RU16: RENDERING JASON HAAF UNCONSCIOUS: Writing, sexuality, dreams, memory, creativity, identity

On this episode of Rendering Unconscious, I speak with Jason Haaf, a writer living in Brooklyn, New York. His non-fiction writing centers on memory, childhood, relationships and identity. Love Case, his debut novel, is a diary-esque series of short stories focused on sexuality, and the growth and experience that comes from repression (https://lovecase.bigcartel.com/). His short story "A Wilderness" is featured in Issue 7 of Hello Mr. Magazine (https://hellomrmag.com/), and he has contributed Love Cases to the upcoming issue of Warm Brothers Magazine (https://www.warmbrothersmag.com/) Jason Haaf contributed poetry to the anthology Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019): https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 The zine Jason refers to is Doable Guys by Kyle Anderson and Lena Green. http://doableguys.com/about/ Support the podcast by joining us at: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Rendering Unconscious is a podcast hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, an American psychoanalyst based in Stockholm. Dr. Sinclair interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, philosophers, creative arts therapists, social workers, artists, poets, writers, scholars and other clinicians and intellectuals about their process, work, current events, activism, mental health care, diverse theoretical lenses and various worldviews. Episodes also include lectures given and recorded at various events hosted internationally. Rendering Unconscious Podcast can also be found at: Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo & SoundCloud  Please visit www.drvanessasinclair.net/podcast or the About page of www.renderingunconscious.org for links to all of these. The track at the end of the episode is “A Slightly Sexual Way of Living” from the album Switching Mirrors upcoming from Erototox Decodings. Words by Vanessa Sinclair. Music by Carl Abrahamsson. https://carlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair www.chaosofthethirdmind.com