AI? Can AI love them back? And what does this attachment reveal about human desire, projection and responsibility?A groundbreaking study into the ethical and psychological implications of human-AI relationships, AI Intimacy and Psychoanalysis by Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska, academic, writer and filmmaker – addresses the hugely topical, but hardly new, question of our emotional bonds with machines.To find out more about this I caught up with Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska when she was recently in Dublin.Agnieszka talks about her background, her new book, Freud, AI models and more.About Agnieszka Piotrowska:Agnieszka Piotrowska, PhD, is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, trained psychologist, and psychoanalytic life coach. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and supervises doctoral students at Oxford Brookes University and the University of Staffordshire. Her documentary work includes Married to the Eiffel Tower ( 2008), a critically acclaimed and internationally broadcast film exploring unconventional human attachments, which established her international reputation as a filmmaker working at the intersection of psychology and human experience. She is the author of The Cinema of Agnieszka Holland: Anger and Ethics (Routledge, 2026), Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film (Routledge, 2014 & 2023), and The Nasty Woman and the Neo-Femme Fatale in Contemporary Cinema (Routledge, 2019).

What is the goal of psychoanalysis? Is it greater self-knowledge, or the recovery of our capacity simply to be?In this third Freudian/Jungian conversation with psychoanalyst Donald Carveth we explore Winnicott's notion of the true self alongside Jung's understanding of the Self, individuation, and the religious attitude. We discuss conscience and the superego, the image of God (imago Dei), love, community, and why Jung increasingly turned toward Christianity in his later work.The two earlier Freudian/Jungian conversations are found here and here.For more psychoanalytic thinking visit Don's youtube page.

RU411: MYRIAM SAUER, "EMPTINESS IS THE CURE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS" – THE QUEERNESS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru411-myriam-sauer-emptiness-is-the Rendering Unconscious is now at Substack: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com Welcome to a very special episode of Rendering Unconscious podcast! As TODAY is the one year anniversary of the inaugural event of RU Center for Psychoanalysis, I have turned the very first RU Center event into an episode of RU POD. Rendering Unconscious episode 411. This episode is the very first event for Rendering Unconscious Center for Psychoanalysis, which celebrates the book The Queerness of Psychoanalysis (2025) and the launch of RU Center. To begin, I outline some of the goals of RU Center for Psychoanalysis, highlighting upcoming courses and events, including my Introduction to Psychoanalysis class. Myriam then presents her chapter, “Emptiness is the Cure for Psychoanalysis,” from The Queerness of Psychoanalysis (2025) in which she looks at the work of Swiss psychoanalyst Danielle Quinodoz, who wrote up an early trans* affirmative case study. Some themes of the discussion that follows include the alienation experienced by trans individuals in the field of psychoanalysis and the potential for transness to challenge rigid norms, gender and otherwise, emphasizing the need for a trans-affirmative psychoanalysis and the importance of questioning societal norms. I am posting this event for everyone as a celebration of the official opening of RU Center for Psychoanalysis! Check out the book: The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond (Routledge, 2025). https://amzn.to/44SnL49 News & events: Rendering Unconscious Center for Psychoanalysis is celebrating 1 year! Join us THIS SATURDAY, July 18th for a LIVE Rendering Unconscious Podcast event to celebrate the one year anniversary of RU Center with special guests Mary Wild, Emmalea Russo, and Mikita Brottman and Carter Carter. More TBA! All paid subscribers at RU Podcast and RU Center Substacks will receive the ZOOM LINK to attend live. https://renderingunconscious.substack.com https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com See you there! Rendering Unconscious is also a book: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/4sOqSEu 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 pursuing psychoanalytic treatment or supervision with me, please feel free to contact me directly: www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ As always, huge thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for providing the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. https://linktr.ee/CarlAbrahamsson https://thefenriswolf.substack.com https://anartapart.substack.com Links to everything can be found at: https://linktr.ee/renderingunconscious You may find your favorite Rendering Unconscious Podcast episodes and guests here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/episodes Enjoy! Thank You. Image: Artwork by trans icon Val Denham.

