Description

This edition consists of the 23 first hand numbered copies of the 100 hardbound copies (2017). With each copy comes a print of the cover art, “Venus Castina”, signed by artist Val Denham. The print is in size 210 x 297 mm, and is printed on archival paper, 230 gms.

This volume contains material from the conference Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult (London, 2016), with contributions from Gary Lachman, Vanessa Sinclair, Katelan Foisy, Sharron Kraus, Demetrius Lacroix, Graham Duff, Ken Henson, Peter Grey, Val Denham, Claire-Madeline Culkin, Steven Reisner, Katy Bohinc, Olga Cox Cameron, Ingo Lambrecht, Elliott Edge, Charlotte Rodgers, Alkistis Dimech, Fred Yee, Robert Ansell, Ray O Neill, Derek M Elmore, Julio Mendes Rodrigo, Eve Watson, and Carl Abrahamsson. Topics include Sigmund Freud and the Occult, Art as Alchemy, the art of John Balance, Cut-Ups as a magical and psychoanalytic tool, Maori shamanism within therapy, Animistic art, Dance as ritual, Androgynous aspects in Austin Osman Spare’s art, Salvador Dali’s meeting with Jacques Lacan, Rebis: the Double Being, David Bowie’s Non-Human Effect, similarities between ritual magic and psychoanalysis, and much more.

Trapart Books 2017. 248 pages, 148 x 210 mm, hardbound with dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, very few copies left!

Contents:

Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson – Editors’ Introduction: Looking back at the crossroads
Katelan Foisy – Invocation: Homage to the spirits of the land/London
Sharron Kraus – Art as Alchemy
Demetrius Lacroix – The Seven Layers of the Vodou Soul
Graham Duff – Sublime Fragments: The Art of John Balance
Ken Henson – The American Occult Revival In My Work
Gary Lachman – Was Freud Afraid of the Occult?
Peter Grey – Fly the Light
Val Denham – Proclaim Present Time Over
Katelan Foisy & Vanessa Sinclair – The Cut In Creation
Claire-Madeline Culkin – Beds, Bodies and Other Books of Common Prayer – A Reading of the Photography of Nan Goldin
Steven Reisner – On the Dance of the Occult and Unconscious in Freud
Katy Bohinc – The 12th House: Art and the Unconscious
Olga Cox Cameron – When Shall We 3 Meet Again? Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult: A Clandestine Convergence
Ingo Lambrecht – Wairua: Following shamanic contours in psychoanalytic therapy at a Māori Mental Health Service in New Zealand
Elliott Edge – An Occult Reading of PAO! Imagining in the Dark with Our Vestigial Shamanism in a Shade, Shadow, Wide
Charlotte Rodgers – Stripped to the Core: Animistic Art Action and Magickal Revelation
Alkistis Dimech – Dynamics of the Occulted Body
Fred Yee – Cut-Up As Egregore, Oracle and Flirtation Device
Robert Ansell – Androgyny, Biology and Latent Memory in the Work of Austin Osman Spare
Ray O Neill – Double, Double, Toil and Trouble: Psychoanalysis Burn and Surrealism Bubble
Derek M Elmore – Dreams and the Neither-Neither
Julio Mendes Rodrigo – Rebis, the Double Being
Eve Watson – Bowie’s Non-Human Effect: Alien/Alienation in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) and The Hunger (1983)
Carl Abrahamsson – Formulating the Desired: Some similarities between ritual magic and the psychoanalytic process