Rendering Unconscious episode 304.
This is a special episode of Rendering Unconscious, an event hosted by The Red Clinic, recorded on the 5th of May 2023. Titled Class in the Clinic: History, Theory, Practice. With Elizabeth Danto, Lynne Layton, and Ian Parker.
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The Red Clinic is a collective of communist mental health workers united for a radical psychotherapy, for the care of the oppressed, and for uniting the two in the service of communist politics. We aim to develop truly accessible and sustainable provision of psychotherapy for the working-class and the oppressed in the broadest senses of the terms, attentive to the interrelations between axes of oppression, and transcending national borders. This practice will work in tandem with our efforts to develop a novel theoretical basis for psychotherapy today, informed by Marxist, anti-racist, queer feminist, indigenous, decolonial and radical disability theories, learning from our collective experiences in theoretical application, and honing psychotherapy into a better weapon of the communist movement.
Red Clinic is not just a clinic; we are dedicated to fostering social bonds and believe that we must transcend strictly clinical, isolated spaces to engage in more radical social intervention. While keeping praxis at the core of our mission, we recognize that our work is inseparable from the wider socio-political issues that affect us all.
It is important to mention what it means to contribute to the Red Clinic. Everyone contributes through their work—the labour of analysis for the analysand or the labour of listening for the psychoanalyst. What happens to the money you contribute towards your analysis? It ensures that others with less ability to pay can access treatment equally. The more one can contribute, the more resources are gathered for the development and sustainability of the Red Clinic movement, creating a collectivized space. We all give and receive in return, fostering a circulation of resources.
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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).
Rendering Unconscious podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works with people internationally. Follow at Instagram and Twitter.
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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).
She is the editor of Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives vols. 1 & 2 (Trapart Books, 2024), Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (Routledge, 2023), Outsider Inpatient: Reflections on Art as Therapy (Trapart Books, 2021) with Dr. Elisabeth Punzi, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) co-edited with Dr. 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. Follow him at: Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Substack
The song at the end of the episode is “Operation re-write” from the album “Magic City” by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy. Available at Pete Murphy’s Bandcamp Page.
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