Penumbr(a)cast - The Other Scene

This episode discusses the concept of the unconscious as the result of an experience under transference, understood in terms of the effects of the analyst's own experience of undergoing analysis. The episode also discusses what is at stake in feminine jouissance, non-neurotic psychic structures, the beautiful, and it concludes with a reflection on time.

This episode discusses the concept of the unconscious as the result of an experience under transference, understood in terms of the effects of the analyst's own experience of undergoing analysis. The episode also discusses what is at stake in feminine jouissance, non-neurotic psychic structures, the beautiful, and it concludes with a reflection on time.

Thanks to Steven Miller for reading the English translation for this version of the episode.


Find Willy Apollon’s work here:

Le vaudou, un espace pour les voix [Voodoo: a Space for Voices] (Éditions Galilée, 1976)

“Psychoanalysis and the Freudian Rupture” — differences(2017)

“The Limit: a Fundamental Question for the Subject in the Human Experience” — Konturen(2010)

“Four seasons in femininity orfour men in a woman's life” — Topoi(1993)

After Lacan - ed. Robert Hughes and Karen Moron (SUNY Press, 2002)

Lacan on Psychosis - ed. Apollon, Danielle Bergeron, Lucie Cantin (Routledge, 2018)

Co-founder, Gifric - Groupe interdisciplinaire freudien de recherche et d’intervention clinique 

Co-founder, The 388 - a psychoanalytic treatment center for psychotic adults

References mentioned in this episode:

“The Unconscious” - Freud

“To Have Done With the Judgement of God” — Artaud 

“How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs” — Deleuze & Guattari 

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This episode discusses the concept of structure in the psychoanalytic clinic, which enables an understanding of what is specifically at stake in the course of an analysis, in its distinction from structuralist theory, a DSM-based diagnosis, and psychotherapy.
 
Find Shanna Carlson’s work here:
Sex for Structuralists: The Non-Oedipal Logics of Femininity and Psychosis (Palgrave McMillan, 2018)

“Transgender Subjectivity and the Logic of Sexual Difference” - differences (2010)

“In defense of queer kinships: Oedipus recast” - Subjectivity (2010)

“Transgender Subjectivity and the Logic of Sexual Difference” - The Transgender Studies Reader 2 (2013)

“Please select your gender: From the invention of hysteria to the democratizing of transgenderism” - The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (2016)

 Medieval Saints' Lives: The Gift, Kinship and Community in Old French Hagiography (Review) -  L’Esprit Createur (2010)

References mentioned in this episode:

“Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy” — Freud

“Desuturing Desire: The Work of the Letter in the Miller-Leclaire Debate,” Tracy Mcnulty in Concept and Form Volume II: Interviews and Essays on the Cahiers pour l’Analyse  (Verso, 2012)

Episode 1, Penumbr(a)cast

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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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In this episode Tracy McNulty discusses the Lacanian conception of the act and the related operation of the pass that he introduced in his school of psychoanalysis in 1967 and that remains a crucial procedure at the end of an analysis and also in a school of analysis.

Find Tracy McNulty’s work here:

Wrestling with the Angel: Experiments in Symbolic Life (Columbia University Press, 2014) 

The Hostess: Hospitality, Femininity, and the Expropriation of Identity(University of Minnesota Press, 2006)

“The Untreatable: The Freudian Act and Its Legacy”  - Crisis Critique(2019)

Constructing the Drive (edited with differences) (2017)

References mentioned in this episode:

Seminar XV, The Psychoanalytic Act — Lacan

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Penumbr(a)cast - The Other Scene is a podcast related to Penumbr(a), the journal of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis & Culture at Buffalo: https://www.penumbrajournal.org 

Special thanks to Megan Hirner for her assistance with the audio files and many other details to produce this podcast. 

This brief introduction explains how the podcast came into existence in 2020, as well as its initial project.