RU42: Rendering Dr Derek Hook Unconscious, Lacan, Fanon, Psychoanalysis, Politics, Identity

Today’s discussion is with Dr. Derek Hook, Associate Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and Professor of Psychology at the University of Pretoria. A former lecturer at the London School of Economics and at Birkbeck College, he is a psychoanalytic practitioner, and the author of Six Moments in Lacan. https://www.duq.edu/academics/faculty/derek-hook Reading Lacan's Ecrits book series edited by Derek Hook, Stijn Vanheule and Calum Neill: https://www.routledge.com/Reading-Lacans-Ecrits-From-Signification-of-the-Phallus-to-Metaphor/Vanheule-Hook-Neill/p/book/9780415708029 And most recently, volume 2: https://www.routledge.com/Reading-Lacans-Ecrits-From-The-Freudian-Thing-to-Remarks-on-Daniel/Hook-Neill-Vanheule/p/book/9780415707985 Upcoming Ecrits conference at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, October 11-13, 2019: https://www.duq.edu/academics/schools/liberal-arts/academics/departments/psychology/events/2019-lacans-écrits-conference Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart, 2019): www.trapart.net If you enjoy what we’re doing, please support the podcast at: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Rendering Unconscious Podcast can be found at: Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud Please visit the About page for links to all of these sites: www.renderingunconscious.org/about/ For more, please visit the following websites: www.renderingunconscious.org www.drvanessasinclair.net www.trapart.net www.dasunbehagen.org The track at the end of the episode is “Dream and Body and Voice” from the album Message 23. Words by Vanessa Sinclair. Sounds by Mikronesia. From Highbrow Lowlife: highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson from the exhibition “Mementeros” currently on view at MOPIA, Zürich, from July 4 – August 28, 2019: www.porninart.com