Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists and other creatives & intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more.
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Professor Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of ) Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (2019), Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy (2017), Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016), Contemporary Film Directors: Spike Lee (2014), The Fictional Christopher Nolan (2013), Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis (2013), The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan (2007), and The Impossible David Lynch (2007).
His latest book Universality and Identity Politics is forthcoming from Columbia University Press, July 2020.
Dr. McGowan contributed a chapter “The sex in their violence: eroticizing biopower” to the anthology On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) edited by Vanessa Sinclair and Manya Steinkoler.
This episode is also available to view at YouTube:
Listen to our previous talks:
RU39: TODD MCGOWAN ON “SIGNIFICATION OF THE PHALLUS” FROM ‘READING LACAN’S ECRITS’
RU14: PROFESSOR TODD MCGOWAN ON PSYCHOANALYSIS & PHILOSOPHY
Link to Steven Reisner’s talk “Crazy Like a Fox” at The New School.
The art of Katelan Foisy
Our work together: Chaos of the Third Mind
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Portrait of Dr. Todd McGowan
Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair. Original artwork available from Trapart Unique Works at Etsy.
