RU75: Rendering Dr Todd McGowan Unconscious, Universality, Identity Politics, Culture, Film

Professor 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), The Impossible David Lynch (2007) and Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (2019). His latest book Universality and Identity Politics is forthcoming from Columbia University Press, July 2020: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/universality-and-identity-politics/9780231197700 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 Link to Steven Reisner's talk "Crazy Like a Fox" at The New School: http://dasunbehagen.org/steven-reisner-crazy-like-a-fox-evil-is-not-a-psychiatric-illness/ The art of Katelan Foisy: https://www.katelanfoisy.com Our work together: https://chaosofthethirdmind.com 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. http://www.renderingunconscious.org You can support the podcast 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: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (2019) is available from Trapart Books: https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 The track at the end of the episode is "Consuming Six" from the album "Sound 23" by Vanessa Sinclair + Douglas Lucas. Deluxe and standard edition CDs available from Highbrow Lowlife and Trapart Editions: https://store.trapart.net/details/00101 Photo of Dr. Todd McGowan