Dr Tim Themi is a PhD in Philosophy & Psychoanalysis from Deakin University. He also holds Honours degrees in Philosophy from La Trobe University and in Chemical Engineering from University of Melbourne. His doctoral dissertation, supervised by leading Lacan translator Prof Russell Grigg, brought together the psychoanalysis of Lacan and the philosophy of Nietzsche on the question of desire and ethics. He is author of the books 'Eroticizing Aesthetics: In the Real with Bataille and Lacan' (Rowman/Bloomsbury 2021); 'Lacan's Ethics and Nietzsche's Critique of Platonism' (SUNY Press 2014); and has taught at Deakin University, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, Lacan Circle of Australia, and in the School of Culture & Communication at University of Melbourne.Bryan Counter is the author of Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience: Reading Huysmans, Proust, McCarthy, and Cusk (Anthem Press, 2025) and co-editor, with James Dutton, of Quiet Proust: Aesthetic Experience, Reading the Virtual, and Thinking out of Time (under contract with Bloomsbury). He co-hosts the podcast Authors Die Twice with Nathan Wainstein and is currently working on projects revolving around horror, weird fiction, wonder, and the role of chance and improvisation in 20th century fiction.---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - ⁠ / hermitixpodcast ⁠Support Hermitix:Patreon - ⁠ www.patreon.com/hermitix ⁠Donations: - ⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠Hermitix Merchandise - ⁠http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2⁠Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLKEthereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74

What if the biggest thing standing between you and better health isn't your diet, your workout routine, or your hormones?What if it's the relationship you've built with yourself?In this conversation, I sit down with psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Nicole LePera to explore how our earliest experiences shape the way we move through adulthood. From emotional eating and food noise to perfectionism, people pleasing, burnout, and the struggle to trust ourselves, so many of the habits we think are personality traits are actually learned survival strategies.We also explore why healing isn't about becoming someone new. It's about reconnecting with the parts of yourself that have always been there.If you've ever wondered why you know what to do for your health but still struggle to follow through, this conversation offers a completely different way to understand yourself.In this episode, you'll learn:Why the first five years of life shape the way your nervous system responds to stressWhy food noise and emotional eating often point to deeper unmet needsHow small daily promises help rewire your brain and build confidenceThe difference between guilt and shame, and how each affects your decisionsWhy learning to rest can feel uncomfortable for so many womenPractical ways to reconnect with your body and begin healing old patterns_More on Dr. Nicole LePeraDr. Nicole LePera is a holistic psychologist, trained at Cornell University, The New School for Social Research and The Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis. She is the founder of the global community healing membership SelfHealers Circle and the author of #1 NY Times Bestseller "How to Do the Work" "How To Meet Your Self" and "How To Be The Love You Seek"Website: theholisticpsychologist.com Instagram: @the.holistic.psychologistTikTok: @theholisticpsychologistReparenting Your Inner Child SelfHealers CircleFor more resources related to today's episode, visit the podcast episode page: drmindypelz.com/ep351_Connect with Dr. Mindy:Join Reset AcademyWatch the episodes on YouTubeFollow Dr. Mindy on InstagramSubscribe to Dr. Mindy's newsletterDisclaimer: This podcast is intended for educational and informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional before making changes to your diet, fasting routine, or lifestyle.

Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsBuy Me A Coffeebuymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsFull Bibliography for Part TwoCharcot, Hysteria, and the Medical TheaterJean-Martin Charcot. Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System.Jean-Martin Charcot. Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System.Jean-Martin Charcot. Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux faites à la Salpêtrière.Georges Didi-Huberman. Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière.Asti Hustvedt. Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris.Jan Goldstein. Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century.Mark S. Micale. Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations.Elaine Showalter. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830–1980.Henri F. Ellenberger. The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry.Alan Gauld. A History of Hypnotism.The Nancy School and SuggestionAmbroise-Auguste Liébeault. Du sommeil et des états analogues, considérés surtout au point de vue de l'action du moral sur le physique.Hippolyte Bernheim. De la suggestion et de ses applications à la thérapeutique.Hippolyte Bernheim. Suggestive Therapeutics: A Treatise on the Nature and Uses of Hypnotism.Henri F. Ellenberger. The Discovery of the Unconscious.Alan Gauld. A History of Hypnotism.Adam Crabtree. From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic Sleep and the Roots of Psychological Healing.Alison Winter. Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain.Pierre Janet, Automatism, Dissociation, and TraumaPierre Janet. L'Automatisme psychologique.Pierre Janet. The Major Symptoms of Hysteria.Pierre Janet. The Mental State of Hystericals.Pierre Janet. Psychological Healing: A Historical and Clinical Study.Pierre Janet. Writings on fixed ideas, dissociation, hysteria, narrowed consciousness, and subconscious action.Henri F. Ellenberger. The Discovery of the Unconscious.Onno van der Hart, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis, and Kathy Steele. The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization.Adam Crabtree. From Mesmer to Freud.Alan Gauld. A History of Hypnotism.Ideomotor Effect, Table-Turning, and Automatic ActionMichel Eugène Chevreul. De la baguette divinatoire, du pendule explorateur et des tables tournantes.Michael Faraday. Writings and experimental reports on table-turning, unconscious muscular pressure, and involuntary movement.William Benjamin Carpenter. Principles of Mental Physiology.William Benjamin Carpenter. Essays and writings on unconscious cerebration and ideomotor action.Daniel M. Wegner. The Illusion of Conscious Will.Richard Wiseman. Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There.Ray Hyman. Writings on ideomotor action, dowsing, psychical research, and anomalous experience.Spiritualism, Mediumship, Psychical Research, and Automatic WritingAlex Owen. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England.Janet Oppenheim. The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914.Ann Braude. Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America.Sofie Lachapelle. Investigating the Supernatural: From Spiritism and Occultism to Psychical Research and Metapsychics in France, 1853–1931.Frederic W. H. Myers. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death.The Society for Psychical Research. Early proceedings and reports on automatic writing, trance, mediumship, apparitions, and psychical phenomena.William James. Essays in Psychical Research.William James. The Varieties of Religious Experience.William James. The Principles of Psychology.Henri F. Ellenberger. The Discovery of the Unconscious.Adam Crabtree. From Mesmer to Freud.Freud, Breuer, Hypnosis, and the UnconsciousJosef Breuer and Sigmund Freud. Studies on Hysteria.Sigmund Freud. The Interpretation of Dreams.Sigmund Freud. Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis.Sigmund Freud. “A Note on the Unconscious in Psycho-Analysis.”Sigmund Freud. “The Unconscious.”Sigmund Freud. “Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through.”Sigmund Freud. “The Dynamics of Transference.”Sigmund Freud. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.Henri F. Ellenberger. The Discovery of the Unconscious.Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen. The Freudian Subject.Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen and Sonu Shamdasani. The Freud Files: An Inquiry into the History of Psychoanalysis.Frederick Crews. Freud: The Making of an Illusion.Élisabeth Roudinesco. Freud: In His Time and Ours.Frank J. Sulloway. Freud, Biologist of the Mind: Beyond the Psychoanalytic Legend.Occult Revival, Will, Imagination, and Esoteric PsychologyÉliphas Lévi. Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie.Éliphas Lévi. Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual.Éliphas Lévi. The Great Secret.Papus, Gérard Encausse. Traité méthodique de science occulte.Papus, Gérard Encausse. Elementary Treatise of Occult Science.Papus, Gérard Encausse. The Tarot of the Bohemians.Joscelyn Godwin. The Theosophical Enlightenment.Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction.Wouter J. Hanegraaff. Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture.Alex Owen. The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern.Christopher McIntosh. Eliphas Lévi and the French Occult Revival.Crowley, Fortune, Spare, and Modern Magical PsychologyAleister Crowley. Magick: Liber ABA, Book 4.Aleister Crowley. Magick in Theory and Practice.Aleister Crowley. Liber O vel Manus et Sagittae.Aleister Crowley. The Equinox.Aleister Crowley. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley.Marco Pasi. Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics.Dion Fortune, writing as Violet Firth. The Machinery of the Mind.Dion Fortune. Psychic Self-Defense.Dion Fortune. The Training and Work of an Initiate.Dion Fortune. Applied Magic.Dion Fortune. The Mystical Qabalah.Austin Osman Spare. The Book of Pleasure.Austin Osman Spare. The Focus of Life.Austin Osman Spare. A Book of Satyrs.Phil Baker. Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist.Kenneth Grant. Images and Oracles of Austin Osman Spare.New Thought, Mind-Cure, Autosuggestion, and Personal MagnetismPhineas Parkhurst Quimby. The Quimby Manuscripts.Horatio W. Dresser. A History of the New Thought Movement.Catherine L. Albanese. A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion.Beryl Satter. Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875–1920.Robert C. Fuller. Mesmerism and the American Cure of Souls.Émile Coué. Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion.Émile Coué. How to Practice Suggestion and Autosuggestion.William Walker Atkinson. Thought Vibration; or, The Law of Attraction in the Thought World.William Walker Atkinson. Mind-Power: The Secret of Mental Magic.William Walker Atkinson. Practical Mental Influence.William Walker Atkinson. The Psychology of Salesmanship.William Walker Atkinson. Memory: How to Develop, Train and Use It.William Walker Atkinson. The Power of Concentration.William Walker Atkinson, under related New Thought and occult pseudonymous currents. Works on personal magnetism, suggestion, concentration, mental science, and occult psychology.Theosophy, Hypnotism, and Occult Warnings About InfluenceHelena Petrovna Blavatsky. The Key to Theosophy.Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Collected Writings.Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Writings and discussions touching mesmerism, hypnotism, psychic influence, occult dangers, and spiritual development.Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater. Thought-Forms.C. W. Leadbeater. The Astral Plane.C. W. Leadbeater. The Chakras.Joscelyn Godwin. The Theosophical Enlightenment.Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. The Western Esoteric Traditions.Wouter J. Hanegraaff. Esotericism and the Academy.General Histories Useful Across Part TwoHenri F. Ellenberger. The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry.Adam Crabtree. From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic Sleep and the Roots of Psychological Healing.Adam Crabtree. Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism, and Psychical Research, 1766–1925: An Annotated Bibliography.Alan Gauld. A History of Hypnotism.Alison Winter. Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain.Robert Darnton. Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France.Frank A. Pattie. Mesmer and Animal Magnetism: A Chapter in the History of Medicine.Peter Lamont. Extraordinary Beliefs: A Historical Approach to a Psychological Problem.Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. The Western Esoteric Traditions.Wouter J. Hanegraaff. Esotericism and the Academy.Alex Owen. The Place of Enchantment.Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball. 

