Four Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Sundays, November 1 - 22, 2026
1:00 - 3:00 pm ET (NYC Time)
$125 Paid Patreon Members / $150 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: All classes will also be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
Join Dr. Vanessa Sinclair for a deep dive into the films one of the most beloved and iconic directors of our time, Tim Burton. With his fantastic stories, unforgettable characters, and whimsical sets, Burton’s style is immediately recognizable. For decades he has given voice to the weirdos and outcasts, the kids who never quite fit in. As Winona Ryder recently said when Burton was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, “[Burton] made being a weird girl not just okay, but something to celebrate and even kind of cool.”
Dr. Sinclair will take course participants on a journey through the breadth and depth of Burton’s oeuvre, from early classics like Edward Scissorhands (1990), Batman Returns (1992), and The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) to recent hits Beetlejuice (2024) and Wednesday (2022–present). A true artist and auteur, Burton has remarked that in a way filmmaking has been his own kind of personal therapy. Dr. Sinclair will examine the development of Burton’s films, including how certain themes reflect this idiosyncratic director’s life and personality.
Vanessa Sinclair, PsyD is a psychoanalyst in private practice, who works remotely online with people all over the world. Dr. Sinclair is the founder and director of Rendering Unconscious Center for Psychoanalysis and hosts the award-winning Rendering Unconscious podcast. She is the author of Things Happen (2024) and Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation (2021), and editor of The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond (2025) with Elisabeth Punzi and Myriam Sauer. https://linktr.ee/renderingunconscious
Four Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Sundays, November 1 - 22, 2026
1:00 - 3:00 pm ET (NYC Time)
$125 Paid Patreon Members / $150 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: All classes will also be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
Join Dr. Vanessa Sinclair for a deep dive into the films one of the most beloved and iconic directors of our time, Tim Burton. With his fantastic stories, unforgettable characters, and whimsical sets, Burton’s style is immediately recognizable. For decades he has given voice to the weirdos and outcasts, the kids who never quite fit in. As Winona Ryder recently said when Burton was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, “[Burton] made being a weird girl not just okay, but something to celebrate and even kind of cool.”
Dr. Sinclair will take course participants on a journey through the breadth and depth of Burton’s oeuvre, from early classics like Edward Scissorhands (1990), Batman Returns (1992), and The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) to recent hits Beetlejuice (2024) and Wednesday (2022–present). A true artist and auteur, Burton has remarked that in a way filmmaking has been his own kind of personal therapy. Dr. Sinclair will examine the development of Burton’s films, including how certain themes reflect this idiosyncratic director’s life and personality.
Vanessa Sinclair, PsyD is a psychoanalyst in private practice, who works remotely online with people all over the world. Dr. Sinclair is the founder and director of Rendering Unconscious Center for Psychoanalysis and hosts the award-winning Rendering Unconscious podcast. She is the author of Things Happen (2024) and Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation (2021), and editor of The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond (2025) with Elisabeth Punzi and Myriam Sauer. https://linktr.ee/renderingunconscious
