RU396: JOSEPH & LYNNE SCALIA ON CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: ENVIRONMENTALISM, PSYCHOANALYSIS & EDUCATION
Rendering Unconscious welcomes Joseph and Lynne Scalia! They are here to talk about their new book Critical Consciousness Beyond Impasses in Environmentalism, Psychoanalysis, and Education (Routledge, 2026).
Rendering Unconscious episode 396.
On this episode, Lynne and Joseph discuss their book Critical Consciousness Beyond Impasses in Environmentalism, Psychoanalysis, and Education. Lynne shares her experience as an educator, and Joseph as a psychoanalyst and environmentalist. They highlight the challenges in mainstream education and environmentalism, the potential of psychoanalysis, and the need for societal transformation. Lynne and Jospeh emphasize the importance of small pockets of resistance on a local level, and propose the Institute for a Democratic Psychoanalysis (IDP) as a platform for facilitating necessary discussions addressing the intersections of environmentalism, psychoanalysis, and education.
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Joseph Scalia III, PsyD, is a practicing psychoanalyst, and a social and environmental critic and activist based in Colorado, USA.
Lynne S. Scalia, EdD, is an educator from Montana. She has served as a teacher, school district superintendent, and a high school, middle school, and elementary principal, all in public schools. Her work is informed by psychoanalysis and institutional ethnography. Scalia’s focus is on rurality, critical pedagogy, leadership, and school reform.
Check out previous episodes with this guest:
RU115: DR JOSEPH SCALIA III ON WILDERNESS CONSERVATION
RU59: JOSEPH SCALIA, PSYCHOANALYST, ENVIRONMENTALIST & SOCIAL CRITIC
Join us Wednesday, May 20th, for a special LIVE Rendering Unconscious Podcast event on the Gradiva award winning collection Early Women Psychoanalysts with editor Dr. Klara Naszkowska and various contributors! Link to sign up for event in linktree.
We will meet at 18:00 Stockholm (12PM NYC/ 9AM San Francisco/ 5PM London/ 19:00 Beirut) for 2.5 hours. There will be time for audience Q&A/ discussion.
All paid subscribers Rendering Unconscious Podcast and at RU Center for Psychoanalysis will receive the zoom link to attend this event live and the recordings will be posted at both Substacks.
About the event:
Join us for an illuminating event that brings to life the overlooked women who helped shape psychoanalysis from its earliest days. The webinar introduces Early Women Psychoanalysts: History, Biography, and Contemporary Relevance, recipient of 2025 Gradiva® Award for Best Historical Edited Book.
@klaranaszkowska editor of the collection, will open the program with an overview of the volume, its chapters, and the themes that connect them, and will introduce the speakers. Presentations include Candice Dumas on Margarethe Hilferding, Ana Tomčić on Sabina Spielrein, Dóra Szabó on Erzsébet Farkas, and Håvard Friis Nilsen on Nic Waal. Together, these talks invite us to revisit psychoanalysis’ origins—and to recognize the pioneering thinkers whose contributions deserve far wider recognition.
Here’s a discount code from the publisher: 26EFLY2, valid till 30th September 2026, to be used on the Routledge website. @routledgebooks
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In this week’s WEEKLY at our Patreon, I meditate on death in appreciation of the work of Peter J Carroll and Gordon White. FREE post!
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”Death surely keeps us in line but if we’re blessed, we still have the agency to make that line distinctly our own, and it doesn’t necessarily need to be straight and narrow.”
#chaosmagic #occulture #peterjcarroll #gordonwhite #runesoup #vanessasinclair #carlabrahamsson
Rendering Unconscious welcomes Joseph and Lynne Scalia! They are here to talk about their new book Critical Consciousness Beyond Impasses in Environmentalism, Psychoanalysis, and Education (Routledge, 2026).
Rendering Unconscious episode 396.
On this episode, Lynne and Joseph discuss their book Critical Consciousness Beyond Impasses in Environmentalism, Psychoanalysis, and Education. Lynne shares her experience as an educator, and Joseph as a psychoanalyst and environmentalist. They highlight the challenges in mainstream education and environmentalism, the potential of psychoanalysis, and the need for societal transformation. Lynne and Jospeh emphasize the importance of small pockets of resistance on a local level, and propose the Institute for a Democratic Psychoanalysis (IDP) as a platform for facilitating necessary discussions addressing the intersections of environmentalism, psychoanalysis, and education.
Follow The Institute for a Democratic Psychoanalysis
Joseph Scalia III, PsyD, is a practicing psychoanalyst, and a social and environmental critic and activist based in Colorado, USA.
