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Podcast: Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture
Episode: RU220: DR JAMES SMITH ON THE POPULAR SHOW, POLITICS & PSYCHOANALYSIS
Description: Rendering Unconscious episode 220.
Dr. James A. Smith is a literary scholar and political commentator. His literary scholarship focuses on mid eighteenth-century literature, especially the work of Samuel Richardson and the reception of Shakespeare. He also writes about the history of literary criticism and critical theory: in particular the approaches of F.R. Leavis, Walter Benjamin, the British New Left, and the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan. Dr. Smith is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Theory, Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London. https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/james-smith
His first book is Samuel Richardson and the Theory...