RU277: DR TODD MCGOWAN ON THE RACIST FANTASY: UNCONSCIOUS ROOTS OF HATRED

Rendering Unconscious episode 277.

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Professor Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. https://vermont.academia.edu/ToddMcGowan

He is the author of:
Universality and Identity Politics (2020) https://amzn.to/3NTDtna
Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (2019) https://amzn.to/3RRDhpN
Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy (2017) https://amzn.to/3S9AYzS
Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016) https://amzn.to/3RU7nsI
Contemporary Film Directors: Spike Lee (2014) https://amzn.to/41PtwwQ
The Fictional Christopher Nolan (2013) https://amzn.to/3vAOK5v
Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis (2013) https://amzn.to/47wh6eF
The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan (2007) https://amzn.to/3RPHVVf
The Impossible David Lynch (2007) https://amzn.to/41OuARL

He’s here to discuss his new book The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of Hatred (Bloomsbury, 2022). https://amzn.to/48tw4Du

Listen to his podcast Why Theory? with Ryan Engley.

Dr. McGowan contributed a chapter “The sex in their violence: eroticizing biopower” to the anthology On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) edited by Vanessa Sinclair and Manya Steinkoler. https://amzn.to/3vmvdWs

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