Voices From ROOM: A Podcast For Analytic Action podcast

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This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Mary B. McRae, who describes her experience growing up in a segregated southern Black community, migrating to NYC as a teen, and her revolutionary days in groups like the Black Panther Party. Highlighting the importance affirmative action programs had for her generation, she reminisces about the doors that were open and closed to her as she made her way from being a young single mother to becoming a research psychologist, tenured professor, and current president of William Alanson White Institute. Read Mary's work in ROOM: "As a child, I played in this graveyard with other children. The pain and joy of those memories, owning our first house before losing it and migrating to New York. Not remembering difficult times or suffering is like dementia, a fear of repetition. I am the baby girl, the sixth of seven children, a sharecropper’s daughter." - Mary B. McRae, Notes from a Sharecropper's Daughter, ROOM 10.24…

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Wrestling Faith with Katie Burner 38:01

8 weeks ago38:01

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This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Katie Burner, a therapist raised inside the Latter-day Saints faith. Burner unpacks how her Mormon upbringing and experience at institutions like Brigham Young University affect her relationships with her clients. Seeing both Mormon and non-Mormon patients, Burner navigates transference and countertransference inside her practice alongside a shifting relationship to the religion itself.…

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Minding the Gap in Democracy and Psychoanalysis with Jill Gentile 52:31

14 weeks ago52:31

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This week, Isaac and Aneta speak with Jill Gentile about how the liberatory and inclusive projects of democracy and psychoanalysis reflect and enable patriarchy. Suggesting that castration fantasy was psychoanalysis’s original conspiracy theory, Gentile draws our attention to the non-binary, non-unitary vaginal space as a repressed signifier of the multiplicity of otherness. Channeling Winnicott, she suggests that the birthing fantasies, misogyny, and the overt exclusion of others during Trump 1.0, which has led to the societal breakdown that Trump 2.0 portends, may provide the opportunity for collective renewal. "It is not accidental that the Trump era is characterized by a preoccupation with borders, immigrants, walls, reproductive surveillance, and a general fear of feminine space." - Jill Gentile, "Vaginal Veritas," ROOM 6.19…

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Taking Considered Action with Robert Frey 27:28

19 weeks ago27:28

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This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Dr. Robert Frey about his work in international medicine and his direct action against the use of nuclear equipment to mine for oil in Western Colorado. Frey details how humor, identity, global politics, and environmental emergency may all congeal at moments of protest. Moreover, Frey emphasizes the critical interconnectedness that can be created by both political engagement and medical care when individual feeling is galvanized into collective action.…

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Facing Complicity with Michael Krass 36:54

21 weeks ago36:54

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This week, hosts Aneta Stojnić and Isaac Slone speak with Michael Krass, a psychoanalyst and the president of the Contemporary Freudian Society. Krass shows how the disavowal of unconscious racism by liberal white Americans has contributed to the spread of openly racist attitudes and actions on the right. Following the presidential election results, many are juggling an external political reality with an internal pain, revulsion, or withdrawal; all reactions which Krass suggests show a failure at having truly known this nation, this climate, and ourselves.…

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How Activism Speaks with Jyoti Rao 46:53

23 weeks ago46:53

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This week, hosts Aneta Stojnić and Isaac Slone speak with psychoanalyst Jyoti Rao on her view of social justice activism as an interpretation of society itself. Rao unpacks how recent student activism across the US has disrupted the status quo just as clinical analysis aims to disrupt and mobilize the individual psyche. In this space of this discomfort, Rao suggests we may be invited to remember our humanity in the gut-wrenching love felt for civilians caught in the conditions of war. Read Jyoti's work in ROOM: "The humanitarian catastrophe underway calls for a redoubling of our commitment to care about the lives and well-being of others, a central aspect of psychoanalytic ethics that does not end at the consulting-room door." — Jyoti Rao, "Student Activism as Interpretation" ROOM 6.24…

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Architecture of Remembrance with Tom Hennes 41:58

25 weeks ago41:58

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This week, hosts Aneta Stojnić and Isaac Slone speak with Tom Hennes, founder of Thinc Design. Hennes discusses his apprehension around the phrase "Never Forget" and its possible weaponization against accurate social and political memory. Through theory, fieldwork, and history, Hennes demonstrates how his past design work in the 9/11 Memorial Museum and his current work reshaping Riker's Island are impacted by a need for dialogue to create truly restorative justice. Read Tom's work in ROOM: "The problem with traumatic loss is that it cannot be forgotten. Cannot even easily be placed in time so that it will cease to be an ever-present simulacrum of reality. I am coming to the idea that Never Forget is directed in a constraining way toward those inside these events." — Tom Hennes, "We Say 'Never Forget'" ROOM 6.24…

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Acting when Politicians Fail Us with Dean Hammer 38:01

