Rendering Unconscious episode 315.
Mary Wild is a prominent figure in the field of film studies, particularly known for her work on psychoanalysis and cinema. Mary contributes to the Evolution of Horror Podcast and hosts a podcast on patreon.com/marywild. She contributed the Foreword to Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (2023) edited by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair. Follow her at Twitter @psycstar and Instagram @psycstar
Join Mary for these upcoming events:
Projections: Death Scenes in Cinema with Mary Wild, Begins January 12, 5-Week Class Taught Online via Zoom, Sundays, January 12 – February 9, 2025, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST (NYC Time).
PROJECTIONS: Feminine Jouissance in Horror Cinema, 13 February, 2025, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm (London Time), online via Freud Museum London.

Rendering Unconscious is also a book series! The first two volumes are now available: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives vols. 1 & 2 (Trapart Books, 2024).
Dr. Sinclair contributed a piece on “Freud and the Occult” to The Fenris Wolf 12 (Trapart Books, 2024) edited by Carl Abrahamsson.
Carl Abrahamsson’s memoir Meetings with Remarkable Magicians: Life in the Occult Underground (Inner Traditions, 2024) was just published! Join us for a Free Online Book Talk to celebrate October 27th.
Join Dr. Vanessa Sinclair for The Magical Films of Iconic Director Tim Burton, beginning December 1 online via Morbid Anatomy Museum.
Morbid Anatomy now offers On-Demand classes. Our courses are available there!
On-Demand · The Magic of Occult Cinema with Carl Abrahamsson

Check out these previous episodes:
RU233: MARY WILD ON DAVID BOWIE & PSYCHOANALYSING HORROR CINEMA
RU208: THE MAGIC OF CINEMA & THE UNCONSCIOUS WITH MARY WILD
RU158: MARY WILD ON PSYCHOANALYSIS & CINEMA, TAXIDERMY IN ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S “PSYCHO”
RU68: MARY WILD, PROJECTIONS CINEPHILE ON THE FREUD NETFLIX SERIES
RU49: MARY WILD, FREUDIAN CINEPHILE ON PROJECTIONS
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Rendering Unconscious Podcast received the 2023 Gradiva Award for Digital Media from the National Association for the Advancement for Psychoanalysis (NAAP).
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Rendering Unconscious podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst based in Sweden who works remotely with people all over the world. Follow at Instagram | Twitter | TikTok
Dr. Sinclair 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).
Dr. Sinclair is the editor of Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives vols. 1 & 2 (Trapart Books, 2024) and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (Routledge, 2023).
She co-edited the books The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond (Routledge, 2025) with Elisabeth Punzi and Myriam Sauer, Outsider Inpatient: Reflections on Art as Therapy (Trapart Books, 2021) with Elisabeth Punzi, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) with 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 | Substack
The song at the end of the episode is “No Nonsense” from the album Ready For Business by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy. Available at Pete Murphy’s Bandcamp Page.
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Image: Uma Thurman in Kill Bill