{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Speaking Body ","title":"The Intersection of Psychoanalysis & Secular Buddhism","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/c1027052\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":568,"description":"For the first time, Neil reads a written piece aloud to promote the Speaking Body Substack (speakingbody.substack.com) and to improve his writing by hearing it spoken. \nThe piece, titled “The Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Secular Buddhism” with the subtitle “An Ethics That Resists the Seductive Feeling of Being Certain,” describes his long academic life shaped by school calendars and his current summer-like mode of slower research and reflection. He discusses discovering secular Buddhist Stephen Batchelor via the Ezra Klein Show and reading After Buddhism, focusing on Batchelor’s ethics of uncertainty, curiosity, and resisting the tyrannical pull of certainty. \nNeil connects these ideas to Lacanian psychoanalytic formation, plans a new cartel exploring Lacanian praxis and theology, and intends to share biweekly dispatches.\n00:00 Welcome and Setup\n01:09 Why Read It Aloud\n02:14 Piece Title and Structure\n02:30 Summer Mode Reflection\n04:40 Discovering Secular Buddhism\n05:32 Ethics of Uncertainty\n06:29 Three Key Bullet Points\n06:59 Lacanian Connection and Plans\n07:48 Dispatch Format and Footnotes\n08:20 Closing Thanks and Goodbye","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/8JksTysLRpAUVVJEn3EnYVYpWwe7p-vhWecp68v0k80/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82ZmE1/ZTIyOTdkNmU4MzI2/NDgxM2JjYWM1MDFl/OWI4Mi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}