RU37: Psychoanalyst Vanessa Sinclair, "The Crusade Against Magical Thinking"

This episode is a lecture by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair entitled "The Crusade Against Magical Thinking" given at Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism and Psychoanalysis, Brunnenburg Castle in Merano, Italy, June 1, 2019. Dr. Sinclair is introduced by Dr. Kasper Opstrup. For more about the conference, please visit www.psychartcult.org. Rendering Unconscious is a podcast about psychoanalysis, culture and more hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst from New York City, now based in Stockholm. www.renderingunconscious.org Dr. Sinclair sees patients internationally, specializing in online and remote treatment for entrepreneurs, creatives and business people who travel, offering continuity and quality of care for modern people on the go, as well as for those who are home-bound or live in remote locations and may not otherwise have access to psychoanalytic treatment. www.drvanessasinclair.net Quoted in this episode: Dr. MJ Maher: https://www.karnacbooks.com/Author.asp?AID=18677 Dr. Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold: https://scarletimprint.com/nicholaj-de-mattos-frisvold/ A version of this talk was first presented at the conference Psychoanalysis and Politics: Colonial Fantasies, Violent Transmission, organized by Dr. Lene Auestad, held at the Swedish Psychoanalytic Association, Stockholm, May 10-12, 2019. www.psa-pol.org Dr. Sinclair is the editor of: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019): https://store.trapart.net/books/167-rendering-unconscious-pre-order.html?search_query=rendering+unconscious&results=7 On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2018) co-edited with Dr. Manya Steinkoler: https://www.routledge.com/On-Psychoanalysis-and-Violence-Contemporary-Lacanian-Perspectives/Sinclair-Steinkoler/p/book/9781138346338 The Fenris Wolf, vol 9(Trapart, 2017)co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson: https://store.trapart.net/home/123-the-fenris-wolf-9.html Dr. Sinclair is the author of Switching Mirrors (Trapart Books, 2016): https://store.trapart.net/home/113-switching-mirrors-23-edition.html?search_query=switching+mirrors&results=4 She is currently working on Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: Another Royal Road forthcoming from Routledge (2020).  A founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis, Dr. Sinclair facilitates lectures, events and conferences internationally. www.dasunbehagen.org For more information, please visit:   www.renderingunconscious.org www.trapart.net  www.drvanessasinclair.net www.dasunbehagen.org Please support the podcast at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl The song at the end of the episode is "I'm in Love with a Witch" by Carl Abrahamsson remixed by knifesex from the album "The Larval Stage of a Bookworm(Remixed)" https://carlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com https://knifesex.bandcamp.com Photo by Carl Abrahamsson