Rendering Unconscious welcomes Carl Abrahamsson back to the podcast! Carl is presenting “We’re on the Road to Somewhere” on pilgrimage. A version of this talk was first presented at Yule Hyggeasy 2021 on December 11, 2021. This lecture is an essay from his forthcoming book on Inner Traditions 2023.

Carl Abrahamsson is a Swedish author, specializing in Occulture and Magico-anthropology. His books include Resonances (2014), Occulture (2018), The Devil’s Footprint (2020), Sacred Intent (2020), Different People (2021), and Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan (forthcoming from Inner Traditions, 2022). 

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Join us Sunday, December 19th @ 2PM EST live on zoom via Morbid Anatomy Museum: “Up, Up O Ye Gods!” – Hermeticism as a Path for Modern Seekers + Secrecy Exposed! – On the Necessity of Psychic Stigma and Dynamic Darkness in Occultism live via zoom with Mitch Horowitz and Carl Abrahamsson.

Join us Sunday, January 23rd @ 2PM EST live on zoom via Morbid Anatomy Museum: The Psychic Violence of Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski’s Apartment Trilogy: Repulsion, Rosemary’s Baby and The Tenant: Part of Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult with Todd McGowan and Mary Wild.

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Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Vanessa Sinclair, PsyD. As part of GCAS Certificate in Psychoanalysis, I will be teaching The Unconscious Act: Theories of Repetition in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis.

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Check out previous Rendering Unconscious episodes with Carl Abrahamsson:

RU7: CARL ABRAHAMSSON ON FORMULATING THE DESIRED: PSYCHOANALYSIS & RITUAL

RU28: VANESSA SINCLAIR & CARL ABRAHAMSSON DISCUSS RENDERING UNCONSCIOUS, THE BOOK

RU44: CARL ABRAHAMSSON PRESENTS “INTUITION AS A STATE OF GRACE”

RU82: VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGIST ETHAN CLARKE & AUTHOR CARL ABRAHAMSSON ON MYTH & MEDIA (FULL PANEL)

RU118: CARL ABRAHAMSSON PRESENTS “CARL JUNG – MYTH MAKER”

RU133: CARL ABRAHAMSSON PRESENTS “THE MAGIC OF DREAMS MADE REAL”

RU154: CARL ABRAHAMSSON ON THEE TEMPLE OV PSYCHICK YOUTH (TOPY)

RU161: CARL ABRAHAMSSON PRESENTS ANTON LAVEY – MAGICAL INNOVATOR

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Dr. Sinclair is the author of The Pathways of the Heart (Trapart Books, 2021), Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: the Cut in Creation (Routledge, 2020) and Switching Mirrors (Trapart Books, 2016).

Dr. Sinclair is the editor of Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019) Outsider Inpatient: Reflections on Art as Therapy (Trapart Books, 2021) with Dr. Elisabeth Punzi, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2018) co-edited with Dr. Manya Steinkoler, and The Fenris Wolf, vol 9 (Trapart, 2017) co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson. 

The track at the end of the episode is “Mad Love” from the album “Cut to Fit the Mouth” by Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson, available digitally on Bandcamp from Highbrow Lowlife and as a limited edition CD box set from Trapart Editions.

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

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