#morbidacademy

The LATEST on Rendering Unconscious Podcast. www.renderingunconscious.org Episode 203 Artist Charlotte Rodgers presents "Spiritual Evolution: For the Masses or for the Few?" at the second Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference, Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism and Psychoanalysis. Join us Sunday July 17 for a talk about necromancy, Art, animism and working with ancestors of both blood and adoption @morbidanatomy sign up at www.morbidanatomy.org/events @carl.abrahamsson @charlottejrodgers #psychartcult #morbidanatomy #morbidacademy #animism #necromancy #renderingunconsciouspodcast #psychoanalysis #art #occult #occulture https://www.instagram.com/p/CgAV6Yor8Ki/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#REPOST @morbidanatomy with @get__repost__app June 19, join us for a special Juneteenth edition of Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult! Click the link in our bio and select EVENTS or visit www.morbidanatomy.org/events to learn more and register. Animism for Apocalypse: Working with Spirits and Ancestors to Find Freedom in Endings by @langstonkahn According to the majority of indigenous peoples’ oral histories, the world has ended many times. After the world ends, the human experiment begins again with those who survive and in the space between worlds, the birth of the new world is shaped by the stories the surviving humans choose to bring with them. What is required in the space between worlds is that we carefully tend both the personal and collective stories we carry with us, because they will manifest through our actions. As we navigate this time of so many cataclysmic endings and new beginnings, many of us feel disoriented, tired and uncertain about the future. What might we learn from our ancestors, our helping spirits and the Earth about the stories keeping us from tending these endings well? Spirit Voices: The Mysteries and Magic of North Asian Shamanic Traditions by @davidjshi311 David Shi will be talking about his new book Spirit Voices: The Mysteries and Magic of North Asian Shamanic Traditions, which will be coming out in Spring 2023. Shi explores the history and practice of shamanism. What is it? Where is it from? What do shamans actually do? He guides the audience through unfamiliar territory—the landscape of North Asia – and through what are largely hidden and unfamiliar traditions. This area, ranging from the Caspian Sea to the Pacific Ocean, is a vast region often described as the "Cradle of Shamanism" and where the word "Shaman" originates from. His book features history, first-hand experiential reports, mythology, and folklore to explore the spirits, spirituality, and practices of true shamanism. In addition to history and analysis of North Asian shamanism, Shi also provides practical information for those seeking to implement practices that are appropriate to non-initiates and outsiders to the culture. #morbidanatomy #morbidacademy https://www.instagram.com/p/CeouYqbLL29/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Posted @withregram • @morbidanatomy Sunday, May 22, join us for “The Death Drive on Film” by Mary Wild (@psycstar) and “The Revolution will go Viral… on Sexting, the Digital & Contagion” by Dr Clint Burnham, the latest in our popular series, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, curated by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair (@rawsin) and @carl.abrahamsson. Click the link in our bio and select EVENTS or visit www.morbidanatomy.org/events to learn more and register. The Death Drive on Film, by Mary Wild In “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” (1920), Sigmund Freud defined the death drive as being in opposition to Eros (i.e., the affirmation of life through survival, propagation, productivity, and romance). This talk will focus the death drive on film, represented as self-sabotage, the unconscious wish to return to an inorganic state, and the urge to repeat painful past events. The proposition is that there is a cultural merit in coming to terms with the death drive, as it helps us to identify, comprehend and integrate harmful impulses in a functional way. Films discussed: Damage (1992), Weekend At Bernie’s (1989), Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019) “The Revolution will go Viral… on Sexting, the Digital & Contagion,” by Dr. Clint Burnham We need psychoanalysis to understand our conflicted anxieties brought to the fore by Covid, we needed Covid-19 to come along to help us comprehend the dyad of connectivity and isolation at work in the internet, and we continue to need the internet to understand such psychoanalytic ideas as the unconscious and “desire is the desire of the Other.” Drawing on the work of Freud, Lacan, Žižek, and Byung-Chul Han, and discussing sexting, anti-vaxxers, and “the subject supposed to LOL,” this talk will argue that our desires on the internet, our anxieties about vaccines and masks, and the way things go viral, can only be understood with the help of psychoanalysis, and, that these cultural phenomena can in turn help advance the theory and practice, the very relevance, of psychoanalysis today. Video: It Follows, 2015 #morbidanatomy #morbidacademy #psychartcult #psychoanalysis #film #filmhistory #carljung https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdl1Iq-LnTr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

