Rendering Unconscious episode 330.

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Craig VI Slee back to the podcast!

Craig VI Slee is a writer, poet, consultant, and theorist, who lives in the North West of the UK. Born with Cerebral Palsy, and latterly a partial-foot amputee, he is a full-time wheelchair user whose work covers the intersections between disability, environment, philosophy, storytelling, magic, and myth. He blogs at www.cold-albion.net. Follow him at BlueSky | Mastodon.

Slee contributed the piece “Creeping Mortality: Some Thoughts on Cripkult” to Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives vol. 1 (Trapart Books, 2024) edited by Vanessa Sinclair and “The Occult Nature of Cripkult” to The Fenris Wolf 10 (Trapart Books, 2023) edited by Carl Abrahamsson.

Joins us THIS SUNDAY for Kenneth Anger: American Cinemagician with Carl Abrahamsson, Beginning February 2 online via Morbid Anatomy Museum.

Watch Cinemagician: Conversations with Kenneth Anger and all of Carl Abrahamsson’s films at The Fenris Wolf Substack.

Join us in London for the book launch for Meetings with Remarkable Magicians: Life in the Occult Underground by Carl Abrahamsson at Watkins Books, February 27th.

Then on February 28th, join us at Freud Museum, London for “Be Careful What You Wish For – Female & Male Existential Malaise and Hysteric Approaches in ‘The Substance’ and ‘Seconds’.”

Beginning March 23rd, join author Carl Abrahamsson and psychoanalyst Vanessa Sinclair for The Sentient Solar Cycle, a year long series of monthly workshops/meetings via Zoom.

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Watch this discussion at YouTube:

Check out this previous episode:

RU12: CRAIG VI SLEE ON DISABILITY, MYTHOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY

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 | TikTok | Blusky

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) 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 “Outer realities blend” from the album “We reign supreme” 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: collage by Miriam Morrissette