Rendering Unconscious welcomes Professor David Pavón Cuéllar back to the podcast!

For today’s episode, Dr. David Pavón Cuéllar presents his text “Lacanization of Marxism,” a modified excerpt from an article he published last year in Crisis and Critique. 

This episode is also available at YouTube:

You may also listen to his previous lecture on Rendering Unconscious, RU81: PROFESSOR DAVID PAVÓN CUÉLLAR PRESENTS “CORONAVIRUS AS A SYMPTOM” where he recites a text originally prepared for Lacan Salon. You may find the original article here.

David Pavón Cuéllar is Professor of Marxism, Social Psychology and Psychoanalysis at the State University of Michoacán (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico). He is the author of the books Marxisme lacanien (Paris, Psychophores, 2009), From the Conscious Interior to an Exterior Unconscious: Lacan, Discourse Analysis and Social Psychology (London, Karnac, 2010), and Elementos políticos de marxismo lacaniano (Mexico, Paradiso, 2014), as well as co-editor, with Ian Parker, of Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy (London & New York, Routledge, 2013). He belongs to the Editorial Boards of Annual Review of Critical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Politics International, Teoría y Crítica de la Psicología, and Revista Marxismos: Educación, Política y Sociedad. He is interested in critical psychology, discourse analysis, Lacanian Discourse Analysis, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Freudo-Marxism, Marxism, communism, liberation psychology and the Zapatista movement. http://www.criticalinstitute.org/david-pavon-cuellar/

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Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst based Stockholm, who sees clients internationally, specializing in offering quality psychoanalytic treatment remotely and online. Her books include Switching Mirrors (2016), The Fenris Wolf vol 9 (2017) co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (2018) co-edited with Manya Steinkoler, and Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: the Cut in Creation forthcoming from Routledge 2020. Dr. Sinclair is a founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis. 

The track at the end of the episode is from Lunacy (Original Soundtrack) by Carl Abrahamsson and Vanessa Sinclair available digitally at Bandcamp on DVD and at Vimeo. 

Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast.

Portrait of Dr. David Pavón Cuéllar