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  • Pill Pod 229 - Theory of the Gooner: Baudrillard vs Lacan

    Pill Pod 229 - Theory of the Gooner: Baudrillard vs Lacan
    Oct 31 2025
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    The Pill Pod reads Daniel Kolitz' anthropology of the gooners in Harper's Magazine https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/ and we find it's all connected man

    Other sources cited included Lacan Seminar X, Freud Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and Baudrillard Transparency of Evil
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    1 h et 13 min
  • Pill Pod 228 - Lacan can Fix you $♢a

    Pill Pod 228 - Lacan can Fix you $♢a
    Oct 30 2025
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    We conclude our Lacan series with what Fink says is the desired end of Lacanian psychoanalysis. And, the ends of psychoanalysis coincide with some valuable insights for Lacan's theorizing beyond psychoanalysis.
    Works cited are Fink's Lacanian Subject (ch. 5; https://amzn.to/4qz1Fgx) and A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis (ch. 10; https://amzn.to/4hAIKh5).
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    1 h et 36 min
  • Freud on Film: An Interview with Richard Ledes

    Freud on Film: An Interview with Richard Ledes
    Oct 9 2025
    Richard Ledes, director of the films Adieu Lacan and V13, explains his process, namely, adapting French plays about psychoanalysis into English-language films. He connects the seduction of nascent fascism in 1913 Vienna to the present moment a century later.


    Find V13 on AppleTV, Prime Video

    Find Ledes' catalogue at https://www.richardledes.com/

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    48 min
  • Pill Pod 225 - Lacan on the Pervert

    Pill Pod 225 - Lacan on the Pervert
    Oct 6 2025
    The Pill Pod looks at the structure of the perverts in Episode 5 of our series on Lacan. Find the other episodes at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

    Sources:
    Jacques Lacan - Seminar X, "The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious", Ecrits
    Bruce Fink - Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
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    1 h et 13 min
  • Pill Pod 224 - ChatGPT Psychosis: A Lacanian Interpretation

    Pill Pod 224 - ChatGPT Psychosis: A Lacanian Interpretation
    Sep 19 2025
    The Pill Pod looks at the chatbot psychosis phenomenon and compares it to Lacan's clinical structure of psychosis.


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    Sources:
    Jacques Lacan - Seminar III

    Bruce Fink - Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis

    "People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies" Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

    "They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent them Spiraling" New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html
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    1 h et 18 min
  • Pill Pod 221 - Capitalist Realism

    Pill Pod 221 - Capitalist Realism
    Sep 12 2025
    1Dime joins Erik and Victor to discuss Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism. We cover the popularity of the book, the term, and then wonder whether left-populist electoral campaigns perform the same cathartic function as anti-capitalist TV shows.

    See more from 1Dime: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee
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    1 h et 8 min
  • Pill Pod 220 - Lacan: The Other of Language (preview)

    Pill Pod 220 - Lacan: The Other of Language (preview)
    Aug 15 2025
    We wanted to review some Lacan because everybody's still desiring, and Bruce Fink's Lacanian Subject (1995) is quite often touted as the best unofficial intro, and we can see why.

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    This is the book: https://amzn.to/4oubPxQ
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    15 min
  • Pill Pod 219 - Peter Thiel's Deranged Apocalypticism

    Pill Pod 219 - Peter Thiel's Deranged Apocalypticism
    Aug 11 2025
    In a recent interview with the New York Times Peter Thiel, one of the world's most powerful men, gave ample evidence that he should be institutionalized before he hurts anyone else.

    Link to the full interview https://youtu.be/vV7YgnPUxcU?si=qSLrUmKeEblb4jYS

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    58 min