Watch the full video here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru410-bryan-batista-thomas-on-readings Rendering Unconscious is now at Substack: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com RU410: BRYAN BATISTA-THOMAS ON READINGS OF JEAN LAPLANCHE IN PROCESS Rendering Unconscious welcomes Bryan Batista-Thomas to the podcast! He's here to talk about his new book Readings of Jean Laplanche in Process: Conversations Amplifying Differences (Routledge, 2026). https://amzn.to/4yek9XD Rendering Unconscious episode 410. Bryan Batista-Thomas spearheaded the premier, now annual, Laplanche in the Clinic event in the United States, modeled after the Journées internationales Jean Laplanche. He is the author of Readings of Jean Laplanche in Process: Conversations Amplifying Differences (Routledge, 2026), is coediting the translation of Vocabulaire de Laplanche (PUF, 2024) / The Language of Jean Laplanche (Routledge, 2027) into English, and preparing a manuscript provisionally entitled A Laplanchean Style: Technique, Temporality and Method. Batista-Thomas works full-time in private practice providing psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, supervision, and teaching. https://www.bryanbatistathomas.com You may find your favorite Rendering Unconscious Podcast episodes and guests here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/episodes News & events: Rendering Unconscious Center for Psychoanalysis is celebrating 1 year! Join us THIS SATURDAY, July 18th for a LIVE Rendering Unconscious Podcast event to celebrate the one year anniversary of RU Center with special guests Mary Wild, Emmalea Russo, and Mikita Brottman and Carter Carter. More TBA! All paid subscribers at RU Podcast and RU Center Substacks will receive the ZOOM LINK to attend live. https://renderingunconscious.substack.com https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com See you there! Rendering Unconscious is also a book: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/4sOqSEu 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 pursuing psychoanalytic treatment or supervision with me, please feel free to contact me directly: www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ As always, huge thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for providing the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. https://linktr.ee/CarlAbrahamsson https://thefenriswolf.substack.com https://anartapart.substack.com The song at the end of this episode is "Ready for Business" from the album of the same name by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/ready-for-business-17 Check out our newest album "Sisters of the Apocalypse" just released on the summer solstice: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/sisters-of-the-apocalypse-22 Visit Pete's Bandcamp and support indie artists: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com Our music is also available at Spotify and other streaming services. https://open.spotify.com/artist/3xKEE2NPGatImt46OgaemY Links to everything can be found at: https://linktr.ee/renderingunconscious Enjoy! Thank You.