37 weeks ago38:01

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This week, we had the pleasure of talking with Dr. Dean Hammer, a consummate Activist-Practitioner who refutes silence in the face of malignant normality. Hammer explains the pull of quiet compliance, especially during times of atrocity. We spoke with him about where his work in the classroom, the protest, and the clinical setting overlap. Dr. Hammer seeks a psychoanalytically informed community that invests in peace even as it operates with an awareness of the walls imposed by the justice system, the academy, and the flag under which it operates. We welcome you to read his essay " Reflections on Ploughshares Eight ," published in ROOM 10.23. Thank you for listening, Your hosts, Isaac Slone and Aneta Stojnić Voices From ROOM will return in September. While we're away, we welcome you to listen to past episodes. We appreciate your ratings and reviews and can't wait to share a new season with you this fall.…

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Hearing Untold Stories with Alberto Minujin 36:39

41 weeks ago36:39

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In our conversation with Alberto Minujin, we learn about his work enfranchising the agency and identity of Latinx women in Queens. Minujin unpacks the mutual excitement and hesitancy of the participants' speech. These two emotions highlight the need for these women to acquire a caring, available, and action-taking audience for their words. Thank you for listening. Your hosts, Isaac Slone and Aneta Stojnić…

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Violence as Societal Disorder with Dr. Bandy X. Lee 40:20

44 weeks ago40:20

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This week we speak with Dr. Bandy X. Lee , editor of the best selling book "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" and president of the World Mental Health Coalition , about her life-long work studying, predicting, and preventing violence. As a clinician and academic Dr Lee felt called to action when, after the 2016 election, the US society was faced with what she presciently feared might devolve into violence. Expanding on the essays she published in ROOM during that time, Dr. Lee describes the continued personal and professional repercussions she has endured for speaking out. She implores us to pay attention to the signs of continuing danger. Thank you for listening, Your hosts, Isaac Slone and Aneta Stojnić…

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Forgetting and the Demise of Democracy with Jill Salberg 32:44

45 weeks ago32:44

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This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Dr. Jill Salberg about the relationship between memory and fascism in American history. Dr. Salberg connects the memory loss caused by trauma in an individual with the political amnesia that allows fascism to occur (and recur) in a nation. Unpacking the dangerous complicity of passivity, Dr. Salberg shows us how creating and maintaining memory is active work and a political duty. Jill Salberg's essay is timely, and in conversation with many other voices we’ve published. She calls awareness to the political amnesia we are all susceptible to and centers the act of witnessing as critical to analytic action. Talking with her on this episode, we learned more about her motivations for taking on this dangerous forgetfulness and how it intersects with her writing and work.…

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Cultural Reverberations of Psychoanalysis with Fang Duan 39:18

50 weeks ago39:18

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This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Dr. Fang Duan as she dissects the differing applications of psychoanalysis in the Chinese and English-speaking worlds. Fang details her own journey from China to Canada, discussing the gulf between the concept of the individual in the East and West. Across cultures, Duan unveils the agency that psychoanalysis and therapy can bestow on the individual story as it resonates with public reception. "Many factors contributed to this nearly perfect resolution of a celebrity family saga, leaving a deeply satisfying sense of catharsis and edification. What is interesting for my psychoanalytic thinking is the decisive role psychotherapy played in the unfolding of the story." — "A Celebrity Family Saga," Fang Duan, ROOM 2.22…

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How Psychoanalysis Shaped my Poetry with Nancy Kuhl 37:31

1 year ago37:31

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This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with poet Nancy Kuhl as she discusses the relationship between her practices in language and her work with psychoanalysis. Kuhl details how the tangle of metaphor in poetry can supply rich ground for examining the conscious and unconscious at work in our minds. In her latest book, On Hysteria , Kuhl responds to Freud's 1858 Studies on Hysteria and contends with the space where thought becomes physical. "My view of creativity was shifted completely [by psychoanalysis]. I came to think so differently about making meaning than I had before. And it’s not as if I hadn’t thought about language and metaphor and making meaning. I thought I had already given that a lot of consideration. But the [psychoanalytic] perspective is different enough and includes enough of the same kinds of interests [like] idiom, specificity of expression and speech, and voice … [these things] came alive in new ways." — Nancy Kuhl Read Nancy Kuhl's Poem, "The Talking Cure" in ROOM 6.22.…

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On the Streets with Zak Mucha 38:47

1 year ago38:47

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This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Zak Mucha about his experience working as a supervisor with an Assertive Community Treatment Program (ACT), providing 24/7 care to patients struggling with psychosis, and his own journey discovering psychoanalysis. Mucha unveils how psychoanalysis and poetry share so much commonality in their practices, approaches to understanding humanity, and statuses as unfinishable projects that extend beyond the individual life. "Analytic work demands we incorporate the uncertainty of the world, the unknowable, into our existence. The horrific what ifs, what nexts, and shoulds and the dread of how do they see me exist, marking the unbearable anxieties left wordlessly outside of our narratives while driving our behavior."— Zak Mucha, "Reassembling Fragments," ROOM 2.20…

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Minding What Matters with Betty Teng 37:31

1 year ago37:31