Eliot Rosenstock

In this engaging discussion, psychotherapist Eliot Rosenstock tackles the intersections of addiction and capitalism. He reveals how digital interactions can be profoundly addictive, questioning modern therapy's limits while exploring deeper psychological methods. The conversation critiques the commodification of wellness, contrasting genuine spirituality with superficial engagement. Rosenstock also delves into psychedelics and their therapeutic potential, urging a societal shift to address existential fears and self-destructive behaviors.

Eliot Rosenstock, author of The Ego And Its Hyperstate, joins the hosts to discuss the mapping of negativity, symbolization, exchanging thoughts, humanism vs inhumanism, cancel culture, uncertainties, capitalism, and exploring egoism. They also reflect on Patreon support and the fleeting nature of existence.

Psychotherapist Eliot Rosenstock discusses Lacan's 3rd Seminar, exploring the differences between Lacanian and Freudian interpretations, the importance of understanding registers in clinical practice, Lacan's perspective on the ethical in reality, Schreiber's delusions and the question of freedom, communication and signification in psychoses, the experience of listening to a song, decoding and the power of psychoanalysis, public mental health and payment in therapy, and the seductive power of delusion in Schreiber's case.

Guests: John Zigterman, co-host of Beep Beep Lettuce; Adam, co-host of Acid Horizon; Eliot Rosenstock, author of Zizek and The Clinic. Interesting topics: Sterner's influence on Marx, exploring autonomy and society's enclosure, the illusory nature of identity, the concept of transgression, freedom and unfreedom in power structures, individualism, capitalism, and revolutionary thought, revolution and insurrection, and the freedom of unfixed purpose.

John Zigterman, co-host of Beep Beep Lettuce, co-hosts with Eliot Rosenstock, author of Zizek and The Clinic. They discuss various interesting topics including the concept of the 'I' and the self, the disruptive nature of 9/11 and its parallels to Silicon Valley, the concept of inward and outward freedom, contradictions of liberalism, egoism and morality in relation to the state, the concept of liberation and its relation to the left and right, existential meaningless, and their experience with purchasing and promoting books.