RU81: Rendering DR David Pavón Cuéllar Unconscious "Coronavirus as a symptom"

For today's episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast, Dr. David Pavón Cuéllar presents his text "Coronavirus as a symptom" originally prepared for Lacan Salon. You may find the original article here: http://www.lacansalon.com/listening-to-covid-19/coronavirus-as-a-symptom David Pavón Cuéllar is Professor of Marxism, Social Psychology and Psychoanalysis at the State University of Michoacán (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico). He is the author of the books Marxisme lacanien (Paris, Psychophores, 2009),From the Conscious Interior to an Exterior Unconscious: Lacan, Discourse Analysis and Social Psychology (London, Karnac, 2010), andElementos políticos de marxismo lacaniano (Mexico, Paradiso, 2014), as well as co-editor, with Ian Parker, of Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy (London & New York, Routledge, 2013). He belongs to the Editorial Boards of Annual Review of Critical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Politics International, Teoría y Crítica de la Psicología, and Revista Marxismos: Educación, Política y Sociedad. He is interested in critical psychology, discourse analysis, Lacanian Discourse Analysis, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Freudo-Marxism, Marxism, communism, liberation psychology and the Zapatista movement. http://www.criticalinstitute.org/david-pavon-cuellar/ Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists and other creatives & intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. www.renderingunconscious.org Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (2019)is available from Trapart Books: store.trapart.net/details/00000 You can support the podcast at our Patreon: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Rendering Unconscious podcast can be found at Spotify, iTunes, Podbean, YouTube and your other favorite podcast platforms. Visit www.renderingunconscious.org/about/ for links. Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is an American psychoanalyst now based Stockholm, who sees clients internationally, specializing in offering quality psychoanalytic treatment remotely and online. This may be of interest for freelancers, students, people of varying abilities and those who live rurally and may not otherwise have access to psychoanalytic treatment, those who work from home, have small children, or may be homebound. This is also a useful framework for people with active lifestyles, who are constantly on the go – entrepreneurs, creatives, business people, actors, ex-pats. For those who often travel, the ability to see a high quality clinician remotely aids continuity of care. www.drvanessasinclair.net The track at the end of the episode is from Lunacy (Original Soundtrack)by Carl Abrahamsson and Vanessa Sinclair available digitally: https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com/album/lunacy-ost On DVD: https://store.trapart.net/details/00016 And at Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/lunacy Portrait of Dr. David Pavón Cuéllar Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair