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Critical Theory September 27, 2022

The Labour of Enjoyment

Towards a Critique of Libidinal Economy

Samo Tomšič

Hosted by Reuben Niewenhuis
Enjoyment appears as purely private matter, but this is by far not the case. Ever since Aristotle the philosophical social critique is tormented by the question, whether the libidinal tendencies …

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Interviews with psychoanalysts about their new books.

The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones September 27, 2022

The Future of Brainwashing

A Discussion with Daniel Pick

Daniel Pick

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
In this podcast Owen Bennett-Jones and psychoanalyst Daniel Pick discuss brainwashing, thought control and group think. In the case of totalitarian political systems, do dissidents prove that brainwashing cannot be …
Psychoanalysis September 19, 2022

Psychoanalysis Under Occupation

Practicing Resistance in Palestine

Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi

Hosted by J. J. Mull
On this episode, J.J. Mull interviews co-authors Lara and Stephen Sheehi about their book, Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2021). As they discuss in the interview, the …
Psychoanalysis September 14, 2022

Psychoanalysis as a Subversive Phenomenon

Social Change, Virtue Ethics, and Analytic Theory

Amber M. Trotter

Hosted by Sebastian Thrul
“Perhaps psychoanalysis survives because it obstinately carries a torch of wild freedom and reverence for the unknowable in a world of rational epistemology and increasingly rigid sociopolitical control. Psychoanalysis does …
Writ Large September 6, 2022

On Sigmund Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents"

A Discussion with Elizabeth Lunbeck

Elizabeth Lunbeck

Hosted by Zachary Davis
In 1930, Sigmund Freud wrote Civilization and its Discontents and laid out his theory of civilization: civilization’s a problem, and it makes us unhappy. Freud felt humans were aggressive creatures …
Psychoanalysis August 29, 2022

Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Eastern Orthodox Christian Anthropology in Dialogue

Carl Waitz and Theresa Clement Tisdale

Hosted by Roy Barsness
Carl Waitz and Theresa Clement Tisdale offer to us a complex and scholarly text in their new book: Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Eastern Orthodox Christian Anthropology in Dialogue (Routledge, 2021). Psychoanalyst Marilyn …
Psychoanalysis August 22, 2022

Disorganisation & Sex

Jamieson Webster

Hosted by Cassandra Seltman
The first collection of essays from the author of the Life and Death of Psychoanalysis, Stay, Illusion! with Simon Critchley and Conversion Disorder, Disorganisation & Sex (Divided Publishing, 2022) is …
Psychoanalysis August 15, 2022

Circumcision on the Couch

The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery

Jordan Osserman

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
It is not terribly controversial to say that castration fear is one of the key conceptual engines driving the psychoanalytic project overall. Whether one thinks of it manifesting as a …
Psychoanalysis August 12, 2022

The Hidden Spring

A Journey to the Source of Consciousness

Mark Solms

Hosted by Philip Lance
If you have ever been skeptical about whether neuroscience has anything to teach psychoanalysis, or vice-versa, you will be stimulated by this book which engages the two disciplines in a …
Psychology August 11, 2022

Hatred of Sex

Oliver Davis and Tim Dean

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
How well do we understand our relationship to sex? According to Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, authors of the new book Hatred of Sex (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), we …
High Theory July 22, 2022

Social Psychoanalysis

A Discussion with Ankhi Mukherjee

Ankhi Mukherjee

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Ankhi Mukherjee talks about that looks at the subject of psychoanalysis as a product of social and cultural processes, and thereby reorients concepts of parental and familial bonds, trauma, coping …
Psychoanalysis July 11, 2022

Transgender Children

From Controversy to Dialogue

Jordan Osserman and Hannah Wallerstein

Hosted by Sebastian Thrul
How do we go forward in our psychoanalytic understanding of transgender children? This highly contested issue is at the core of an interesting edition of the journal The Psychoanalytic Study …
Psychoanalysis July 6, 2022

The Work of Whiteness

A Psychoanalytic Perspective

Helen Morgan

Hosted by Philip Lance
'Whiteness' is a politically constructed category which needs to be understood and dismantled because the system of racism so embedded within our society harms us all. It has profound implications …
Critical Theory May 12, 2022

The Politics of Immunity

Security and the Policing of Bodies

Mark Neocleous

Hosted by Catriona Gold
Our contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity. The immunity of bodies and the body politic; personal immunity and herd immunity; how to immunize the social system against breakdown. The …
High Theory April 25, 2022

Death Drive

A Discussion with Michelle Rada

Michelle Rada

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim talks with Michelle Rada about the death drive in psychoanalysis. Michelle references Todd McGowan’s Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis, University of Nebraska Press, 2013. She …
High Theory April 11, 2022

Fort / Da

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode, Kim talks with Saronik about the game “Fort / Da” — a game played by Sigmund Freud’s grandson in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, (which you can borrow …
Critical Theory April 8, 2022

At the Risk of Thinking

An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva

Alice Jardine

Hosted by August Baker
At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva (Bloomsbury, 2020) is the first biography of Julia Kristeva--one of the most celebrated intellectuals in the world. Alice Jardine …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones April 5, 2022

The Future of Delusions

A Discussion with Lisa Bortolotti

Lisa Bortolotti

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
The accusation “you’re deluded” is often used as something of a cheap shot intended to silence an opponent in debate. But what is the nature of a delusion and how …
Psychology April 1, 2022

The Zen of Therapy

Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

Mark Epstein

Hosted by August Baker
A remarkable exploration of the therapeutic relationship, Dr. Mark Epstein reflects on one year’s worth of therapy sessions with his patients to observe how his training in Western psychotherapy and …
Psychoanalysis March 11, 2022

Freud's Pandemics

Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis

Brett Kahr

Hosted by Sebastian Thrul
In his latest book Freud's Pandemics: Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis (Confer Books, 2021), Professor Brett Kahr has used his remarkable skills as experienced psychotherapist and rigorous historian to …