RU277: DR TODD MCGOWAN ON THE RACIST FANTASY: UNCONSCIOUS ROOTS OF HATRED

Rendering Unconscious episode 277. Rendering Unconscious Podcast now has it's own Instagram page! Follow: https://www.instagram.com/renderingunconscious/ Professor Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. https://vermont.academia.edu/ToddMcGowan He is the author of: Universality and Identity Politics (2020) https://amzn.to/3NTDtna Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (2019) https://amzn.to/3RRDhpN Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy (2017) https://amzn.to/3S9AYzS Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016) https://amzn.to/3RU7nsI Contemporary Film Directors: Spike Lee (2014) https://amzn.to/41PtwwQ The Fictional Christopher Nolan (2013) https://amzn.to/3vAOK5v Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis (2013) https://amzn.to/47wh6eF The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan (2007) https://amzn.to/3RPHVVf The Impossible David Lynch (2007) https://amzn.to/41OuARL He’s here to discuss his new book The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of Hatred (Bloomsbury, 2022). https://amzn.to/48tw4Du Listen to his podcast Why Theory? with Ryan Engley. Dr. McGowan contributed a chapter “The sex in their violence: eroticizing biopower” to the anthology On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) edited by Vanessa Sinclair and Manya Steinkoler. https://amzn.to/3vmvdWs This episode is also available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/DzVH3LgBf5k?si=aTkOl373Eh19nnBO Support the podcast at our Patreon where we post exclusive content every week, as well as unreleased material and works in progress, and we also have a Discord server: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl We also have a Substack where weekly content is posted: https://vanessa23carl.substack.com Your support is HUGELY appreciated! Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works with people internationally: http://www.drvanessasinclair.net Follow Dr. Vanessa Sinclair on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rawsin_/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/rawsin_ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drvanessasinclair23 Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: http://www.renderingunconscious.org Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com His publishing company is Trapart Books, Films and Editions. https://store.trapart.net Check out his indie record label Highbrow Lowlife at Bandcamp: https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com Follow him at: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CaAbrahamsson Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carl.abrahamsson/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@carlabrahamsson YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@carlabrahamsson23 The song at the end of the episode is “Surreal and dreamlike” from the album “All poets are p0rn0graphers” by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy. Available at Pete Murphy’s Bandcamp Page. https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com Our music is also available at Spotify and other streaming services. https://open.spotify.com/artist/3xKEE2NPGatImt46OgaemY?si=nqv_tOLtQd2I_3P_WHdKCQ Image: book cover