# Joan Copjec

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RU39: Professor Todd McGowan on Signification of the Phallus from Reading Lacan's Ecrits

Today's discussion is with Professor Todd McGowan, about his chapter on "The Signification of the Phallus" in Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Signification of the Phallus' to 'Metaphor of the Subject' (Routledge, 2019) edited by Stijn Vanheule, Derek Hook and Calum Neil: https://www.routledge.com/Rea…

Episode 25: High Life (with Dr Isabel Millar)

In this episode, we are joined by Dr Isabel Millar to analyse the 2018 film 'High Life', directed by Claire Denis and starring Robert Pattinson with Juliette Binoche, Mia Goth, and André 3000. Our discussion focuses on the psychoanalytic aspects of the film, particularly in relation to the concepts…

New Materialisms

In this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss new materialisms, exploring their rejection of epistemology and their embrace of a flat ontology. After laying out the basic position of new materialism and its rejection of the priority of the subject, they attempt to prove that this is ultimately an untenabl…

What IS Sex? (Pt. 1)

Part of Red Library's Real Late Night Philosophy Hourz Series Comrade Commissar Alex and I work through a most intriguing and challenging work of philosophical and Lacanian psychoanalysis by Alenka Zupancic called What IS Sex? For part 1, we talk about the psychoanalytic view on the relationship…

Where to Start 1: The Psychoanalytic Theorists

Thanks for joining us on Why Theory. In this episode, Todd and I give a few recommendations on where to start and where not start introductory readings from six psychoanalytic theorists: Freud, Lacan, Slavoj Zizek, Joan Copjec, Alenka Zupancic, and Mari Ruti. This is the first iteration of what wil…

ZIZ046 Lacanian Theology and Buddhism (2012)

Slavoj Žižek talking about Lacanian theology in relation to Christianity and Buddhism. In this lecture Slavoj Žižek discusses the Kantian sublime in opera and film, the spectral texture of narrative, the mediation of desire, the Freudian unconscious, the fall in Christianity and Badiou’s conception…

Read My Desire, Pt. 1: Gaze and Excess

Ryan and Todd devote this episode to unpacking Joan Copjec's groundbreaking first book, Read My Desire. In this first part of a two part series, they focus on the first four chapters of the book, devoting most of the episode to an explication of "The Orthopsychic Subject," which is Copjec's critiqu…

Kant's Intuition and the Lacan's Imaginary

Kant's use of the term "intuition" was different than how we might normally think of it. By intuition we usually mean something like having been registered affectively in the body but unanalyzed or without conceptualization. We often intuit a situation as an affective whole before we have analyzed …

Why Henry Corbin Today?

In this episode, I spend time with New Perspectives on Henry Corbin, edited by Hadi Fakhoury, and reflect on why Corbin still feels so strangely alive right now. Corbin is difficult to place. He moves through Islamic philosophy, Suhrawardi, Shi’ism, Heidegger, Neoplatonism, angelology, psychoanaly…

Lacan, Corbin, & the Cloud of Resistance

In this episode, I continue working through New Perspectives on Henry Corbin by focusing on Joan Copjec’s chapter on Corbin, Lacan, Kiarostami, and the Cloud. What surprised me most was seeing someone from the world of Lacanian theory take Corbin seriously — not as an odd mystical detour, but as a…