Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

RU407: LANGSTON KAHN & ALESSANDRO RŌZ ON WOVEN: A RITUAL OF BELONGING FOR QUEER MEN https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru407-langston-kahn-and-alessandro Rendering Unconscious welcomes Alessandro Rōz and Langston Kahn to the podcast! They’re here to talk about their upcoming event Woven: A Ritual of Belonging for Queer Men, a four-day immersive ceremony to be held in SICILY, JULY 23–26, 2026. https://www.brotherhoodoflovers.com Rendering Unconscious episode 407. On this episode, Langston and Alessandro discuss the upcoming Brotherhood of Lovers retreat in Sicily, WOVEN, aimed at fostering deep belonging and intimacy among queer men. The retreat will include ecstatic dance, somatic work, and elemental rituals, emphasizing transformation and ecstasy. Alessandro and Langston stress the need for men to reclaim their full selves, including cut off feminine and queer aspects. They highlight the importance of integrating queer perspectives and challenging heteropatriarchal norms. The conversation also touches upon the role of queer people in society and the transformative power of erotic energy. Together Alessandro Rōz and Langston Kahn co-founded the queer-led mystery school Brotherhood of Lovers. https://www.brotherhoodoflovers.com Follow them on Instagram at: https://www.alessandroroz.com https://www.instagram.com/LangstonKahn https://www.instagram.com/BrotherhoodofLovers Listen to Audre Lorde read Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power https://youtu.be/aWmq9gw4Rq0?si=OWas_dCb9Ufj58Xz ______ Check out previous related episodes: RU249: LANGSTON KAHN & DAVID SHI ON WORKING WITH ANCESTORS & SPIRIT VOICES RU163: LANGSTON KAHN ON DEEP LIBERATION: SHAMANIC TOOLS FOR RECLAIMING WHOLENESS IN A CULTURE OF TRAUMA RU63: LANGSTON KAHN – “THE THING WHICH KNOWLEDGE CAN’T EAT: GODS, ARCHETYPES & THE MIND” RU57: LANGSTON KAHN, “SHADES & SHADOWS: HOW OUR UNRESOLVED ANCESTORS & DENIED SELVES HOLD THE KEYS TO OUR COLLECTIVE LIBERATION” ______ You may find your favorite Rendering Unconscious Podcast episodes and guests here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/episodes News & events: Beginning Sunday, July 5th, Carl Abrahamsson is teaching a 4 week online course on author J.G. Ballard – The Psychosexual Pathology of Industrial Culture: The World of J.G. Ballard: with Author Carl Abrahamsson, Begins July 5: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/jg-ballard-the-psychosexual-pathology-of-industrial-culture-with-author-carl-abrahamsson See you there! ______ Rendering Unconscious is also a book: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/4sOqSEu Thank you for being a paid subscriber to Rendering Unconscious Podcast. It makes my work possible. If you are so far a free subscriber, thanks to you too. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to gain access to all the material on the site, including new, future, and archival podcast episodes. It’s so important to maintain independent spaces free from censorship and corporate influence. If you are interested in pursuing psychoanalytic treatment or supervision with me, please feel free to contact me directly: www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ The song at the end of this episode is "Soft Explosion" from the album "The Somewhat Lost Horizon" by White Stains: https://whitestains.bandcamp.com/album/the-somewhat-lost-horizon-1991 Also available at Spotify and other streaming services. https://open.spotify.com/artist/3U9uOvTy0hvPGgWWH9V4No?si=to_XwcuhS4KSOCFTBKDNPA Links to everything can be found at: https://linktr.ee/renderingunconscious Enjoy! Thank You.

