Notes
The episode claims that Sigmund Freud#39;s most important work is /Beyond the Pleasure Principle/, but that you shouldn't start reading Freud with that.
Jacqueline Rose has important commentary on Freud's later works.
Sigmund Freudessentially believed that one is not born a woman
Jacques Lacandidn't "become Lacan" until Seminar XI.
Hegel's idea of the subject is only free when it recognizes itself in absolute otherness.
Lacan's idea of anxiety is a bit like Hegel's idea of freedom.
The hosts do not like Lacan's Ecrits much.
Zizekbelieves that Christianityhas an atheistic core to it.
Sigmund Freud#39;s point regarding the phallus is that it's false from the start, it's not "phallo-centric". Psychoanalysisis an analysis of a phallo-centric society.
Recommended readings
Freud
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A Note Upon the Mystic Writing Pad
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Negation
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Fetishism
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The Interpretation of Dreams
Lacan
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The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
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Anxiety
Zizek
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Looking Awry
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The Plague of Fantasies
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The Fright of Real Tears
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The Parallax View
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Less Than Nothing
Copjec
The episode recommends all of Copjec's works, but in particular:
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"The Orthopsychic Subject"
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"Sex and the Euthanasia of Reason"
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Response to Judith Butler
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Zupancic
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The Odd One In
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Ethics of the Real
Ruti
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The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living
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Between Levinas and Lacan: Self, Other, Ethics
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The Ethics of Opting Out
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