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Id
Ryan and Todd finish their three-episode examination of Freud's structural theory of the psyche with a focus on the id. They discuss the lack of disc…
4 years, 11 months ago
Ego
In this second in a series of three episodes, Ryan and Todd discuss the trajectory of the concept of the ego from Freud to Lacan. They investigate ho…
4 years, 11 months ago
Superego
In this episode, Ryan and Todd trace the development of the concept of the superego from Freud's invention of it in the Ego and the Id to Jacques Lac…
5 years ago
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Ryan and Todd analyze the presuppositions and argument of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment. They challenge the concepti…
5 years ago
Introduction to Biopower
Ryan and Todd explore the notion of biopower, as first advanced by Michel Foucault and then developed by Giorgio Agamben. They discuss how biopower r…
5 years, 1 month ago
Heidegger and Hegel
In this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss the philosophical divide between Martin Heidegger and Hegel, taking as their starting point Heidegger's concep…
5 years, 1 month ago
Breaking Bad
Ryan and Todd work through the main ideas in the five seasons of the television series Breaking Bad, with a special focus on the final season. They d…
5 years, 1 month ago
Twin Peaks The Return
Ryan and Todd offer their interpretation of the television series Twin Peaks: The Return. After Ryan explains the role of the series in peak tv, they…
5 years, 2 months ago
Four Discourses
This episode unpacks the reasons that drove Jacques Lacan to invent the four discourses in Seminar XVII and then analyzes the structure of each disco…
5 years, 2 months ago
Read My Desire, Pt. 3: Sex, Difference, Relation
Ryan and Todd devote a third and final episode to Joan's Copjec 1994 classic Read My Desire, focusing the entire time on the final chapter in the boo…
5 years, 3 months ago