Rendering Unconscious episode 310.
Emmalea Russo is a writer and astrologer. Her poetry and writings on film and visual art have appeared in many venues including Artforum, BOMB, Granta, Compact, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She is here to talk about her new novel Vivienne (2024). A book of her poetry MAGENTA is available on her website. Follow her at Instagram | Substack.
Check out her upcoming courses, as well as past courses on demand.
SUPERNATURAL KNOWLEDGE: A SIMONE WEIL WEEKEND WORKSHOP December 28–29, 2024.
PSYCHO-COSMOS monthly in 2025, beginning January 26.
Check out previous episodes:
RU242: EMMALEA RUSSO ON THE ALCHEMY OF THE WORD
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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 remotely with people all over the world. Follow at Instagram | Twitter | TikTok
Dr. Sinclair contributed a piece on “Freud and the Occult” to The Fenris Wolf 12 (Trapart Books, 2024) edited by Carl Abrahamsson.
She 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. Follow him at: Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Substack
The song at the end of the episode is “Female Godstar” from the album Ready For Business by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy. Available at Pete Murphy’s Bandcamp Page.
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