Rendering Unconscious episode 283.

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Katrina Makkouk is an author and researcher who lives in California. She earned her Master’s degree in English from Clemson University. Her primary research interests include modernism and the intersection of occult philosophy and methodology in literature. She’s here to talk about her new book Invoking the Spirits – The Occult Influences in Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos (Trapart Books, 2024).

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Also mentioned in this episode:

Anita Muhl’s book on Automatic Writing (2003).

Richard Ellmann’s Yeats: The Man and the Masks (2000).

Artist Joan Pope

Join us! Online Event · Modern Occultism & A Limitless Search by Mitch Horowitz, Occult Influences In Pound’s Pisan Cantos by Katrina Makkouk Sunday, March 10, 2024, 1:00 PM NYC (10AM PT / 18 CET).

Join Mitch Horowitz for Icons of Modern Esoterica: A Six-Part Online Class, Thursdays, February 22–March 28, 8PM ET

Be sure to check out these previous episodes:

RU65: SCHOLAR KATRINA MAKKOUK & ANTHROPOLOGIST SIEGFRIED DE RACHEWILTZ & ON ENNEMOSER & POUND (FULL PANEL)

RU38: KATRINA MAKKOUK ON AUTOMATIC WRITING & PHILOSOPHY IN EZRA POUND’S PISAN CANTOS

Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works with people internationally. Follow her at Instagram | Twitter TikTok

She 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).

And is the editor of  Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (Routledge, 2023), 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, 2019) co-edited with Dr. 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

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The song at the end of the episode is “A trance to alter consciousness” from the album “Magic City” by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy. Available at Pete Murphy’s Bandcamp Page

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