RU85: RENDERING S. Alfonso Williams UNCONSCIOUS, THEORY & ANALYSIS, ETHICS, BLACK LIVES MATTER

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: www.facebook.com/s.williams.56 Instagram: www.instagram.com/theoryandanalysis/ Twitter: twitter.com/theoryanalysis This episode also available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/FLmX-TWsyLM Mentioned in this episode: S. Alfonso Williams presenting at the Psychology of Global Crises conference: https://youtu.be/XuO3rC2Jw38 Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: the Cut in Creation by Vanessa Sinclair forthcoming from Routledge November 2020, available for preorder: https://www.routledge.com/Scansion-in-Psychoanalysis-and-Art-The-Cut-in-Creation/Sinclair/p/book/9780367567262 Mary Bergstein's book Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Photography and the History of Art: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8138222-mirrors-of-memory Mary Wild's Projections series via The Freud Museum, London: https://www.freud.org.uk/whats-on/ Andrew McLuhan and The McLuhan Institute: themcluhaninstitute.com/ https://www.patreon.com/mcluhan Derek Hook on YouTube: https://youtu.be/kyhXvX-T7HY FROM LENINGRAD TO LENINFALL: The Geopolitics of Soviet Monuments 100 Years since the Russian Revolution by Myroslava Hartmond: https://youtu.be/SZThptXIsB8 SAW also recommends Todd McGowan's lectures on Youtube: https://youtu.be/uj-5N_7po70 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 The song at the end of the episode is "Unity via Plurality" from the upcoming album "Switching Mirrors" by Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson. https://youtu.be/hCMlDIxRLn4 Switching Mirrors book of cut-up poetry by Vanessa Sinclair available here: https://store.trapart.net/details/00095 And deluxe edition: https://store.trapart.net/details/00027 Portrait of S. Alfonso Williams https://theoryandanalysis.wordpress.com