Rendering Unconscious episode 317.

Carl Abrahamsson is a Swedish author, publisher and filmmaker. His most recent book is Meetings with Remarkable Magicians: Life in the Occult Underground (2024). His publishing company is Trapart Books, Films and Editions. He contributed a chapter to Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (2023) edited by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair. The Fenris Wolf 12 is out now! Follow him at: Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Substack | Email

Coming up November 19th, Carl will be presenting his work on “The No-handed Path as a Magical Method and Philosophy”. To register PayPal $9 to carl AT carlabrahamsson DOT com

Join Dr. Vanessa Sinclair for The Magical Films of Iconic Director Tim Burton, beginning December 1 online via Morbid Anatomy Museum.

December 2nd Online Lecture · Ed Wood’s “Orgy of the Dead” – a Stereoscopic Look at a Classic of Occult Cinema, Presented by Carl Abrahamsson.

Kenneth Anger: American Cinemagician with Carl Abrahamsson, Director of Cinemagician: Conversations with Kenneth Anger, Begins February 2

Morbid Anatomy now offers On-Demand classes. Our courses are available there!

On-Demand · The Magic of Occult Cinema with Carl Abrahamsson

On-Demand · Harnessing the Magic and Creative Power of the Cut-up Method a la William Burroughs, David Bowie, Genesis P-Orridge with Dr. Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson.

On-Demand · Into the Devil’s Den and Back: An Introduction to the History and Magical System of Anton LaVey’s Church of Satan with Carl Abrahamsson.

Rendering Unconscious Podcast received the 2023 Gradiva Award for Digital Media from the National Association for the Advancement for Psychoanalysis (NAAP).

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Rendering Unconscious is also a book series! The first two volumes are now available: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives vols. 1 & 2 (Trapart Books, 2024). 

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Be sure to check out previous episodes:

RU308: CARL ABRAHAMSSON ON THE MAGIC OF OCCULT CINEMA, THE FENRIS WOLF & SOURCE MAGIC MENTORING

RU7: CARL ABRAHAMSSON ON FORMULATING THE DESIRED: SIMILARITIES BETWEEN PSYCHOANALYSIS & RITUAL MAGIC

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Rendering Unconscious podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst based in Sweden who works remotely with people all over the world. Follow at Instagram | Twitter | TikTok

Dr. Sinclair is the author of Things Happen (Trapart Books, 2024), The Pathways of the Heart (Trapart Books, 2021), Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation (Routledge, 2021) and Switching Mirrors (Trapart Books, 2016).

Dr. Sinclair is the editor of Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives vols. 1 & 2 (Trapart Books, 2024) and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (Routledge, 2023).

She co-edited the books The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond (Routledge, 2025) with Elisabeth Punzi and Myriam Sauer, Outsider Inpatient: Reflections on Art as Therapy (Trapart Books, 2021) with Elisabeth Punzi, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) with Manya Steinkoler, and The Fenris Wolf, vol 9 (Trapart Books, 2017) and The Fenris Wolf, vol 11 (Trapart Books, 2022) co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson.

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

The song at the end of the episode is Be In Touch from the album Ready For Business by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy. Available at Pete Murphy’s Bandcamp Page. 

Our music is also available at Spotify and other streaming services.

Image: book cover