Today’s discussion is with Professor Todd McGowan, about his chapter on “The Signification of the Phallus” in Reading Lacan’s Ecrits: From ‘Signification of the Phallus’ to ‘Metaphor of the Subject’ (Routledge, 2019) edited by Stijn Vanheule, Derek Hook and Calum Neil.
Dr. Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of 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). Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (2019) is forthcoming from Columbia University Press.
Dr. McGowan also contributed a chapter “The sex in their violence: eroticizing biopower” to the anthology On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2018) edited by Vanessa Sinclair and Manya Steinkoler.
For more please visit: vermont.academia.edu/ToddMcGowan
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To hear Adrian Price’s discussion of “An Artificial Tongue with a Natural Curl” – On Lacan’s Last Major Written Piece ‘Joyce le Symptôme’ visit: www.dasunbehagen.org
Alenka Zupancic’s book “The Odd One In: on Comedy“ is mentioned in this talk, as is Jennifer Friedlander’s “Feminine Look: Sexuation, Spectatorship, Subversion,” the work of Judith Butler and Joan Copjec.
Be sure to also listen to RU14: PROFESSOR TODD MCGOWAN ON PSYCHOANALYSIS & PHILOSOPHY
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