RU47: Rendering S. Alfonso Williams Unconscious, Independent Scholar on Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity

S. Alfonso Williams is an Independent Researcher based in Cleveland, Ohio. He has been immersed in the world of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and theory for the past five years following the path of auto-didacticism. Some of his numerous research interests include Polyvalence (the disjunction between Ontology and Epistemology), psychosis, dissociation and disavowal, Everyday Psychopathology and the dimensional limits of "Normalcy," the irreducibility of Heterogeneity and Difference, Identity, the limits of Subjectivity, mass psychology, sexual difference, deadlocks and paradoxes of all sorts, among others. Three key theorists he is heavily invested in right now are Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, and Jacques Lacan. Five of his favorite fiction authors include James Baldwin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Clarice Lispector, Jose Saramago, and Zadie Smith. Mr. Williams holds a Bachelor's Degree from Case Western Reserve University in Art History and Sociology. He currently works as a Circulation Assistant at the Ingalls Library at the Cleveland Museum of Art. His website is www.theoryandanalysis.wordpress.com. Follow him at: Facebook (all up-to-date LIVE writing occurs here): https://www.facebook.com/s.williams.56 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theoryandanalysis/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/theoryanalysis 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. Episodes are also created from lectures given at various international conferences. Rendering Unconscious Podcast can be found at Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo... Please visit www.renderingunconscious.org/about for links to all of these sites. Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart, 2019): store.trapart.net/details/00000 Please support the podcast at: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl For more information visit: www.theoryandanalysis.wordpress.com www.trapart.net www.drvanessasinclair.net www.renderingunconscious.org www.dasunbehagen.org In this episode we discuss Mr. Williams' review: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&authuser=1&user=akdxRZ0AAAAJ&fbclid=IwAR2DB6tR6Bva-T8i5pZBPEHld8wbHTLt1quLbvRUKAWjVPI1o9iG7fI57eg#citation_for_view=akdxRZ0AAAAJ%3AmvPsJ3kp5DgC&hl=en&tzom=-60&user=akdxRZ0AAAAJ of Dr. Robert Beshara's book Decolonial Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2019): https://www.routledge.com/Decolonial-Psychoanalysis-Towards-Critical-Islamophobia-Studies-1st-Edition/Beshara/p/book/9780367174132 Mr. Williams is also an active supporter of: Blake's Dungeon Quarterly Magazine: www.blakesdungeon.com Dr. Gregory B. Sadler's Half-Hour Hegel Project: https://www.patreon.com/sadler Andrew McLuhan and The McLuhan Institute: https://themcluhaninstitute.com/ The First International Queer Death Studies conference is mentioned in this episode: https://www.kau.se/en/centre-gender-studies/date/first-international-queer-death-studies-conference-death-matters The song at the end of the episode is "I formulated myself for myself only" from the upcoming album "The chapel is empty." Words by Vanessa Sinclair. Sounds by Akoustik Timbre Frekuency. From Highbrow Lowlife: www.highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com Portraits of S. Alfonso Williams www.theoryandanalysis.wordpress.com