#+title: Where to Start 1: The Psychoanalytic Theorists | Why Theory
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* Notes
The episode claims that [[file:../20200707090939-sigmund_freud.org][Sigmund Freud]]'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.

[[file:../20200707090939-sigmund_freud.org][Sigmund Freud]] essentially believed that [[file:../20210420155756-one_is_not_born_a_woman.org][one is not born a woman]].

[[file:../20200707090614-jacques_lacan.org][Jacques Lacan]] didn't "become Lacan" until Seminar XI.

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Hegel's idea of the subject is only free when it recognizes itself in absolute
otherness.
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Lacan's idea of anxiety is a bit like Hegel's idea of freedom.

The hosts do not like Lacan's /Ecrits/ much.

[[file:../20210421095355-slavoj_zizek.org][Zizek]] believes that [[file:../20210421095326-christianity.org][Christianity]] has an atheistic core to it.

[[file:../20200707090939-sigmund_freud.org][Sigmund Freud]]'s point regarding the phallus is that it's false from the start,
it's not "phallo-centric". [[file:../20200707090558-psychoanalysis.org][Psychoanalysis]] is an analysis of a phallo-centric
society.
* Recommended readings
** [[file:../20200707090939-sigmund_freud.org][Freud]]
- A Note Upon the Mystic Writing Pad
- Negation
- Fetishism
- The Interpretation of Dreams
** [[file:../20200707090614-jacques_lacan.org][Lacan]]
- The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
- Anxiety
** [[file:../20210421095355-slavoj_zizek.org][Zizek]]
- Looking Awry
- The Plague of Fantasies
- The Fright of Real Tears
- The Parallax View
- Less Than Nothing
** [[file:../20210421104341-joan_copjec.org][Copjec]]
The episode recommends all of Copjec's works, but in particular:
- "The Orthopsychic Subject"
- "Sex and the Euthanasia of Reason"
  + Response to [[file:../20210421103750-judith_butler.org][Judith Butler]]
** Zupancic
- The Odd One In
- Ethics of the Real
** Ruti
- The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living
- Between Levinas and Lacan: Self, Other, Ethics
- The Ethics of Opting Out