"We have a trove of treasure. These are the case studies, and we need the case studies - these are the flora and fauna of our field. This is how we work. We work by reading case studies and they enrich us. Not only do they enrich the community, but they also enrich us as therapists who write their case studies, and they get to be involved in deeper layers of the actual case study. When we write a case study we are in a better position to understand the patient, and we are in a better position to convey that knowledge to the psychoanalytic community. But as you said, it's a big challenge. Psychodynamic case studies belong to the genre of creative nonfiction. They are like memoirs, biographies, all are based on truth and imagination. This dual form of truth, what actually happened and imagination, is very important to our genre. But we are different from those who write memoirs or biographies, because we have responsibility to our patients and to our community."  Episode Description: Aner views case reports as the Rosetta Stones of our field. We discuss the nature of the 'creative non-fiction' that is inherent in writing about the nuanced, intimate and affectively alive experience that is dynamic treatment. He shares his commitment to maintaining "responsible creativity" in writing about this work and always keeps in mind protecting the dignity of the patient. Aner recognizes the vulnerability that the therapist also undergoes in revealing themselves to the reader and alerts us to "clinical narcissism" - the temptation to exhibit oneself in place of sharing the authenticity of the clinical encounter. He presents the different phases of a deepening treatment along with the understanding that they are inherently schematic and removed from the aliveness of the dyad. He shares vignettes that are understood through a Kleinian, Winnicottian and Relational lens and closes noting that "effective clinical writing is as much an art as a science requiring technical proficiency, creative insight and literary skills." Our Guest: Aner Govrin, PhD, is a psychoanalyst, philosopher, and clinical psychologist. He is the director of a doctoral program, "Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics," at The Program for Hermeneutics & Cultural Studies, Bar-Ilan University. He is a member of the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (TAICP) and Editor of the Routledge series Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He also conducts workshops on psychodynamic case-study writing and on a range of psychoanalytic topics at the Tavistock, as well as in training programs in the United States, England, China and Israel.  Recommended Readings:  Amir, D. (2016). Studium and punctum in psychoanalytic writing: Reading case studies through Roland Barthes. Psychoanalytic Review, 103(1), 51–65.   Bernstein, S. B. (2024) The Process of Case Writing: A Fourth Pillar of Analytic Training. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 72:267-294   Boesky, D., Barros, E. R., & Chabert, C. (2013). What does the presentation of case material tell us about what actually happened in an analysis and how does it do this? International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 94, 1129–1134.   Gabbard, G. O. (2000). Disguise or consent: Problems and recommendations concerning the publication and presentation of clinical material. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 81(6), 1071–1086.   Govrin, A. (2025) Responsible Creativity: Combining Clinical Report and Literary Writing in the Psychodynamic Case Study. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 39:20-39   Govrin, A. (2026). The Craft of the Psychodynamic Case Study: A Practical Guide, Routledge.   Ogden, T. H. (2021). Analytic writing as a form of fiction. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 69(2), 221–223.   Piccioli, E., Rossi, P. L., & Semi, A. A. (Eds.). (1996). Writing in psychoanalysis. Karnac Books.

A fascinating introductory volume, Existential Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2025) integrates existential philosophy with psychoanalysis, drawing on key theorists from both areas and expertly guiding the reader on how to incorporate these two disciplines, which may appear disparate on the surface, into their clinical and theoretical work. This unique and accessible book sees M. Guy Thompson explore key concepts, such as experience, authenticity, freedom, psychic change, agency, and the pervasive role of suffering in our lives. Throughout, he draws on a wide range of thinkers from both fields, including Sartre, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Freud, Winnicott, Bion, Laing, and Lacan. Exquisitely lucid and engaging, Thompson deftly brings the reader into thoughtful and enlightening territory typically inaccessible to the general reader. Although existential philosophy and psychoanalysis are often thought of as incompatible fields, Thompson shows how they share far more in common than is usually supposed. This volume will help clinicians, scholars, and students of all persuasions learn how integrating the two disciplines introduces a more personal and revolutionary understanding of what psychoanalysis can be in the twenty-first century. This compelling assimilation of continental philosophy and psychoanalysis will be of interest to psychoanalytic practitioners and psychotherapists, as well as philosophers, social scientists and any student of the human condition Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychoanalysis

