[BEST OF] Capitalism and Desire: In Dialogue with Psychoanalysis

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Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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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 much more!

Check out Todd's book here: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/capitalism-and-desire/9780231178723

Check out Todd's podcast Why Theory here: https://player.fm/series/why-theory

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.
0:09.5	So for today's episode, we have a really, really good one.
0:12.9	Really excited about this.
0:13.9	It was incredibly engaging.
0:15.4	I think we could have talked for several more hours.
0:17.7	I think a lot of my listeners will find a lot of value in this conversation.
0:22.5	It is with Todd McGowan, who was previously on our episode entitled, I believe, A Mancipation
0:27.9	After Hegel, which was a book that he wrote about Hegel and dialectics and contradiction.
0:32.8	And at the end of that episode, I said I wanted to have him back on to talk about Freud
0:36.0	and psychoanalysis.
0:37.9	And this is what this episode is.
0:39.5	So this has really centered around his book Capitalism and Desire, The Psychic Cost of
0:44.2	Free Markets, which is a psychoanalytic critique of capitalism, which is incredibly interesting
0:50.9	draws on a lot of the Marxist tradition, as well as a bunch of other traditions, clearly
0:55.8	the psychoanalytic one.
0:57.7	We just use that as a jumping off point to have a really wonderful discussion about Marxism
1:02.5	and psychoanalysis.
1:04.2	What the two can offer one another, where the contradictions and conflicts may be, etc.
1:09.6	So I really hope people enjoy this conversation.
1:11.7	And if you like what we do here at RevLeft Radio, you can go to revolutionaryleftradio.com.
1:16.9	You can join our Patreon.
1:17.9	You can go to our YouTube channel, find our sister podcast, and much more.
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