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Podcast: Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture
Episode: RU19: Rendering DR WALTER DAVIS Unconscious: Psychoanalysis, Theater, Philosophy, Acting, Writing
Description: On this episode of Rendering Unconscious, I speak with Dr. Walter A. Davis, Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University. He is an actor and playwright, as well as psychoanalyst and theoretician. His many books include Art and Politics: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, Theatre. Pluto Press, London, 2007; Death's Dream Kingdom: The American Psyche Since 9-11. Pluto Press, London, 2006; Get the Guests: Psychoanalysis, Modern American Drama, and the Audience. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1993; and Inwardness and Existence: Subjectivity in/and Hegel, Heidegger, Marx, and Freud. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
He describes his current work in this way:
"My work, which is of a broadl...