In this episode, Daniel Wilson discusses the notion of the unconscious Thing ("das Ding") in the work of Freud, Lacan, and Apollon, as the inaccessible cause of the subject and thus the crucial problem at stake in desire and the drive over the course of an analysis, and in an individual's life.

Find Daniel Wilson’s work here:

“Freud’s Lamarckian Clinic” - Inheritance in Psychoanalysis, edited by Joel Goldbach and James Godley (2018)

 “Writing the Drive: From Freud’s Theory of Bisexuality to Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language” - differences: a Journal of Feminist and Cultural Studies (2017)

“The Freudian Thing and the Ethics of Speech”  - Konturen (2015)

References mentioned in this episode:

Project for a Scientific Psychology — Freud

Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis — Lacan  

“The Unconscious” — Freud

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