source : Where to Start 1: The Psychoanalytic Theorists by Why Theory
The episode claims that [[Sigmund Freud]]’s most important work is Beyond the Pleasure Principle, but that you shouldn’t start reading Freud with that.
Jacqueline Rose has important commentary on Freud’s later works.
[[Sigmund Freud]] essentially believed that [[one is not born a woman]].
[[Jacques Lacan]] didn’t “become Lacan” until Seminar XI.
Hegel’s idea of the subject is only free when it recognizes itself in absolute otherness.
Lacan’s idea of anxiety is a bit like Hegel’s idea of freedom.
The hosts do not like Lacan’s Ecrits much.
[[Zizek]] believes that [[Christianity]] has an atheistic core to it.
[[Sigmund Freud]]’s point regarding the phallus is that it’s false from the start, it’s not “phallo-centric”. [[Psychoanalysis]] is an analysis of a phallo-centric society.
The episode recommends all of Copjec’s works, but in particular:
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