Dear Trapart friend,
The book we've all been waiting for has arrived! Rendering Unconscious – Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry appeared on this beautiful spring day. And we are happy to say that we'll start shipping pre- and current orders as soon as Easter is over and done with.
Rendering Unconscious – Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry
Edited by Vanessa Sinclair
In times of crisis, one needs to stop and ask, “How did we get here?” Our contemporary chaos is the result of a society built upon pervasive systems of oppression, discrimination and violence that run deeper and reach further than most understand or care to realize. These draconian systems have been fundamental to many aspects of our lives, and we seem to have gradually allowed them more power. However, our foundation is not solid; it is fractured and collapsing – if we allow that. We need to start applying new models of interpretation and analysis to the deep-rooted problems at hand.
“Rendering Unconscious” brings together international scholars, psychoanalysts, psychologists, philosophers, researchers, writers and poets; reflecting on current events, politics, the state of mental health care, the arts, literature, mythology, and the cultural climate; thoughtfully evaluating this moment of crisis, its implications, wide-ranging effects, and the social structures that have brought us to this point of urgency.
Hate speech, Internet stalking, virtual violence, the horde mentality of the alt-right, systematic racism, the psychology of rioting, the theater of violence, fake news, the power of disability, erotic transference and counter-transference, the economics of libido, Eros and the death drive, fascist narratives, psychoanalytic formation as resistance, surrealism and sexuality, traversing genders, and colonial counterviolence are but a few of the topics addressed in this thought-provoking and inspiring volume.
Contributions by Vanessa Sinclair, Gavriel Reisner, Alison Annunziata, Kendalle Aubra, Gerald Sand, Tanya White-Davis & Anu Kotay, Luce deLire, Jason Haaf, Simon Critchley & Brad Evans, Marc Strauss, Chiara Bottici, Manya Steinkoler, Emma Lieber, Damien Patrick Williams, Shara Hardeson, Jill Gentile, Angelo Villa, Gabriela Costardi, Jamieson Webster, Sergio Benvenuto, Craig Slee, Álvaro D. Moreira, David Lichtenstein, Julie Fotheringham, John Dall’aglio, Matthew Oyer, Jessica Datema, Olga Cox Cameron, Katie Ebbitt, Juliana Portilho, Trevor Pederson, Elisabeth Punzi & Per-Magnus Johansson, Meredith Friedson, Steven Reisner, Léa Silveira, Patrick Scanlon, Júlio Mendes Rodrigo, Daniel Deweese, Julie Futrell, Gregory J. Stevens, Benjamin Y. Fong, Emma Lieber, Katy Bohinc, Wayne Wapeemukwa, Patricia Gherovici & Cassandra Seltman, Marie Brown, Buffy Cain, Claire-Madeline Culkin, Andrew Daul, Germ Lynn, Adel Souto, and paul aster stone-tsao
480 pages, 148 x 210 mm, perfect-bound. You can order this title HERE!
There is also a hardbound edition with a jacket, limited to 100 copies. You can order that HERE!
Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is an American psychoanalyst, based in Stockholm, who sees clients internationally. She is the author of “Switching Mirrors” (2016), and co-editor of “On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Laconian Perspectives” (2018) with Dr. Manya Steinkoler. Dr. Sinclair also hosts the Rendering Unconscious podcast, addressing the state of psychoanalysis and mental health care, politics, the arts, culture and current events. She is a founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis, and arranges psychoanalytic conferences internationally.
For more information, please visit: www.drvanessasinclair.net www.renderingunconscious.org
We're announcing a release/launch evening at our favorite Stockholm place: Rönnells Antikvariat (Birger Jarlsgatan 32). On April 26th, between 6 and 8pm, we will celebrate the book. At 7pm, I will talk to Vanessa about the book and its topics, and the audience is more than welcome to take part in the discussion.
More Events!
If you want to be part of history in the making, and indirectly of the creation of The Fenris Wolf 11, please get your ticket for our new conference: Rewriting the future – 100 years of esoteric modernism and psychoanalysis. More info:
Welcome to Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism & Psychoanalysis
Registration is now OPEN!
Events will take place over 3 days: Thursday – Saturday, May 30 – June 1, 2019. The first two days proceedings will be held at Schloß Pienzenau & the third and final day will be at Brunnenburg Castle once the home of Ezra Pound, whose grandson Siegfried de Rachewiltz will be joining us.
The castles are located in the beautiful mountains of Merano, Italy. Due to the location and venue for this conference, there are a very LIMITED number of tickets (weekend passes only). Get your ticket by paypaling 150 euro to sinclairvanessa@gmail.com
Speakers:
1 Carlos Abler – The Questions We Ask our Bodies are Answered by the Gods: Mimetic Techniques & Existential Alchemies in Avant-garde Performance & Therapies
2 Carl Abrahamsson – Literchoor, Kulchur and a Damned Fine Friendship: on the Symbiosis of Ezra Pound and James Laughlin
3 Tom Banger & Koshka – Investigating Initiation: Temple ov Psychick Youth, North America
4 Blanche Barton – The Roots of Modern Satanism: Profane, Profound and Sundry
5 Katy Bohinc – Poetry as Magic
6 Ethan Clarke – Futurism & Social Consciousness
7 Alexander Cummins – Dirt Astrology: Geomancy & the Earthly Zeitgeist
8 John Cussans – Secret Committees, Collective Beings & the Revolutionary Egregore
9 Ugo Dossi – Oracles in Automatic Drawing
10 Phillip English – Galdr: On Runes, Chant & Trauma
11 Jesse Hathaway Diaz – Apocalypti/c/orazon
12 Kadmus – True to the Earth and a Pagan Conception of the Self
13 Langston Kahn – Shades and Shadows: How Our Unresolved Ancestors and Denied Selves Hold the Keys to Our Collective Liberation
14 Dorota Kownacka-Rogulska – Legacy of Antiquity in Texts of Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Ancient Origin of Human Future and Moment of Present Contribution.
15 Demetrius Lacroix – Spirituality as a Response to Fighting Social Inequality, featuring Marie Laveau & Mambo Ciceal Faitiman
16 Simon Magus – The Fin-de-siecle Magical Aesthetic of Austin Osman Spare: Siderealism, Atavism, Automatism, Occultism.
17 Katrina Makkouk – Pound’s Occultism: the Development of Automatic Writing & Occult Philosophy in the Pisan Cantos
18 Stephanie Moran & Anna Sebastian – Mantic Staining: Divinatory Paintings of Ithell Colquhoun
19 Kasper Ostrup – Myths of the Near Future: Radicalising Body and Mind
20 Aria Michaels Paradise – As Within, So Without. The Fin-de-siecle Zeitgeist
21 Elisabeth Punzi & Per Magnus Johansson – Psychoanalysis and the freedom of thought; Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)
22 Siegfried de Rachewiltz – Ezra Pound & the Genius Loci of the Brunnenburg
23 Charlotte Rodgers – Spiritual Evolution; For the Masses or for the Few?
24 Emily Schumacher – Spell in Craft: the Weaving and Forging of a Magical Tradition in Folk & Fairy Tales
25 Vanessa Sinclair – The Colonial Crusade against Magical Thinking
26 Hans-Peter Söder – True Lies: Towards a Renewal of Mythic Thinking
