In this episode Claudia talks Teddy Duncan Jr. who departs from the Marxian consideration of the meat-commodity to think about how psychoanalysis, especially Lacanian psychoanalysis, might be useful in understanding human relations with meat. They discuss the interconnections of language, disavowal, symbolism, jouissance, and ‘the Real’ in this discussion. 

Date Recorded: 12 November 2025

Teddy Duncan Jr is a professor at Valencia College in Orlando, Florida. Teddy’s academic writing on subjects such as animality, psychoanalysis, pedagogy, and philosophy has been published in Between the Species, Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, the International Journal of Zizek Studies, The Latin American Literary Review, and The Midwest Quarterly. His freelance writing on art, politics, and literature has appeared in publications such as The Observer, Compact Magazine, Document Journal, and Washington Independent Review of Books, among others. His first academic book, Interpreting Meat, was released in late 2024.  Get in touch with Teddy Duncan via [email protected]

Featured: 

• Zoological Lacan: A Lacanian Framework for Animality and Humanness by Teddy Duncan
• For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factorby Slavoj Žižek
• The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol Adams 
• Mythologiesby Roland Barthes 
• Powers of Horror by Julia Kristeva
• Animal to Edible by Noilie Vialles
• Ecrits: A Selection by Jacques Lacan
• Human, All Too Human: "Animal Studies" and the Humanities by Cary Wolfe 
• “Eat More Chicken” – Chick-Fil-A-Cows Ad Campaign

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