Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

RU396: JOSEPH & LYNNE SCALIA ON CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS- ENVIRONMENTALISM, PSYCHOANALYSIS & EDUCATION

Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

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RU396: JOSEPH & LYNNE SCALIA ON CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: ENVIRONMENTALISM, PSYCHOANALYSIS & EDUCATION https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru396-joseph-and-lynne-scalia-on

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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). https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Consciousness-Beyond-Impasses-in-Environmentalism-Psychoanalysis-and-Education/ScaliaIII-Scalia/p/book/9781032864143

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

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