Speaking Body | InForm: Why Do People Enjoy Hating Freud So Much?

Show Notes

INTRO:
In this episode of the InForm Podcast, Neil & Jared explore why people enjoy hating Freud so much. Our arguments are that the education system does a horrible job of presenting Freud's work, an abundance of myths about Freud, Anti-Semitism, and the friend/enemy distinction. We sort of wandering all over the place talking about a few reasons we believe people dislike Freud so much, but we still have a lot more that we want to say. Ergo, this episode is the first in a series, which we needed to cut short when a child interrupted the recording. 

The Psychoanalysis of Everyday Life: 

• Surplus Jouissance of getting good grades in grad school. We reference... 
  • InForm 045 with Todd McGowan
  • Seminar 16 on Lacan in Irland 
  • Surplus Jouissance 
  • Six Paradigm of Jouissance (Summary) 

Why Do People Enjoy Hating On Freud: 

• Lack of any real knowledge, and an abundance of myths.
• Bad exposure in the education system.
• Being actually unsettled by what Freud says (Oedipal complex, unconscious, sexuality etc. 
• The friend/enemy distinction.
  • Carl Schmitt - The Friend/Enemy Distinction. 
  • Giorgio Agamben & Homo Sacer. 
  • The Episode of The Daily where they talk about China as the enemy

Various Sundry Things: 

• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, by Carlo Rovelli. 
• The Lacanian Review #7 

Creators and Guests

Host

Neil Gorman

Neil Gorman is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst tin private practice near Chicago. He is the founder and owner of Interlude Wellness PLLC, a member of the Lacanian Compass, the New Lacaian School (NLS), and the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP).

What is Speaking Body ?

From the clinic to culture, where psychoanalysis meets the everyday.