Rendering Unconscious episode 277.

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Professor Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Universality and Identity Politics (2020), 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).

He’s here to discuss his new book The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of Hatred (Bloomsbury, 2022).

Listen to his podcast Why Theory? with Ryan Engley.

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.

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Check out our previous discussions:

RU178: PROFESSOR TODD MCGOWAN ON BREAKING BAD, HITCHCOCK, PSYCHOANALYSIS, FILM, POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY

RU75: PROFESSOR TODD MCGOWAN ON UNIVERSALITY, IDENTITY POLITICS, CULTURE, FILM

RU39: TODD MCGOWAN ON “SIGNIFICATION OF THE PHALLUS” FROM ‘READING LACAN’S ECRITS’

RU14: PROFESSOR TODD MCGOWAN ON PSYCHOANALYSIS & PHILOSOPHY

Also mentioned in this episode:

RU106: PROFESSOR SHELDON GEORGE ON PSYCHOANALYSIS, TRAUMA & RACE

RU274: M.E. O’BRIEN ON FAMILY ABOLITION: CAPITALISM & THE COMMUNIZING OF CARE

RU218: DARIAN LEADER ON JOUISSANCE: SEXUALITY, SUFFERING & SATISFACTION

Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works with people internationally. 

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She is the author of The Pathways of the Heart (Trapart Books, 2021), Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation (Routledge, 2021) and Switching Mirrors (Trapart Books, 2016).

And is the editor of  Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (Routledge, 2023), Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019), Outsider Inpatient: Reflections on Art as Therapy (Trapart Books, 2021) with Dr. Elisabeth Punzi, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) co-edited with Dr. Manya Steinkoler, and The Fenris Wolf, vol 9 (Trapart Books, 2017) and The Fenris Wolf vol 11 (Trapart Books, 2022) co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson.

Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. Check out Swedish independent record label Highbrow Lowlife. Enjoy!

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The song at the end of the episode is “Surreal and dreamlike” from the album “All poets are p0rn0graphers” by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy. Available at Pete Murphy’s Bandcamp Page.

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