Issue number 9 of The Fenris Wolf is now available on pre-order. This volume contains material from the conference Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult (London, 2016), with contributions from Gary Lachman, Vanessa Sinclair, Katelan Foisy, Sharron Kraus, Demetrius Lacroix, Graham Duff, Ken Henson, Peter Grey, Val Denham, Claire-Madeline Culkin, Steven Reisner, Katy Bohinc, Olga Cox Cameron, Ingo Lambrecht, Elliott Edge, Charlotte Rodgers, Alkistis Dimech, Fred Yee, Robert Ansell, Ray O Neill, Derek M Elmore, Julio Mendes Rodrigo, Eve Watson, and Carl Abrahamsson. Topics include Sigmund Freud and the Occult, Art as Alchemy, the art of John Balance, Cut-Ups as a magical and psychoanalytic tool, Maori shamanism within therapy, Animistic art, Dance as ritual, Androgynous aspects in Austin Osman Spare’s art, Salvador Dali’s meeting with Jacques Lacan, Rebis: the Double Being, David Bowie’s Non-Human Effect, similarities between ritual magic and psychoanalysis, and much more.
Trapart Books 2017, 248 pages, 148 x 210 mm, perfect bound. There is also a LIMITED, hard-bound edition (77 hand-numbered copies), and a DELUXE edition (hard-bound copies nos 1-23 including a signed print by Val Denham). You can order them all right HERE.
Contents:
Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson Editors’ Introduction: Looking back at the crossroads
Katelan Foisy Invocation: Homage to the spirits of the land/London
Sharron Kraus Art as Alchemy
Demetrius Lacroix The Seven Layers of the Vodou Soul
Graham Duff Sublime Fragments: The Art of John Balance
Ken Henson The American Occult Revival In My Work
Gary Lachman Was Freud Afraid of the Occult?
Peter Grey Fly the Light
Val Denham Proclaim Present Time Over
Katelan Foisy & Vanessa Sinclair The Cut In Creation
Claire-Madeline Culkin Beds, Bodies and Other Books of Common Prayer – A Reading of the Photography of Nan Goldin
Steven Reisner On the Dance of the Occult and Unconscious in Freud
Katy Bohinc The 12th House: Art and the Unconscious
Olga Cox Cameron When Shall We 3 Meet Again? Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult: A Clandestine Convergence
Ingo Lambrecht Wairua: Following shamanic contours in psychoanalytic therapy at a Māori Mental Health Service in New Zealand
Elliott Edge An Occult Reading of PAO! Imagining in the Dark with Our Vestigial Shamanism in a Shade, Shadow, Wide
Charlotte Rodgers Stripped to the Core: Animistic Art Action and Magickal Revelation
Alkistis Dimech Dynamics of the Occulted Body
Fred Yee Cut-Up As Egregore, Oracle and Flirtation Device
Robert Ansell Androgyny, Biology and Latent Memory in the Work of Austin Osman Spare
Ray O Neill Double, Double, Toil and Trouble: Psychoanalysis Burn and Surrealism Bubble
Derek M Elmore Dreams and the Neither-Neither
Julio Mendes Rodrigo Rebis, the Double Being
Eve Watson Bowie’s Non-Human Effect: Alien/Alienation in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) and The Hunger (1983)
Carl Abrahamsson Formulating the Desired: Some similarities between ritual magic and the psychoanalytic process
Front cover painting by Val Denham
Back cover painting by Ken Henson
This book is available on pre-order. Orders will be sent out late April 2017.