Watch the full video here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru405-cut-ups-and-23rd-mind-with RU405: CUT-UPS & 23RD MIND WITH KATELAN FOISY, CARL ABRAHAMSSON & VANESSA SINCLAIR Rendering Unconscious episode 405. Welcome to a very special episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast! I cut segments from a recent class Carl and I gave via Morbid Anatomy Museum online “Expand Your Art or Writing Practice Using the Cut-up Technique of David Bowie and William Burroughs,” with special guest Katelan Foisy. We provide some history of the cut-up method pulled from my book Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation (2021) and discuss the ways in which we have applied it ourselves and collaboratively. https://amzn.to/4oxhkfC If you enjoy this, you may view a 4 session course we gave on the same topic at Carl’s The Fenris Wolf Substack, where you’ll find a host of other lectures and teachings, including An Introduction to Occulture, Occult Cinema, and Nordic Rune Magic. Enjoy! https://thefenriswolf.substack.com/t/teachings Starting Sunday, June 21st, Katelan Foisy is giving a 4 week online course BREAK THE FRAME: REBUILDING REALITY THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY, WRITING, AND ART where I will participate and guest lecture. https://www.katelanfoisy.com/market/breaking-reality Then on Wednesday, June 24th, I will be hosting Mary Wild for The Man Who Fell Into Himself: David Bowie’s 1970s Transformations at RU Center for Psychoanalysis. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-man-who-fell-into-himself-david-bowies-1970s-transformations-tickets-1986912621136 And beginning Sunday, July 5th, Carl Abrahamsson is teaching a 4 week online course on author J.G. Ballard – The Psychosexual Pathology of Industrial Culture: The World of J.G. Ballard: with Author Carl Abrahamsson, Begins July 5: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/jg-ballard-the-psychosexual-pathology-of-industrial-culture-with-author-carl-abrahamsson See you there! Rendering Unconscious is also a book: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/4sOqSEu Thank you for being a paid subscriber to Rendering Unconscious Podcast. It makes my work possible. If you are so far a free subscriber, thanks to you too. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to gain access to all the material on the site, including new, future, and archival podcast episodes. It’s so important to maintain independent spaces free from censorship and corporate influence. If you are interested in pursuing psychoanalytic treatment or supervision with me, please feel free to contact me directly: www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ The song at the end of this episode is "Introduction (You're Asleep/Awake)" from the album "Night of the Hunter" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/night-of-the-hunter-5 Our music is also available at Spotify and other streaming services. Links to everything can be found at: https://linktr.ee/renderingunconscious Enjoy! Thank You. Image: Katelan, Carl and I in Atlantic City, 2016.

RU385 TOBIAS WIGGINS & JESS JOSEPH ON CISTERIA! A PSYCHOANALYSIS AGAINST ANTI-TRANS PANICS: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru385-tobias-wiggins-and-jess-joseph Rendering Unconscious welcomes Drs. Jess Joseph and Tobias Wiggins to the podcast! https://www.jessicajosephphd.net https://www.tobywiggins.com Rendering Unconscious episode 385. In this episode, I sat down with Tobias and Jess to discuss their special issue of Studies in Gender & Sexuality: “Cisteria!: A Psychoanalysis Against Anti-Trans Panics.” This issue is the first of its kind, bringing together twelve trans and gender-expansive authors (artists, clinicians, scholars, and writers across multiple geographies) to theorize cisteria. This is our reworked concept that flips the long history of psychoanalytic hysteria and examines how cis anxieties are projected onto trans lives at psychical, interpersonal, and political levels. The pieces in the special issue range from analytic essays to poetry, artwork/music, speculative theory, crossword puzzles, collage, and various irreverent riffs taking aim at transphobia through trans world making. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hsgs20/26/4 Be sure to check out the Introduction to the special issue “Cisteria!: A Psychoanalysis Against Anti-Trans Panics.” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15240657.2025.2599019#d1e292 Link to their upcoming free event: Spring Meeting Pre-Conference Workshop: Cisteria! A Psychoanalysis Against Anti-Trans Panics, April 22, 8:30am - 12:00pm ET via Zoom (FREE). https://div39members.wildapricot.org/event-6551035 News & events: Coming up THIS SATURDAY, March 7th: WE MUST NOT TALK ASTROLOGY! With Emmalea Russo: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/see-you-saturday-for-we-must-not Then Saturday, March 14th, join me for the next installment of An Introduction to Psychoanalysis: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/next-up-we-must-not-talk-astrology Rendering Unconscious is also a book series: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): amzn.to/3N6XKIl The song at the end of this episode is "We Become (Blue Flashes)" from the album "Infiltrate" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy: petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/infiltrate-21 Infiltrate has been featured on the latest episode of Radio Panik! www.radiopanik.org/emissions/l-etr…eeform-hemline/ Enjoy! Thank you for being a paid subscriber to Rendering Unconscious Podcast. It makes my work possible. If you are so far a free subscriber, thanks to you too. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to gain access to all the material on the site, including new, future, and archival podcast episodes. It’s so important to maintain independent spaces free from censorship and corporate influence. If you are interested in pursing psychoanalytic treatment with me, please feel free to contact me directly: www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ Thank You.