RU232: DR BOB SAMUELS ON (MIS)UNDERSTANDING FREUD WITH LACAN, ZIZEK & NEUROSCIENCE

Rendering Unconscious episode 232.

Dr. Bob Samuels is a psychoanalyst and lecturer in advanced writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is here to discuss his new book (Mis)Understanding Freud with Lacan, Zizek, and Neuroscience (2022). https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-13327-5

His other books include Generation X and the Rise of the Entertainment Subject (2021), Viral Rhetoric: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Politics after Covid-19 (2021), Freud for the Twenty-First Century (2019), Psychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences (2017), Psychoanalyzing the Left and Right after Donald Trump (2016) and Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free (2013).

He also contributed a chapter to Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (2023) edited by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair. https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalytic-Perspectives-on-the-Films-of-Ingmar-Bergman-From-Freud-to/Sinclair/p/book/9781032060071

This episode is also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/uYyILUuzC8o

For more, check out:
SAMUELS, BOB – RU151: ON GEN X & THE RISE OF THE ENTERTAINMENT SUBJECT

SAMUELS, ROBERT – RU105: PSYCHOANALYST, LECTURER & AUTHOR ON FREUD FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, PSYCHOANALYSIS & POLITICS

And his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@robertsamuels3208

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