Rendering Unconscious episode 305.

Griffin Hansbury is an author and a psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC. He’s here to talk about his novel Some Strange Music Draws Me In (2024), as well as Feral City (a Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Nonfiction) and Vanishing New York (both written as Jeremiah Moss). His other books include The Nostalgist (2012 ) and Day for Nighta collection of poems spanning 1993-1999. He’s also written numerous book chapters and journal articles. With Avgi Saketopoulou, he contributed a chapter entitled “Sissy Dance $1: The More and More of Gender” to the forthcoming collection The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond (Routledge, 2025) edited by Vanessa Sinclair, Elisabeth Punzi and Myriam Sauer. Visit his author website.

Follow him at Instagram @vanishingny

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). 

Rendering Unconscious podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works with people internationally. Follow her on social media:  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).

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 on social media: Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Substack

The song at the end of the episode is “Intertzúm” featuring Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson, from the album The Mauve Sessions by DIM∴TZUM.

Vanessa Sinclair’s music also available at BandcampSpotify and other streaming services.

Image: Griffin Hansbury