Why Theory Where to Start 1: The Psychoanalytic Theorists
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Starting with Freud
- Start with Freud's essays for a manageable entry point.
- "A Note Upon the Mystic Writing Pad" offers key concepts and explores memory and the unconscious.
*Freud's Focus on Form *
- Freud's focus on form distinguishes him, as seen in "Mystic Writing Pad".
- Even if content is gone, the form leaves a mark, like on a hard drive.
Dream Work and Distortion
- Dream interpretation focuses on the form, not just symbolic meaning.
- The "dream work" is the formal shift, where desire distorts the latent content.
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
I Unfair Teaching, but It's Fair.
02:07 • 2min
The Key Text for Darda, Is It a Trace?
03:42 • 2min
The Dream Work Is the Formal Shift
06:10 • 3min
I Think It's Not Right to Say That Lacon Has a Certain Vision of Death Drive That Then Gi Just Sort of Takes Up
08:46 • 2min
I'm Committed to the Idea Surviving
10:51 • 3min
Is It Feminine Sexuality or Female Sexuality?
13:59 • 2min
Is There a Feminine Sexuality in Freud?
15:32 • 3min
Fray's 'It's Not the Beginning', but It's the Long Cut
18:47 • 2min
The Most Important Period of Psychoanalysis, I Think?
20:27 • 1min
The Theory of the Short Session, Right?
21:52 • 2min
What Is the Substance Here?
23:36 • 4min
Is He Gonna Disappear Byad?
27:15 • 2min
Anxiety Is Not an Objecty
28:56 • 2min
Nine Is on Identification
30:48 • 2min
Is This a Beech Ball Over the Plate?
32:24 • 4min
I Think He Agrees With You a Little Bit
35:58 • 3min
Anxiety Is the One Affect That Doesn't Lies
38:30 • 2min
You Can Only Understand Them After You've Read All the Seminars
40:33 • 3min
The Contian Ethics and the Sodian Experience, I Think, Is a Dignity, Not a Sod.
43:22 • 3min
Do You Think That Slavoy Is a Likgekian Philosopher?
46:34 • 2min
Looking Awry by Robis a Highland Book, Ok?
48:54 • 2min
The Non Duped Eir
50:49 • 2min
The Great Hit Is the Long Cut
52:57 • 2min
Is That a Tolitarianism Book?
54:34 • 2min
Against the Double Blackmail
56:23 • 2min
The Shortes Shadows by Lank Tat Alenka
58:26 • 2min
Is the Fallas a Fraud?
01:00:43 • 2min
Is It Just Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis?
01:02:23 • 2min
Is It Impossible to Prove You're Not a Race?
01:04:21 • 3min
Is It a Bad Play, or a Wut?
01:07:07 • 2min
I've Never Heard a Butler in Public, Is It?
01:08:49 • 2min
'Sleep and Dreams'
01:10:56 • 3min
Is There a Contrast?
01:13:41 • 2min
Is Iter Her Formula and Sexs Is Incomplete?
01:15:56 • 2min
How Do You Relate the Idea?
01:17:45 • 2min
The Call of Character
01:19:45 • 3min
I Don't Like the Title, but I Ant. But I Like Them. And I Like Then
01:22:55 • 2min
Mary Isis and the Three Guys
01:24:51 • 3min
Thanks for joining us on Why Theory. In this episode, Todd and I give a few recommendations on where to start and where not start introductory readings from six psychoanalytic theorists: Freud, Lacan, Slavoj Zizek, Joan Copjec, Alenka Zupancic, and Mari Ruti. This is the first iteration of what will hopefully be a mini series on where to start and where not to start with different thinkers. We both think this is a fine start but who are we to judge. Thanks for listening, as always. We hope you enjoy the conversation.
Recommended in this episode:
Freud: "A Note Upon the Mystic Writing Pad," "Negation," "Fetishism," The Interpretation of Dreams
Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, Anxiety
Zizek: Looking Awry, The Plague of Fantasies, The Fright of Real Tears, The Parallax View, Less Than Nothing
Copjec: "The Orthopsychic Subject," "Sex and the Euthanasia of Reason"
Zupancic: The Odd One In, Ethics of the Real
Ruti: The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living; Between Levinas and Lacan: Self, Other, Ethics; The Ethics of Opting Out