On The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: A Conversation for Rendering Unconscious

Back in March, I joined Myriam Sauer, Griffin Hansbury, and M.E. O’Brien for a conversation on Rendering Unconscious Episode 337, devoted to the anthology The Queerness of Psychoanalysis. The episode was hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, an American psychoanalyst based in Sweden, whose generous interviewing style shaped the depth and openness of our exchange.

Rendering Unconscious is an award-winning podcast, recipient of the Gradiva Award for Digital Media from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP). Founded by Dr. Sinclair in 2018, the show brings together psychoanalysts, psychologists, philosophers, artists, activists, writers, scholars, and creative practitioners for conversations that cut across theory, politics, and everyday life. It’s a space of free association and honest inquiry, committed to broadening the field of psychoanalysis by amplifying diverse worldviews and forms of knowledge.

In Episode 337, our roundtable moved through the central questions animating The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: how queerness unsettles and builds upon the foundations of psychoanalytic theory; how trans and queer lives reconfigure clinical assumptions; and how relationality transforms when we refuse the field’s long history of pathologization. What moved me most was our collective commitment to imagining psychoanalysis otherwise.

You can find the episode here:

RU337: Myriam Sauer, Griffin Hansbury, M.E. O’Brien & Tobias Wiggins on The Queerness of Psychoanalysis — Rendering Unconscious Eps. 377