Parallax View
Ryan and Todd analyze Slavoj Zizek's contribution in what may be his magnum opus--The Parallax View. They discuss how he builds on the concept of parallax as originally articulated by Kojin Karatani a...
28 Apr 20241h 12min
Lacan's Seminar 11: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
Ryan and Todd unpack Jacques Lacan's most well-known seminar--Seminar XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. In doing so, they focus on Lacan's own exclusion as a starting point and then...
13 Apr 20241h 26min
Lacan's Seminar 7: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
Ryan and Todd analyze the complexity of Jacques Lacan's Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis. They discuss the various notions that appear there--from das Ding to sublimation to death drive to th...
30 Mar 20241h 28min
Critique Of Pure Reason -- Introduction
Ryan and Todd continue their exploration of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason with the Introduction. They discuss the importance of his critique of dogmatic metaphysics and the incredible discov...
16 Mar 20241h 18min
Blue Velvet
Ryan and Todd interpret David Lynch's Blue Velvet by paying special attention to the Kantian dimension of the film. They consider the film in terms of the thing-in-itself and the sublime.
3 Mar 20241h 19min
Critique Of Pure Reason -- Preface
Ryan and Todd begin their analysis of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by working through the prefaces to the first and second edition of the work. They focus on the radicality of Kant's breakt...
18 Feb 20241h 20min
Symbolic Castration
Ryan and Todd consider the concept of symbolic castration as it develops in psychoanalysis and as it bears on both politics and culture. They relate symbolic castration to some of the key concepts in ...
5 Feb 20241h 31min
Dialectical Reversal
Ryan and Todd explore the working of the dialectical reversal, how weaknesses can turn into strengths, how successes can turn into failures. They look at this through a variety of everyday examples an...
22 Jan 20241h 15min