A fascinating introductory volume, Existential Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2025) integrates existential philosophy with psychoanalysis, drawing on key theorists from both areas and expertly guiding the reader on how to incorporate these two disciplines, which may appear disparate on the surface, into their clinical and theoretical work. This unique and accessible book sees M. Guy Thompson explore key concepts, such as experience, authenticity, freedom, psychic change, agency, and the pervasive role of suffering in our lives. Throughout, he draws on a wide range of thinkers from both fields, including Sartre, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Freud, Winnicott, Bion, Laing, and Lacan. Exquisitely lucid and engaging, Thompson deftly brings the reader into thoughtful and enlightening territory typically inaccessible to the general reader. Although existential philosophy and psychoanalysis are often thought of as incompatible fields, Thompson shows how they share far more in common than is usually supposed. This volume will help clinicians, scholars, and students of all persuasions learn how integrating the two disciplines introduces a more personal and revolutionary understanding of what psychoanalysis can be in the twenty-first century. This compelling assimilation of continental philosophy and psychoanalysis will be of interest to psychoanalytic practitioners and psychotherapists, as well as philosophers, social scientists and any student of the human condition 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comStephen is a psychoanalyst and author. He used to teach clinical technique at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, and also psychoanalytic theory at University College London. He's the author of The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves, and his latest book is Love's Labor: How We Break and Make the Bonds of Love.For two clips of the episode — on what psychoanalysis is really for, and the benefits of friendship vs romantic love — head to our YouTube page.Other topics: born in Gary, Indiana; his birth defect requiring many surgeries; his Jewish family emigrating from Eastern Europe; college at Berkeley and Oxford; arrested at the Chicago Dem convention; befriending Anna Freud; Sigmund and his studies in hysteria; loneliness in adolescence; how falling in love is very different than love; my own psychoanalyst of 25 years; trauma from my childhood; the losses that marriage entails; breakthroughs after breakdowns; detaching from the idea of yourself; legal marriages vs psychological ones; falling back into trauma because it's familiar; the power of love's precarity; victimology; Philip Roth's “the ecstasy of sanctimony”; lessons from Othello; surrender vs submission; Esther Perel's Mating in Captivity; seeking traits in a partner that mirror a dysfunctional parent; how sex is different for men and women; gay promiscuity; male-male marriages lasting the longest; HIV and the threat of deportation; dating with HIV in the ‘90s; and how to be a better listener.Browse the Dishcast archive for an episode you might enjoy. Coming up: David Thomson on cinema in US history and culture, John O'Sullivan on conservatism, Robby George on natural law, and Megan McArdle on pretty much anything. Please send any guest recs, dissents, and other comments to dish@andrewsullivan.com.

Watch the full video here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru409-david-renton-on-revolutionary Rendering Unconscious is now at Substack: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com RU409: DR DAVID RENTON ON REVOLUTIONARY FORGIVENESS: BEYOND MORALISM, TOWARDS LIBERATION Rendering Unconscious welcomes Dr. David Renton back to the podcast! He's here to talk about his new book Revolutionary Forgiveness: Beyond Moralism, Towards Liberation. https://amzn.to/3Tq6qNa Rendering Unconscious episode 409. D. K. Renton is a barrister and historian. His work has appeared in The London Review of Books, The Guardian, Jacobin, Spectre, and Tempest. Renton is a member of rs21. His books include The New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right and Fascism: History and Theory. He is based in London. Follow him at Substack: https://davidrenton590934.substack.com And on social media: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100014210191305 https://www.instagram.com/david.renton1/ https://bsky.app/profile/davidkr.bsky.social Be sure to check out these related/mentioned episodes: RU165: BARRISTER DAVID RENTON ON NO FREE SPEECH FOR FASCISTS: EXPLORING ‘NO PLATFORM' IN HISTORY, LAW AND POLITICS RU403: ANTHEA LAWSON ON HOW NOT TO SAVE THE WORLD RU394: LARA SHEEHI & CARTER CARTER – FROM THE CLINIC TO THE STREETS: PSYCHOANALYSIS FOR REVOLUTIONARY FUTURES You may find your favorite Rendering Unconscious Podcast episodes and guests here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/episodes News & events: Rendering Unconscious Center for Psychoanalysis is celebrating 1 year! Join us THIS SATURDAY, July 11th for the next installment of my Introduction to Psychoanalysis course. we'll be going over the life and work of French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan, reviewing some of his main concepts. Following the lecture, we're going to have a party! We'll turn off the recording, hang out and celebrate. To join us, simply become a paid subscriber at RU Center for Psychoanalysis: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com Then Saturday, July 18th, I will be hosting a LIVE Rendering Unconscious Podcast event to celebrate the one year anniversary of RU Center with special guests Mary Wild, Emmalea Russo, and Mikita Brottman. More TBA! All paid subscribers at RU Podcast and RU Center Substacks will receive the ZOOM LINK to attend live. https://renderingunconscious.substack.com See you there! Rendering Unconscious is also a book: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/4sOqSEu 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 pursuing psychoanalytic treatment or supervision with me, please feel free to contact me directly: www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ The song at the end of this episode is "Butterfly effect" from the album "All p0ets are p0rn0graphers" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/all-poets-are-pornographers-13 Check out our newest album "Sisters of the Apocalypse" just released on the summer solstice: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/sisters-of-the-apocalypse-22 Visit Pete's Bandcamp and support indie artists: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com Our music is also available at Spotify and other streaming services. https://open.spotify.com/artist/3xKEE2NPGatImt46OgaemY Links to everything can be found at: https://linktr.ee/renderingunconscious Enjoy! Thank You.

