Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Pt. 5)

Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Pt. 5)

1:40:11 Aug 24, 2020
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DON'T YOU DARE CALL IT A COMEBACK.  Part 5 of our Todd McGowan Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets reading series is in full effect this week. In Chapter 5, CC Alex leads us through a discussion on psychoanalytic approaches to freedom under capitalism, universals, and McGowan's use of the symbolic to explain capital's functioning along with all the usual Red Troika hijinks. ENJOY. Further Reading/References Did the Ancient Greeks Believe in Their Myths?  Interpassivity The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn Immanuel Kant J.P. Sartre Robert Solomon Erich Fromm Lacan's Register Theory Lacan's Obsessive and Hysterical Neurosis ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front
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