Speaking Body

Silly intro 0:00 - 1:00 

• We decided that Jared will do The Psychoanalysis of Everyday Life

The Psychoanalysis of Everyday Life 1:00 - 20:45

• Useless things I have & adore 
• Preslava Robert
• Surplus Jouissance 
• The TV show Hoarders 
• Investing & Retirement v. Adolescent Spending
• Peter Rollins 
• Streaming music, films v. Having the media 

Main segment 20:45 - 56:05 

• How psychoanalytic thinking and practices can be used (or can't be used) in institutions 
• The episode with Todd McGowan 
• "getting better" is a by-product, a bonus
• Analysts don't have a "vested interest" nor do they make demands of patients/analysands 
• Jared's work in a hospital setting 
• Assessments v. therapy 
• Soaking up the symbolic order (the Other, the Name-of-the-Father) 
• Hospital's don't engage with the unconscious, they aim at getting people "back on their feet" 
• Psychoanalytic v. Behavioral health folks 

The Extra Segment 56:05 -1:06:05

• Talking about the usefulness or non-usefulness of meds 

Various Sundry Things 1:06:05 - 1:22:45

• Surplus Jouissance Projects [S][J][P]
• Craig Mod's Special Projects 
• The iterative process of thinking & writing 
• [S][J][P] ◎ Drafts
• [S][J][P] Podcast lectures 
• [S][J][P] Weekly Newsletter

This episode of the InForm: Podcast was a free-wheeling conversation, which lasted a little over an hour, between Neil and Duke Novak. 

In the conversation, we discuss the work of Psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott and the impact that has had on how Duke and Neil Think about their own work with children and teens.

Some of the ideas that we talk about in the episodes are:

• Deprivation and institutions in group homes.
• The holding environment. 
• Fear of being dropped.
• not becoming callous as one does clinical work.
• The true self and the false self.
• And when it cuts somewhat famous quote, “ it is a joy to be hidden, and a disaster to not be found.“

In this Episode of InForm Neil interviews Winnie about her experience starting psychoanalysis. The hope here is that this interview will be interesting and useful to others who might be considering starting an analysis.

Intro: 

• We want to make psychoanalysis available to more people, even though it is not for everyone.   
• Helping people who are your friends enter into analysis when you're an analyst.  

Content: 

• Winnie combines psychoanalysis and social work. 
• Finding an analyst. 
• The process of analysis can unsettle you. 
  • It might be better to expect that. 
• Going to Omaha. 
• Finding yourself making slips 
  • "But that's not what I meant!" 
  • Yes, but it is what you said... 
• What if we paid social workers & teachers better?

INTRO:
In this episode of the InForm Podcast, Neil & Jared explore why people enjoy hating Freud so much. Our arguments are that the education system does a horrible job of presenting Freud's work, an abundance of myths about Freud, Anti-Semitism, and the friend/enemy distinction. We sort of wandering all over the place talking about a few reasons we believe people dislike Freud so much, but we still have a lot more that we want to say. Ergo, this episode is the first in a series, which we needed to cut short when a child interrupted the recording. 

The Psychoanalysis of Everyday Life: 

• Surplus Jouissance of getting good grades in grad school. We reference... 
  • InForm 045 with Todd McGowan
  • Seminar 16 on Lacan in Irland 
  • Surplus Jouissance 
  • Six Paradigm of Jouissance (Summary) 

Why Do People Enjoy Hating On Freud: 

• Lack of any real knowledge, and an abundance of myths.
• Bad exposure in the education system.
• Being actually unsettled by what Freud says (Oedipal complex, unconscious, sexuality etc. 
• The friend/enemy distinction.
  • Carl Schmitt - The Friend/Enemy Distinction. 
  • Giorgio Agamben & Homo Sacer. 
  • The Episode of The Daily where they talk about China as the enemy

Various Sundry Things: 

• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, by Carlo Rovelli. 
• The Lacanian Review #7 

Intro: 

Psychoanalytic superstar Todd McGowan makes his second appearance on the InForm: Podcast. In this episode (after Neil makes an error), we talk about psychoanalysis in the classroom. 

Longer Show Notes: 

At the top of the show, you hear Neil realizing he has forgotten to hit record after we have all been talking for 25 min. But after that, you can hear Neil, Jared, and Todd discuss: 

• How Todd started to get interested in psychoanalysis as a graduate student and the impact of reading Žizek's The Sublime Object of Ideology had on his formation as a psychoanalytic thinker and teacher. 
• Does psychoanalysis need to be marginal in the classroom? 
• Staying with the 99 & letting the one go. 
• What it is like to motivate students, and one's own children... or not motivate them. 
• Trying to teach from the discourse of the analyst. 
• Teaching fro the discourse of the hysteric (or perhaps the obsessional). 
• Grading practices. 
• D&G's Anti-Oedipus as a text that might be more in line with Lacan than people think. 
• Transference to institutions. 

And other stuff that I can't remember. 

In this episode of InForm: Podcast Neil & Jared ramble a lot (seriously, it's a lot). When they don't ramble they talk about if it is possible to do psychoanalysis with people who are too accepting of psychoanalysis. 

• Some blah, blah, blah 0:00 - 0:07 
• Intro 0:07 - 2:42
• Psychoanalysis of Everyday Life 2:42 - 17:05
  • Music & psychoanalysis 
  • The unconscious as an apature 
• Main segment 17:15 - 1:06:18 
  • Can you do psychoanalysis with people who are too accepting of it 
  • Psychoanalytic politics 
  • The Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis 
  • Mad Men 
• Various Sundry Things 1:06:18 - 1:14:22 
  • The Expanse 

Announcements
Below are links to the things we mentioned in the announcements section of the podcast. 

• Lacanian Ink 
• Lacanian Review
• Lacanian Review Online (free) 
• Lacanian Works Exchange (free) 

The Psychoanalysis of Everyday Life (Jared)

• We talk about signs v. signifiers 

Main Segment: Does Psychoanalysis Need to be Marginal (Neil & Jared) 

• Recap of the prior episode 
• Maria Bamford 
• Adam Phillips RSA
• The Aims of Analysis, By Thomas Svolos 

Various Sundry Things: 

• Sign up for Neil's email newsletter
• Neil's website

Intro:
On this episode of InForm: Podcast Neil & Jared get into a specific question: Does psychoanalysis need to be marginal?

Content: 

• The Psychoanalysis of Everday Life -- Neil talks about getting rid of stuff, and how streaming services make things less desirable. 
• Main segment -- We start to talk about the idea that psychoanalysis may need to be marginal. We base this off of Freud's idea that if people accept what psychoanalysis is saying too easily/quickly they probably don't understand what psychoanalysis is getting at.  
• Various Sundry Things -- The Happiest Season, They Live, Blue Light glasses. 

OUTLINE:
In this episode, Neil & Jared try a new format for the show:

(1) The psychoanalysis of everyday life -- Jared talks about "accidentally" leaving something at work.
(2) Clinicians v. Analysts -- We continue our discussion of the difference between clinicians (psychotherapist) and analysts (psychoanalysis).
(3) Various sundry things -- The film Inside Llewyn Davis

REFERENCES:
a) The Six Paradigms of Jouissance
b) The introductory Lectures to Psychoanalysis
c) The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
b) Owls at Dawn
c) Inside Llewyn Davis