Learning About Lacan w: Todd McGowan

Todd McGowan returns to the show, this time to discuss the French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan. Breht and Todd explore many of his core concepts, his relation to Freud and Freud’s theory, his politics, his contributions to psychology, how his insights can useful for us today, and so much more.
Check out Todd's podcast “Why Theory?” on your preferred podcast app!
Previous episdoes with Todd:
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[@TheDangerousMaybe]

What a fantastic discussion! I always love hearing Todd go back to the basics of Lacanian theory.

[@arunmaheshwari1040]

This is wonderful.

[@user-rg4lc5ib6p]

thankyou thankyou thankyou!

[@nah8845]

All three episodes with Todd are AMAZING. Please have him back!

[@mouthbreather69]

GREAT interview! Such excellent questions ❤

[@funkrobert99]

Brilliant discussion

[@arjunkumar2971]

this is a very enriching podcaste, thank you for doing it

[@jasonhuntchicago]

The guy in my profile pic is my relative Rudolph Loewenstein, who was Lacan’s analyst for 6 years. Both Lacan and Loewenstein were intelligence agency assets.

[@reubencanningfinkel5922]

lol. intelligence for what, exactly? who's intelligence?

[@usagi-z]

Wasn't Loewenstein an Ego psychologist, one of these which Lacan opposed?

[@RYBATUGA]

1:08:50

[@usagi-z]

Does that mean that every intervention of the Real causes us to scramble and try to 'suture' the Symbolic order, for example by inventing entire theory of complex numbers? Is there some relationship to psychological trauma with these interventions?