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EARLY RELEASE - Intro to Jacques Lacan w/ Todd McGowan
🕑 Added 2022-07-02 00:48:01 +0000 UTCPATRONS ONLY: Professor Todd McGowan - cohost of Why Theory? - returns to the show to discuss the French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan. We talk about Lacan's "Back to Freud" idea, core Lacanian concepts and how to understand them, Lacan's dialectical approach within psychoanalytic theory, how Lacan relates to Marxism and the left, criticisms of Lacan, Breht's trip to France and Todd's advice (lol thanks Todd!), and much more!
Check out our two prior episodes with Todd below:
- Hegel and Dialectics: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/hegel
- Capitalism and Desire: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/capitalism-and-desire-in-dialogue-with-psychoanalysis
Comments
Shane Neal
Dude! So glad you get to go to France it's one of my favorite countries. I'm biased since I have my Master's in the language and did some studies over there. Anywho, don't be afraid to go off the beaten path in Paris. Somehow I stumbled across this paper guide I somehow got out of a book somewhere and had the chance to walk the historic Jewish neighborhoods in the back streets of Paris. Absolutely breathtaking, and there's a lot of art in general and anti-capitalist sentiment amongst much of the French working class which you might sort of pick up on while you're there.
Everett Woolsey
Love hearing you and Todd!
