Psychoanalysis

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Psychoanalytic understanding of truth is very different from your understanding of it. Only really specialists who understand that there's a distinction between someone like lacone and someone like jacues tery dae. And again, that that sounds perfect. Thank you very much for the on the other thing that people are going to be raising their hackles about is, don't these people intentionally try to be impossible to understand? Which is why we have you on the podcast and not the ghost of jacques lecon.

Neuroscience has given us great insights into how our brains work. But there is still room for purely humanistic disciplines to help us think through our thoughts and emotions, not to mention the meaning of our lives. Mari Ruti is a professor of English literature, with expertise in critical theory, gender studies, and psychoanalysis, especially the work of French theorist Jacques Lacan. We talk about the psychological drive that is motivated by what Lacan calls “lack,” which is related to “desire.” We use this as a way to think about such essential human experiences as mourning, creativity, and love. (We don’t talk about love enough here on the podcast.)

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Mari Ruti received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard University. She is currently a Distinguished Professor of critical theory and gender and sexuality studies at the University of Toronto. She is the co-editor of the Psychoanalytic Horizons book series for Bloomsbury.

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