RU14: Rendering DR TODD MCGOWAN Unconscious - Psychoanalysis, philosophy, Hegel, Marx, Freud, Lacan

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 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: https://www.routledge.com/On-Psychoanalysis-and-Violence-Contemporary-Lacanian-Perspectives/Sinclair-Steinkoler/p/book/9781138346338 For more from Dr. Todd McGowan, please visit: https://vermont.academia.edu/ToddMcGowan Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more! If you enjoy what we’re doing, please join us at: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Rendering Unconscious Podcast can be found at: Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud & http://www.renderingunconscious.org/about/ Please visit www.drvanessasinclair.net/podcast/ for links to all of these sites. Rendering Unconscious – a book of psychoanalytic writing and poetry – is available from Trapart Books: https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 The track at the end of the episode is “Inside You is Outside Me (Remix)” by Hymnambulae from the album The Larval Stage of a Bookworm (Remixed) by Carl Abrahamsson: https://carlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com/album/the-larval-stage-of-a-bookworm-remixed Available from www.highbrow-lowlife.com Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair