This chapter delves into the philosophical complexities of identity and the journey of self-discovery. It challenges conventional notions of selfhood by emphasizing the fluidity and multiplicity of personal identities influenced by societal pressures.
Alright, Todd McGowan is back again on the podcast to talk more about his most recent book Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves.
Are there good and bad forms of alienation? We're talking the politics of non-belonging, alienation in cinema, the defence of lost causes, Friends and the failure of beginnings and the impossibility of endings, Lacan's debt to Jean Paul Sartre, identitarian politics, and Slavoj Žižek.