People keep insisting that psychoanalysis is dead, but is it really so? And how can psychoanalysis be brought back to life in the humanities classroom? Join scholars Prof. Anneleen Masschelein and Dr. Yael Segalovitz as they interview key thinkers and writers who work at the intersection of psychoanalysis and literature. From autotheory, through dream-analysis in the classroom, to trans psychoanalysis, it is a wild ride!
In our eighth episode, the philosopher Amy Allen walks us through the dangerous and thrilling intersection between contemporary psychoanalysis and social thought. She leads us to the often forgotten bond between the Frankfurt School and the psychoanalytic tradition, the value of Melanie Klein's...
Published 02/01/22
In this episode, we excitingly continue our conversation with the renowned Judith Butler. She takes us through her objection to the so-called opposition between surface reading and the hermeneutics of suspicion, describes what she calls “the relational move,” and animates for us her pedagogical...
Published 12/26/21