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Podcast: Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture
Episode: RU75: Rendering Dr Todd McGowan Unconscious, Universality, Identity Politics, Culture, Film
Description: 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 "Th...