Where to Start 1: The Psychoanalytic Theorists | Why Theory
source : Where to Start 1: The Psychoanalytic Theorists by Why Theory
Notes
The episode claims that [[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.
[[Sigmund Freud]] essentially believed that [[one is not born a woman]].
[[Jacques Lacan]] didn’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.
[[Zizek]] believes that [[Christianity]] has an atheistic core to it.
[[Sigmund Freud]]’s point regarding the phallus is that it’s false from the start, it’s not “phallo-centric”. [[Psychoanalysis]] is an analysis of a phallo-centric society.
Recommended readings
[[Freud]]
- A Note Upon the Mystic Writing Pad
- Negation
- Fetishism
- The Interpretation of Dreams
[[Lacan]]
- The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
- Anxiety
[[Zizek]]
- Looking Awry
- The Plague of Fantasies
- The Fright of Real Tears
- The Parallax View
- Less Than Nothing
[[Copjec]]
The episode recommends all of Copjec’s works, but in particular:
- “The Orthopsychic Subject”
-
“Sex and the Euthanasia of Reason”
- Response to [[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