Rendering Unconscious episode 302.

Drs. Todd McGowan and Walter “Mac” Davis are back to discuss Mac’s new novel The Last Catholic!

 Professor Emeritus Walter A. Davis, Ohio State University, is an actor and playwright, as well as psychoanalyst and theoretician. His many books include Art and Politics: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, Theatre (2007) and Inwardness and Existence: Subjectivity in/and Hegel, Heidegger, Marx, and Freud (1989). His newest book is The Last Catholic: A Novel (2024). Dr. Davis contributed a chapter on the film Persona to the collection  Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (2023) edited by Vanessa Sinclair. 

Professor Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of many books, including Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (2019) and The Impossible David Lynch (2007). His most recent book is Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn’t Try to Find Ourselves (2024).

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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RU302: TODD MCGOWAN & WALTER A. DAVIS ON BERGMAN, HEGEL, PHILOSOPHY & PSYCHOANALYSIS

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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.

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The song at the end of the episode is “Are you doing the work angelic?” by Vanessa Sinclair and Joachim Nordwall from the album “Message 23.” Available at Highbrow Lowlife’s Bandcamp Page.

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