See you Sunday! Posted @withregram • @morbidanatomy Sunday, April 24, join us for Uncanny Aspects of Oscar Wilde: “Dancing With Salome: Decadence & the Supernatural” by Nina Antonia and “Activating Wilde’s World View” by Robert Podgurski, part of our popular Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult series curated by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair (@rawsin_) and @carl.abrahamsson. Click the link in our bio and select EVENTS or visit www.morbidanatomy.org/events to learn more and register. “Dancing With Salome: Decadence & the Supernatural” by Nina Antonia @officialninaantonia is the author of a trinity of critically acclaimed books exploring the uncanny forces surrounding Oscar Wilde and his coterie. The majority of contemporary mainstream studies of the 1890’s excise the unseen, magical aspects that would have informed the art of Wilde and his peers, including W.B Yeats and Arthur Machen, who were both members of The Golden Dawn. Nina will be examining the aspects of enchantment that infused the Decadent movement as well as the perils of seeking wisdom outside of earthly boundaries. “Activating Wilde’s World View” by Robert Podgurski In this talk, Robert Podgurski will be addressing the ways in which Oscar Wilde’s liberated worldview may be read, not just textually, but as magical action. In particular, Chuang Tzu’s non-doing as Wilde understood it, presents a puzzle for the engaging reader, but one that is first and foremost intended to be playful. This talk is a supplement to Podgurski’s essay “Oscar Wilde’s Active Inaction and Composing the Individual” that will be included in the upcoming issue of The Fenris Wolf. For those new to the thought of Wilde and his world, this presentation is intended to raise some awareness of the interpretive act as it relates to the contemplative. Ultimately, any attempt to translate the complexities of Wilde’s understanding of freedom is to challenge the procedures and basis of western learning itself. Image: Ivan Albright, Picture of Dorian Gray, 1943–44 #morbidanatomy #morbidacademy #oscarwilde #psychoanalysis #art #film #occult #wilde #doriangray ##pictureofdoriangray #ivanalbright https://www.instagram.com/p/Ccnqsq2taFc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

See you there! Posted @withregram • @morbidanatomy Sunday, April 24, join us for Uncanny Aspects of Oscar Wilde: “Dancing With Salome: Decadence & the Supernatural” by Nina Antonia and “Activating Wilde’s World View” by Robert Podgurski, part of our popular Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult series curated by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair (@rawsin_) and @carl.abrahamsson. Click the link in our bio and select EVENTS or visit www.morbidanatomy.org/events to learn more and register. “Dancing With Salome: Decadence & the Supernatural” by Nina Antonia @officialninaantonia is the author of a trinity of critically acclaimed books exploring the uncanny forces surrounding Oscar Wilde and his coterie. The majority of contemporary mainstream studies of the 1890’s excise the unseen, magical aspects that would have informed the art of Wilde and his peers, including W.B Yeats and Arthur Machen, who were both members of The Golden Dawn. Nina will be examining the aspects of enchantment that infused the Decadent movement as well as the perils of seeking wisdom outside of earthly boundaries. “Activating Wilde’s World View” by Robert Podgurski In this talk, Robert Podgurski will be addressing the ways in which Oscar Wilde’s liberated worldview may be read, not just textually, but as magical action. In particular, Chuang Tzu’s non-doing as Wilde understood it, presents a puzzle for the engaging reader, but one that is first and foremost intended to be playful. This talk is a supplement to Podgurski’s essay “Oscar Wilde’s Active Inaction and Composing the Individual” that will be included in the upcoming issue of The Fenris Wolf. For those new to the thought of Wilde and his world, this presentation is intended to raise some awareness of the interpretive act as it relates to the contemplative. Ultimately, any attempt to translate the complexities of Wilde’s understanding of freedom is to challenge the procedures and basis of western learning itself. Image: Aubrey Beardsley, Messalina and her Companion, 1895 #morbidanatomy #morbidacademy #oscarwilde #psychoanalysis #art #film #occult https://www.instagram.com/p/CcDB6wfrflG/?utm_medium=tumblr