There is an academic interest in the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought. This book takes a different approach, turning its gaze not on Freud but rather on those who seek out his concealed Jewishness. What is it that propels the scholarly aim to show Freud in a Jewish light? Naomi Seidman explores attempts to "touch" Freud (and other famous Jews) through Jewish languages, seeking out his Hebrew name or evidence that he knew some Yiddish. Tracing a history of this drive to bring Freud into Jewish range, Seidman also charts Freud's responses to (and jokes about) this desire. More specifically, she reads the reception and translation of Freud in Hebrew and Yiddish as instances of the desire to touch, feel, "rescue," and connect with the famous professor from Vienna. Join YIVO for a discussion with Seidman about this newly published book, led by scholar Ken Frieden. Buy the book: here This book talk originally took place on June 6, 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychoanalysis

There is an academic interest in the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought. This book takes a different approach, turning its gaze not on Freud but rather on those who seek out his concealed Jewishness. What is it that propels the scholarly aim to show Freud in a Jewish light? Naomi Seidman explores attempts to "touch" Freud (and other famous Jews) through Jewish languages, seeking out his Hebrew name or evidence that he knew some Yiddish. Tracing a history of this drive to bring Freud into Jewish range, Seidman also charts Freud's responses to (and jokes about) this desire. More specifically, she reads the reception and translation of Freud in Hebrew and Yiddish as instances of the desire to touch, feel, "rescue," and connect with the famous professor from Vienna. Join YIVO for a discussion with Seidman about this newly published book, led by scholar Ken Frieden. Buy the book: here This book talk originally took place on June 6, 2024. 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

"I have always been fascinated by the world of animals. What fascinated me about them is that when you pay attention to animals, this is a world beyond words. Words are not part of their world, so you start paying attention to movement, to breath, to reaction, to the pause, all these things, and I found it fascinating…Certainly, in veterinary medicine, as any type of clinical medical practice, if a patient comes to you, there's always things that you can do. You can take a blood sample, you can do a radiograph, you can give oxygen, you can give certain treatments. There's always a solution that you can give, a fix. Psychoanalysis is very, very different. I haven't successfully overcome the urge to fix, but I have come to realize that solutions that are given too early are oftentimes not usable. So, as a clinical veterinarian, most of my solutions were usable. That's not what happens in psychoanalysis."  Episode Description: Michele begins with sharing her life-long fascination with animals. As a veterinarian she learned to attend to the nonverbal and to the triadic aspects of veterinary medicine - clinician, animal and owner. She noted that owners often communicate their own distress through their animal's behavior. She learned that "animals don't require you to be brilliant but to pay attention" - certainly relevant to psychoanalysis. In addition to describing her ongoing practice of Zen meditation, she shared with us the challenges of changing mindsets from medical intervening to analytic listening, "This shift - from resolving not knowing to working within it - has been a central aspect of my development." We discuss the role of suffering and mourning, which relates to her Catholic background, and the importance of the body both in her veterinary and psychoanalytic work. She closes with an example of an analysand crying out for help with her acutely ill pet and recognizing that "you can help me." Our Guest: Michele Gaspar is an advanced candidate at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis (CCP). She currently has a private psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice in Chicago, provides feline internal medicine consultations to clinical veterinarians through the Veterinary Information Network (VIN) and works with veterinarians and veterinary students who have professional and personal challenges. Michele lectures at national veterinary conferences on psychological issues impacting veterinarians and also teaches Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory and Introduction to Object Relations in CCP's two-year Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Certificate Program. Recommended Readings:  The Other Family Doctor Karen Fine, DVM A thoughtful exploration of veterinary medicine as relationship-centered work. Fine illustrates how veterinarians routinely encounter attachment, grief, caregiving, guilt, and love through their work with animals and the people who care for them.   Animals in Translation Temple Grandin, PhD Grandin explores how animals perceive and experience the world, challenging readers to understand minds that communicate differently from our own. The book offers insights into observation, empathy, nonverbal communication, and the challenge of understanding another subjective experience.   How Animals Grieve Barbara J. King, PhD Drawing on scientific observations and research, King examines evidence of grief and mourning across species. The book raises important questions about attachment, loss, emotional bonds, and the continuity between human and animal experiences of bereavement.   All Creatures Great and Small James Herriot A beloved memoir of rural veterinary practice that captures the joys, frustrations, humor, and heartbreak of caring for animals and their owners. Herriot's stories reveal veterinary medicine as a deeply human profession grounded in relationships, responsibility, and compassion.   The Wisdom of Insecurity Alan Watts A classic introduction to Zen-influenced thinking about uncertainty, impermanence, and the limits of control. Watts offers a compelling perspective on living with ambiguity and cultivating a deeper comfort with not knowing.   When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, PhD and Susan McCarthy An influential exploration of animal emotional life, including grief, joy, attachment, fear, and affection. The book invites readers to consider the emotional complexity of animals and what their experiences may teach us about our own.   The Loss of a Pet Wallace Sife, PhD A foundational work on companion animal bereavement. Sife examines the profound attachment people form with their animals and the often-underappreciated grief that accompanies their illness and death.

