INFORMAZIONI SU QUESTO EPISODIO
What if the way we think, desire, and enjoy is not freely chosen, but structured by forces we can barely see? And what if the frameworks we most commonly use to understand human behaviour, psychology, economics, political science, self-help, are precisely the frameworks that prevent us from seeing those forces clearly?
In this rare and intellectually exhilarating double-guest episode, Dr. Steven Stolz is joined by Prof. Todd McGowan of the University of Vermont and Prof. Ryan Engley of Pomona College, the acclaimed hosts of the "Why Theory" podcast, which has spent over 200 episodes bringing Lacanian psychoanalysis and Hegelian philosophy to bear on everything from blockbuster superhero films and television Christmas specials to contemporary politics, ideology, desire, and the deepest questions of what it means to be a human subject in a capitalist world.
McGowan and Engley are not merely academic commentators. They are genuinely original thinkers who have built one of the most intellectually serious and consistently surprising podcasts in the English-speaking world, one that has demonstrated, episode after episode, that psychoanalysis and continental philosophy are not museum pieces but living tools for understanding the world we actually inhabit.