Lynne S. Scalia, EdD, is an educator from Montana. She has served as a teacher, school district superintendent, and a high school, middle school, and elementary principal, all in public schools. Her work is informed by psychoanalysis and institutional ethnography. Scalia’s focus is on rurality, critical pedagogy, leadership, and school reform.
Check out previous episodes with this guest:
RU115: DR JOSEPH SCALIA III ON WILDERNESS CONSERVATION
RU59: JOSEPH SCALIA, PSYCHOANALYST, ENVIRONMENTALIST & SOCIAL CRITIC
May 30th, 7pm (Central European Time). Let’s watch this great film together online! Afterwards I’m doing Q & A, so feel free to ask me anything! Open to all paid subscribers of the Fenris Wolf Substack – which is also the home for a lot of related material as well as other films! See you there & then!
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Just posted an essay about the possible pitfalls of magical entanglement:
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”Some proponents of outwardly directed magic argue that it can be used ethically under specific circumstances, particularly when the goal is to protect or uplift others. For instance, protection spells, blessings, or rituals aimed at fostering ”social justice” can be seen as positive applications of magical influence. In such cases, the intent is not to dominate or control, but to create a safer or more equitable environment. But even in these instances, practitioners must carefully consider the consequences of their actions. Are they truly addressing the root of the issue, or simply imposing their will on a situation they may not fully understand? Basically: How can we be so sure that we actually know what we want? And especially if the focus is not on ourselves but on an abstracted third party who might be even less in touch with him/her/itself? Are you willing to get ”karmically” entangled in the web of wyrd/weird of someone or something else?”
#occulture #thefenriswolf #carlabrahamsson
We've officially surpassed 2,000 posts at our Patreon! Endless amounts of magic and creativity for you to peruse. Join in anytime and click on the Magic Monday tag to flip through 6 years of weekly Magic Monday posts where we talk about how we weave magic and artwork together in our everyday lives. Plus Carls films are there, and there are works in progress, philosophical musings, inspiring quotes, photos, music, and so much more! Plus everyone at our Patreon is welcome to join our exclusive Patreon community Discord server. Join us and join in the fun! patreon.com/vanessa23carl (link in linktree in bio)
In today’s MAGIC MONDAY post at our Patreon, Vanessa writes about recent outings and rune work in the deep forests of Småland:
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”I had synchronistically brought this postcard of Oden with me, having quickly grabbed a small stack of images from a pile on my cut-up table at home. Oden just happened to be there! Perfect. I pulled some cut-ups from a pouch I use as my portable cut-up station and glued them into my magical book. Then I read them out loud to Carl, Kvilleken, and the ether. A wonderful thing about cut-ups is after you paste them down, if you read them aloud, they work like spells. No matter what they say, it is a magical working in itself, just the act of cutting up in this way, and when you read the words and phrases aloud, it sends your intention out into the universe as well as implanting it into your own unconscious, where it gets to work at making your magic happen, just like a sigil.”
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Our weekly Magic Monday post is up at Patreon! We write about our ongoing day to day magical and creative practices every week! Join us there and come chat with us at Discord. This we we talk bibliomancy, pyrography, cut-ups, hanging with Oden, and walks in nature. patreon.com/vanessa23carl
TIME FOR ANOTHER GREAT CLASS… ”Expand Your Art or Writing Practice Using the Cut-up Technique of David Bowie and William Burroughs”, with Dr. Vanessa Sinclair & Author Carl Abrahamsson, Begins May 10!
Sign up for the class here:
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Four Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom, Sundays, May 10 - May 31, 2026, 1:00 - 2:30pm ET (NYC Time)
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time.
Dada instigator Tristan Tzara created “accidental poems” by cutting words from a newspaper, putting them into a hat, and pulling them out one by one to create poetry by chance. At the Beat Hotel in Paris, creative partners William Burroughs and Brion Gysin took this method and elaborated upon it, cutting up not only words but images, sounds, and film. David Bowie collided with William Burroughs and integrated the cut-up method into his way of writing song lyrics. A master of cutting up identity, Bowie also played with the performative aspects of persona, gender, and sexuality. In this class, Dr. Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson will review the ways various artists have worked with cut-up techniques over the past century, while also sharing the ways they’ve integrated the cut-up method into their own creative, writing, and magical practices. The wonderful thing about cut-ups is that anyone can do them. The cut-up may be applied to any medium: word, image, sound, video, film, fashion, and performance art – even identity – may be cut up and rearranged to create something new and unexpected.
Whether you are new to the realms of art, writing, and magic or are a seasoned practitioner, this course will introduce you to fundamental ways of working with cut-up techniques to manifest your desire through the creation of unique artworks. Participants will be encouraged to create and share their own art or writing (if desired, not required). There will be plenty of time for discussion and questions.
