Rendering Unconscious episode 371.
Rendering Unconscious welcomes Klara Naszkowska back to the podcast!
In this episode, culture and women’s historian, Klara Naszkowska, discusses her upcoming 14-week course on Early Women Psychoanalysts, co-taught with Mark Beitel. The course will cover 17 early women psychoanalysts, including Sabina Spielrein, Helena Deutsch, and Clara Happel. Klara encourages interested individuals to reach out for course details, payment plans, and scholarships. In this discussion, the importance of contextualizing psychoanalytic history with political, social, and cultural factors is emphasized. Klara also mentions her upcoming online event at the Freud Museum London and shares her ongoing book project on Clara Happel, highlighting her progressive views and the systemic discrimination she faced. The conversation also touches upon the systemic erasure of women in various disciplines historically and the need for women to support women and marginalized communities with a focus on empathy and collaboration.
Feel free to contact Klara Naszkowska directly at spielrein@spielreinassociation.org
Be sure to pick up her book Early Women Psychoanalysts. History, Biography, and Contemporary Relevance (Routledge, 2024).
FREE Online Talk - Klara Naszkowska joined by Ana Tomcic to discuss her latest book ‘Early Women Psychoanalysts,’ Freud Museum London on Wednesday, December 10th.
Register for Composing with Spielrein: Contemporary Applications of Sabina Spielrein’s Work, International Interdisciplinary Conference, September 5-6, 2026, online.
Special issue of “American Imago” devoted to Sabina Spielrein. Guest Editor: Klara Naszkowska.
Check out previous episodes:
RU288: KLARA NASZKOWSKA ON HER BOOK, EARLY WOMEN PSYCHOANALYSTS
Klara Naszkowska, PhD (she/her) is a cultural historian of women, research scholar, writer, and professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Montclair State University. Her work resurrects and critically examines the neglected history women pioneers of psychoanalysis, feminine sexuality, emigration, and memory. It has been recognized with the Fulbright Fellowship, the Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s Schlesinger Library Grant, and the Leo Baeck Institute’s Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellowship. Klara serves as the Founding Director of the International Association for Spielrein Studies and the Civic Engagement and Voting Rights Teacher Scholar sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
