Rendering Unconscious episode 322.
Anna Moschovakis joins the podcast to discuss her new novel, An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth (Soft Skull Press, 2024). Check out her UPCOMING EVENTS.
ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS works with poetry and prose as a writer, editor, translator, publisher, teacher, and designer. Other books include Participation, Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love, and poetry books They and We Will Get Into Trouble for This and You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. She has also translated Albert Cossery’s The Jokers, Annie Ernaux’s The Possession, and various others. She is a member of the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, and co-founder of Bushel Collective, an experimental mixed-use storefront space in Delhi, NY. Follow her at Instagram.
Rendering Unconscious is also a book series! The first two volumes are now available: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives vols. 1 & 2 (Trapart Books, 2024).
Dr. Vanessa Sinclair is presenting “Cinema as Mirror: Film as Projective Surface” at the online international conference “(De)Montage of the Subject in Cinema and Psychoanalysis” 14th of December 2024, hosted by Psychoanalysis & Cinema Club of Buenos Aires. Begins 10AM Buenos Aires (8AM NYC). Register HERE.
Wednesday, December 18th, Dr. Sinclair will be presenting “Der Doppelgänger, the Artist & Creative Will: The work of psychoanalyst Otto Rank explored through artists Breyer P-Orridge, Val Denham, Pierre Molinier & Ovartaci” at The Last Tuesday Society, Victor Wynd Museum at 8PM London time. Register HERE.
Join Carl Abrahamsson and Vanessa Sinclair for the 4 session course 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. RSVP HERE.
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’” – A paper by Carl Abrahamsson on ‘The Substance’ (2024) and ‘Seconds’ (1966), followed by a conversation with Mary Wild. Register HERE.
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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 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) 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 “There is Only One Libido” from the album This Is Voyeurism by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy. Available at Pete Murphy’s Bandcamp Page.
Our music is also available at Spotify and other streaming services.
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