In times of crisis, one needs to stop and ask, \u201cHow did we get here?\u201d Our contemporary chaos is the result of a society built upon pervasive systems of oppression, discrimination and violence that run deeper and reach further than most understand or care to realize. These draconian systems have been fundamental to many aspects of our lives, and we seem to have gradually allowed them more power. However, our foundation is not solid; it is fractured and collapsing \u2013 if we allow that. We need to start applying new models of interpretation and analysis to the deep-rooted problems at hand.<\/p>
Rendering Unconscious<\/em> brings together international scholars, psychoanalysts, psychologists, philosophers, researchers, writers and poets; reflecting on current events, politics, the state of mental health care, the arts, literature, mythology, and the cultural climate; thoughtfully evaluating this moment of crisis, its implications, wide-ranging effects, and the social structures that have brought us to this point of urgency.<\/p> Hate speech, Internet stalking, virtual violence, the horde mentality of the alt-right, systematic racism, the psychology of rioting, the theater of violence, fake news, the power of disability, erotic transference and counter-transference, the economics of libido, Eros and the death drive, fascist narratives, psychoanalytic formation as resistance, surrealism and sexuality, traversing genders, and colonial counterviolence are but a few of the topics addressed in this thought-provoking and inspiring volume.<\/p> This is an expanded edition of the highly successful original Rendering Unconscious<\/em> book, and is published in two volumes. www.drvanessasinclair.net www.renderingunconscious.org<\/p> VOLUME ONE:<\/p> Vanessa Sinclair New Editor\u2019s Introduction<\/em><\/p> Vanessa Sinclair Old Editor\u2019s Introduction<\/em><\/p> Sinclair & Abrahamsson Conversation about R.U. <\/em><\/p> Marc Strauss On Violence<\/em><\/p> Gavriel Reisner The Absent Feminine<\/em><\/p> Alison Annunziata Love as War in the Digital Age<\/em><\/p> Kendalle Getty Poems<\/em><\/p> Gerald Sand The Horde Mentality<\/em><\/p> White-Davis & Kotay Racial Oppression & Health<\/em><\/p> Luce deLire Baltimore<\/em><\/p> Jason Haaf Nineteen Six<\/em><\/p> Chiara Bottici The Mass Psychology of Trumpism<\/em><\/p> Brad Evans Poems<\/em><\/p> Emma Lieber Bellowing Presidents<\/em><\/p> Shara Hardeson Try to Remember<\/em><\/p> Elena Petrovska Selected Poems <\/em><\/p> Jill Gentile Hate Speech<\/em><\/p> Greg Stevens Dancing with Hate<\/em><\/p> Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez On Object Loss <\/em><\/p> Marie Brown Aberrant Salience <\/em><\/p> Craig Slee Creeping Mortality<\/em><\/p> Amy Gaeta Selected Poems<\/em><\/p> David Lichtenstein Das Unbehagen<\/em><\/p> Vanessa Sinclair Duchamp, Dada & Psychoanalysis<\/em><\/p> John Dall\u2019aglio Founding a Psychoanalytic Society<\/em><\/p> Punzi & Johansson Freud\u2019s View of Femininity <\/em><\/p> Liza Beth Paap A Letter <\/em><\/p> Matthew Oyer Wounded Dramatization<\/em><\/p> Buffy Cain Apr\u00e8s-Coup<\/em><\/p> Claire-Madeline Corso Inheritance<\/em><\/p> Daniel Deweese A Future Non-Understanding<\/em><\/p> Julie Futrell Re\/envisioning the Feminine<\/em><\/p> Isik Baris Fidaner The Scissors of Semblances <\/em><\/p> Benjamin Y. Fong Assholes<\/em><\/p> Wayne Wapeemukwa Parallaxes of Oedipal Violence<\/em><\/p> Sergio Benvenuto The Other than Brother <\/em><\/p> Tom Bland Delirium<\/em><\/p> Germ Lynn Blackout Poetry<\/em><\/p> Vanessa Sinclair Screen as Mirror <\/em><\/p> Alois Sieben Auto-Dreams <\/em><\/p> Peter Milne Greiner No Castle Poems <\/em><\/p> Andrew Daul The Terminal Basin <\/em><\/p> Trapart Books 2024, 6 x 9\u201d paperback, 296 pages, illustrated. Also available as an e-book. The e-book is available here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>
Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is an American psychoanalyst, based in Sweden, who sees clients internationally. She is the author ofThings Happen <\/em>(2024) and other books, and co-editor of On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives<\/em> (2019) with Dr. Manya Steinkoler. Dr. Sinclair also hosts the award-winning Rendering Unconscious<\/em> podcast, addressing the state of psychoanalysis and mental health care, politics, the arts, culture and current events. She is a founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis, and arranges psychoanalytic conferences internationally. For more information, please visit:<\/p>