Mar 10, 2025
Todd McGowan joins the show once again, this time to discuss his newest book "Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity". Together, he and Breht discuss commodity fetishism, the tensions between Marxism and psychoanalysis, what a critique of the subjective aspects of capitalism offers anti-capitalist politics, the...
Jun 15, 2023
ORIGINALLY RELEASED Jan 14, 2020
Prof. Todd McGowan, author of "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Costs of Free Markets" and co-host of "Why Theory", returns to the show to talk with Breht about Marxism and Psychoanalysis, Freud, Lacan, Death Drive, Desire, the fundamental sense of Lack at the core of our psyches, and...
Jul 11, 2022
Todd McGowan returns to the show, this time to discuss the French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan. Breht and Todd explore many of his core concepts, his relation to Freud and Freud’s theory, his politics, his contributions to psychology, how his insights can useful for us today, and so much more.
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Jan 14, 2020
Prof. Todd McGowan, author of "Capitalism and Desire: The
Psychic Costs of Free Markets" and co-host of "Why Theory", returns
to the show to talk with Breht about Marxism and Psychoanalysis,
Freud, Lacan, Death Drive, Desire, the fundamental sense of Lack at
the core of our psyches, and much more!
Check out Todd's...
Oct 22, 2019
Todd McGowan, professor and author of "Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution" as well as co-host of the philosophy podcast "Why Theory", joins Breht to talk about the many misunderstandings of Hegelian philosophy, the history of Left and Right Hegelianism, the role that contradiction plays in...