Rendering Unconscious episode 291.

Jason Haaf is here to talk about his new book Can I See Your Niche? (Trapart Books, 2023)! We also dish about The Woman in Me (2023) by Britney Spears and Matthew Perry’s Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (2022).

Join Jason Haaf, Vanessa Sinclair, and Ad Vat for the launch of their books Can I See Your Niche? (Trapart Books, 2023), Things Happen (Trapart Books, 2024), and A Spiral of Objects (Trapart Books, 2023), respectively, at Quimby’s Bookstore NYC in Brooklyn on Saturday, May 11, 2024. Follow us on social media: @haafwit | @rawsin | @advat | @quimbysbookstorenyc

Join Vanessa Sinclair in Miami at Books & Books, Coconut Grove, on Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 6:30PM for a book launch for my first novel Things Happen (Trapart Books, 2024).

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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Be sure to check out our previous discussions:

RU187: JASON HAAF, TOM BLAND & ZAII VALDES ON WRITING, POETRY, QUEER, SEXUALITY, ART, MAGIC

RU91: AUTHOR & EDITOR JASON HAAF ON BENT BOOK, A QUEER ANTHOLOGY + ANCESTRY

RU16: JASON HAAF, QUEER WRITER ON MEMORY, DREAMS, CREATIVITY, SEXUALITY

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 | Substack

Check out Swedish independent record label Highbrow Lowlife. Enjoy! 

The song at the end of the episode is “Contorted, aroused” from the album Magic City by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy. Available at Pete Murphy’s Bandcamp Page.

You can also find music by Vanessa Sinclair & Pete Murphy at Spotify and other streaming services.

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