For this episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast, Jesse Hathaway Diaz presents Apocalypti/c/orazon at Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism and Psychoanalysis, at Schloss Pienzenau, Merano, Italy, May 31, 2019.

Jesse Hathaway Diaz is a folklorist, diviner, artist and performer living in New York City. He has a MA in Performance Studies and initiations in several forms of witchcraft from both Europe and the Americas, he is also a lifelong student of Mexican Curanderismo, a priest of Obatalá in the Lucumí orisha tradition, and a Tatá Quimbanda. He is also a member of the experimental theatre group Dzieci, based in New York City. He is the goat-half of Wolf and Goat, a store specializing in occult art, esoterica and materia magica from many traditions including Traditional Craft and Quimbanda. His blog can be found at www.serpentshod.com

His writings have been published by Scarlet Imprint and by Revelore Press, where he also co-edits the Folk Necromancy in Transmission Series. Along with Dr. Al Cummins, he is a co-host of the Radio Free Golgotha podcast.

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Dr. Sinclair is the author of The Pathways of the Heart (Trapart Books, 2021), Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: the Cut in Creation (Routledge, 2020) and Switching Mirrors (Trapart Books, 2016), and the editor of Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019) Outsider Inpatient: Reflections on Art as Therapy (Trapart Books, 2021) with Dr. Elisabeth Punzi, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2018) co-edited with Dr. Manya Steinkoler, and The Fenris Wolf, vol 9 (Trapart, 2017) co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson. 

The track at the end of the episode is Inner Underworld from the album of the same name by Vanessa Sinclair and Henrik Nordvargr Björkk. Available via Bandcamp.

Music for intro and outro of Rendering Unconscious Podcast by Carl Abrahamsson.

Photo of Jesse Hathaway by Carl Abrahamsson at Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult, London, England, 2016.