highbrowlowlife · RU106: PROFESSOR SHELDON GEORGE ON PSYCHOANALYSIS, TRAUMA & RACE, LACAN
Rendering Unconscious welcomes Professor Sheldon George to the podcast!
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Become a Patron!Sheldon George, PhD is Professor of English and Chair of the English department at Simmons University in Boston, Massachusetts. His scholarship centers most directly on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and applies cultural and literary theory to analyses of American and African-American literature and culture.
He is author of Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity and coeditor, with Jean Wyatt, of Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race, Ethics, Narrative Form. He is currently completing a collection coedited with Derek Hook for Routledge press that is titled Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity and Psychoanalytic Theory.
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Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more.
Rendering Unconscious is also a book and e-book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019)
Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst based Stockholm, who sees clients internationally, specializing in offering quality psychoanalytic treatment remotely and online.
She is the author of 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.
Dr. Sinclair is a founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis.
The track at the end of the episode is “Inside you is outside me (remixed)” from the album “The larval stage of a bookworm (remixed)” by Carl Abrahamsson, remixed by Serena Stucke. Available from Highbrow Lowlife on Bandcamp.
Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast.
Image from Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity by Sheldon George, PhD
