RU411: MYRIAM SAUER, "EMPTINESS IS THE CURE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS" – THE QUEERNESS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru411-myriam-sauer-emptiness-is-the
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Welcome to a very special episode of Rendering Unconscious podcast!
As TODAY is the one year anniversary of the inaugural event of RU Center for Psychoanalysis, I have turned the very first RU Center event into an episode of RU POD.
Rendering Unconscious episode 411.
This episode is the very first event for Rendering Unconscious Center for Psychoanalysis, which celebrates the book The Queerness of Psychoanalysis (2025) and the launch of RU Center. To begin, I outline some of the goals of RU Center for Psychoanalysis, highlighting upcoming courses and events, including my Introduction to Psychoanalysis class. Myriam then presents her chapter, “Emptiness is the Cure for Psychoanalysis,” from The Queerness of Psychoanalysis (2025) in which she looks at the work of Swiss psychoanalyst Danielle Quinodoz, who wrote up an early trans* affirmative case study. Some themes of the discussion that follows include the alienation experienced by trans individuals in the field of psychoanalysis and the potential for transness to challenge rigid norms, gender and otherwise, emphasizing the need for a trans-affirmative psychoanalysis and the importance of questioning societal norms.
I am posting this event for everyone as a celebration of the official opening of RU Center for Psychoanalysis!
Check out the book: The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond (Routledge, 2025). https://amzn.to/44SnL49
News & events:
Rendering Unconscious Center for Psychoanalysis is celebrating 1 year!
Join us THIS SATURDAY, July 18th for a LIVE Rendering Unconscious Podcast event to celebrate the one year anniversary of RU Center with special guests Mary Wild, Emmalea Russo, and Mikita Brottman and Carter Carter. More TBA! All paid subscribers at RU Podcast and RU Center Substacks will receive the ZOOM LINK to attend live. https://renderingunconscious.substack.com
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See you there!
Rendering Unconscious is also a book: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/4sOqSEu
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