I spoke with author Aliza Einhorn about her new book Tarot of the Unconscious: Uncovering the Hidden Link Between Psychoanalysis and the Cards (Weiser Books, 2026) United States: Red Wheel Weiser. Aliza Einhorn is a Psychoanalyst in training at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies in New York City. She's a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a longtime tarot reader, tarot teacher, and astrologer. “My book is a method” Einhorn tells me. The method is free association. This is the link to psychoanalysis. Einhorn wants us to free associate to the cards as one free associates to dream imagery. “Let's break it down. In any given Tarot card, as in a dream, there are images, visual details (what Freud might call the manifest meaning), and then there are the hidden meanings beneath those images (what Freud might call the latent meaning), which we only discover after we analyze it.” (p.44) She is enthusiastic about the “infinite” meanings of the cards. In Einhorn's world Card 7, The Chariot, is on Freud's royal road to the unconscious. While Tarot books have historically engaged with Jungian though, Einhorn's book is a “love letter to Freud.” One of the book's most striking ideas is that people develop a transference to their deck — that how you treat your cards mirrors relational patterns from your past. In this interview we discussed an approach to transference adopted by Modern Psychoanalysis and referenced a foundational paper on countertransference. Listeners interested in the specifics of this approach to transference can find it here Clevans, E. L. (1983) On Countertransference. Modern Psychoanalysis 8:129-130. Einhorn concludes “if there's one thing I want to teach you in this book, one thing I hope you will remember, it's that your unconscious is your friend. It's good to get to know it.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychoanalysis

Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. Last month, on May 14th, we were joined by nearly 800 listeners in New York City for the first ever Know Your Enemy live show, "Decline and Fall." The event was a fundraiser for Dissent, so we called in the big guns, our great friend Mike Duncan, to join us on stage. Many KYE listeners will be familiar with Mike, the brilliant and prolific host of the Revolutions and, especially relevant for the purposes of this conversation, History of Rome podcasts. We discuss how the right talks about decline, their hilariously ignorant invocations of Rome, our very symptomatic obsession with political decline and dissolution, the power of nostalgia and declension narrative—and then answer audience questions! Thank you again to everyone who joined us in person, to Mike Duncan, to Patrick Iber and Rosalie Ryan and everyone at Dissent, to our intrepid producer Jesse Brenneman (who was able to fly in from Montana to join us), to listeners near and far who so generously continue to support Know Your Enemy! Donate to Dissent here. Photo credit: Jack Califano Sources: For quotes from conservatives about Rome's decline: Reagan, Nixon, Buchanan, Vance Mike Duncan, The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic (2017) James J. Walsh, The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries (1907) Michael Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays (1962) Kate Wagner, "Fear of a Breakdown," Late Review, May 11, 2026. D.W. Winnicott, "Fear of a Breakdown," Intl. Review of Psychoanalysis, (1974)