TODAY! 2PM NYC/ 7PM UK/ 20 CEST Posted @withregram • @morbidanatomy THIS SUNDAY! March 27, join us for The Compleat Story: How Anton LaVey Created The Compleat Witch, by Peggy Nadramia: Part of the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult Series, Live on Zoom. Click the link in our bio and select EVENTS or visit www.morbidanatomy.org/events to learn more and register. Peggy Nadramia, High Priestess of the Church of Satan, spent several years reviewing archival records to reconstruct Anton LaVey’s plans and process in writing this, his most personal book. She will relate that story as well as the details of LaVey’s exhausting promotional tour and how the book fared in the years that followed. The Compleat Witch, or What to do When Virtue Fails, was first published in 1971, and then reissued in 1989 by Feral House as The Satanic Witch. The Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult series of events, curated by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair (@rawsin_) and @carl.abrahamsson, is dedicated to exploring the intersections and integration of psychoanalytic theory, the creative arts, occult practices, and folk magic traditions. By inviting psychoanalysts, philosophers, artists, writers, and occult practitioners from a variety of theoretical orientations and worldviews to discuss their work, personal experiences, and areas of research interest with one another, dialogue is opened up between practitioners in fields of study that traditionally rarely engage with one another though often operate in similar and complementary ways. Peggy Nadramia was born and raised in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City. She attended Catholic school as a child and received her degrees from the State University of New York, Fordham University and New York University. In 1985, she founded Grue Magazine, a small press journal of horror fiction, which received the World Fantasy Award in 1990. In 2002 she became the High Priestess of the Church of Satan. She is currently working on an extensive archive project for the Church and developing articles on the organization’s history and influence. #morbidanatomy #morbidacademy #psychoanalysis #occult #satanism #churchofsatan #antonlavey #jaynemansfield #californiainfernal https://www.instagram.com/p/CbmOemKNHvU/?utm_medium=tumblr

Posted @withregram • @morbidanatomy LAST CALL for tomorrow’s event! This Sunday, January 23, join us for The Psychic Violence of Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski's Apartment Trilogy: Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby and The Tenant: Part of Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult. Click the link in our bio and select EVENTS, or visit www.morbidanatomy.org/events, to learn more and register. The Psychic Violence of Alfred Hitchcock: Cutting in Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds 30-minute presentation by Dr. Todd McGowan This talk will look at Hitchcock’s three late masterpieces—Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds—in terms of how they implicate the spectator in the violence that they depict. Through an inventive use of editing, Hitchcock places the spectator in the position of the figure of violence and forces spectators to reckon with their own psychic investment in this violence. Roman Polanski's Apartment Trilogy: Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby and The Tenant 30-minute presentation by Mary Wild (@psycstar). In Repulsion (1965), Rosemary's Baby (1968), and The Tenant (1976), Roman Polanski portrays fragmented psyches in claustrophobic spaces. What we encounter is an iconic triptych of psychological horror, with fear objects shifting from sexual intercourse, to pregnancy, and the blurring of gender identities. This talk will focus on psychoanalytically interpreting Polanski's genre-defining 'apartment trilogy', unpacking the uncanny dimension of the home, and showing its influence on Darren Aronofsky's modern classic Black Swan (2010). The Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult series of events, curated by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair (@rawsin_) and @carl.abrahamsson, is dedicated to exploring the intersections and integration of psychoanalytic theory, the creative arts, occult practices, and folk magic traditions. #morbidanatomy #morbidacademy #alfredhitcock #hitchcock #romanpolanksi #polanski #psychoanalysis #film https://www.instagram.com/p/CZB_n5DhBhy/?utm_medium=tumblr

See you there! Posted @withregram • @morbidanatomy Sunday, January 23, join us for The Psychic Violence of Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski's Apartment Trilogy: Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby and The Tenant: Part of Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult. Click the link in our bio and select EVENTS, or visit www.morbidanatomy.org/events, to learn more and register. The Psychic Violence of Alfred Hitchcock: Cutting in Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds 30-minute presentation by Dr. Todd McGowan This talk will look at Hitchcock’s three late masterpieces—Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds—in terms of how they implicate the spectator in the violence that they depict. Through an inventive use of editing, Hitchcock places the spectator in the position of the figure of violence and forces spectators to reckon with their own psychic investment in this violence. Roman Polanski's Apartment Trilogy: Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby and The Tenant 30-minute presentation by Mary Wild (@psycstar). In Repulsion (1965), Rosemary's Baby (1968), and The Tenant (1976), Roman Polanski portrays fragmented psyches in claustrophobic spaces. What we encounter is an iconic triptych of psychological horror, with fear objects shifting from sexual intercourse, to pregnancy, and the blurring of gender identities. This talk will focus on psychoanalytically interpreting Polanski's genre-defining 'apartment trilogy', unpacking the uncanny dimension of the home, and showing its influence on Darren Aronofsky's modern classic Black Swan (2010). The Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult series of events, curated by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair (@rawsin_) and @carl.abrahamsson, is dedicated to exploring the intersections and integration of psychoanalytic theory, the creative arts, occult practices, and folk magic traditions. #morbidanatomy #morbidacademy #alfredhitcock #hitchcock #romanpolanksi #polanski #psychoanalysis #film https://www.instagram.com/p/CYmpcL-htiy/?utm_medium=tumblr