Speaking Body

Intro:

On this episode of InForm:Podcast we talk with Dr. Leon Brenner about his forthcoming book The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language, which is part of the Palgrave Lacan Series edited by Calum Neil and Derek Hook.

Dr. Leon Brenner is a research fellow at the University of Potsdam and lecturer at the International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin. He is a training analyst, studying member of the APPI and a founder of Lacanian Affinities Berlin (laLAB). His latest book on the subject of the psychoanalysis of autism is called The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language, where he presents a novel account of autistic subjectivity from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective.

• About Leon and his experience as an analyst 
• About why he did the work to write the book
• The argument (i.e. the point) of the book
• The history of autism as a psychosis & as a way of being-in-the-world
• Neurosis, psychosis, autism, & the Name-of-the-Father
• Who the book is written for

Extras:

For those who are interested in hearing Leon talk more about psychoanalysis and autism, you can do so by watching this video, or this one.

You can buy Leon's book here. 

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These are the links that can be added to the info:

Dr. Brenner's personal blog and website:
leonbrenner.com

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/leonbrennercom/

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/leonbrennercom

Lacanian Affinities Berlin website:
lacanberlin.com

The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language:
https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030507145

Recommended works by autistic writers and artists:
Baggs, A. [silentmiaow] (2007, January 15). In my language. [Video File]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/JnylM1hI2jc

Grandin, T. (2006). Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism. New-York: Vintage.

Sinclair, J. (1993). Don’t Mourn for us. Our Voice. Autism Network International. Retrieved from http://www.autreat.com/dont_mourn.html

Tammet, D. (2007). Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant. London: Hodder & Stoughton.

Williams, D. (2015). Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism. Portland: Broadway Books.

INTRO:

On this episode of InForm:Podcast Neil & Jared sit down and talk with Ryan Engley from the Why Theory Podcast about ordinary psychosis and the classroom as a psychoanalytic space. 

REFERENCES: 

• T.R. Johnson's book "The Other Side of Pedagogy" (Amazon) 
• Some info on Ordinary Psychosis (Text 1, Text 2, Text 3, Text 4, Text 5) 
• Bruce Fink's book "A Clinical Introduction to Lacanain Psychoanalysis: Theory & Technique" (Amazon) 
• Heathers (IMDB) 
• 1408 (IMDB) 
• Jacob's Ladder (IMDB)
• Intimate Strangers (IMDB, Prime Video)

Intro:
On this episode, Neil & Jared talk about the similarity & difference between clinicians (i.e. licensed mental health people) and psychoanalysts.

Content: 

• Clinicians
• Analysts
• Psychoanalytic Politics by Sherry Turkle 
• American's desire to make an analysis understandable 
• To understand analysis is to misunderstand it
• To resist analysis is to understand it

INTRO:
Freud discovered that dreams were the "royal road to the unconscious," and he used dreamwork as an integral aspect of psychoanalytic practice. However, in recent years dreamwork has become far less utilized in psychotherapies.

In this episode of InForm:Podcast Neil & Jared talk about some ways to do dreamwork -- the use of dreams in psychoanalysis / psychotherapy to get at truths that are important but hidden.

CONTENTS: 

• Why do dream work
• "Self-supporting semantic webs" 
• The ego v. The subject 
• Dreams as "random firing neurons" 
• (Some name drops here and there...) 
• Manifest content / Latent content 
• The subject of the statement / The subject of the enunciation 
• Tell me the ream two times 

INTRO:
The conclusion of the series on psychoanalysis politics and discord servers. In this episode, Adam from the Red Library podcast joins us to wrap up the discussion.

WARNING:
Wes have marked this episode as explicit because there are definitely some of those naughty f-bombs in the episode. Additionally, the audio is sometimes not ideal because we had to record outside of our children's regular nap time. I tried to do some minimal editing to help get rid of some of the background kids/family noise but some still made it in. (Sorry about that.)

TOPICS:
We talk about lots of stuff. Here are some of the big ideas in this episode. 

• Imaginary identification
• What is "the left"? 
• The left & universals V. The right & particularity 
• JA Miller & the psychoanalytic school 
• The four discourses, especially the discourse of the hysteric 
• S1 & S2 
• Is psychoanalysis "revolutionary"? 

Intro:
Part two of Neil & Jared's discussion of psychoanalysis and politics. We mainly focus on the question of --is psychoanalysis revolutionary?

Table of contents: 

• Review of the last episode
• Is psychoanalysis revolutionary or “revolutionary”? 
• How might psychoanalysis fit into (or not fit into) political projects? 
• The dangers of imaginary identification.

Want an InForm:Discord server? -- Let us know. 

INTRO:
In this episode of InForm:Podcast Neil & Jared go through questions, comments, criticisms, and concerns regarding psychoanalysis and revolutionary politics.

BACKGROUND:
Neil & Jared both participate on the Discord servers for Red Library & The Regrettable Century. Recently some of the other members of those communities asked some questions about the revolutionary potential (or the lack thereof) of psychoanalysis.

Given that the communication on the discord servers was only text-based we thought it would be interesting & useful to continue working through some of the questions, comments, criticisms, and concerns the original conversation brought up.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 

• Some small talk to get warmed up
• What's Discord?
• Lacan in time
• The shift from Name-of-the-Father (singular) to Names-of-the-Father (plural)
• Capitalism's effect on jouissance
• Our desire is the desire of the Other
• "Enjoy!" as a demand 
• The Lacanian experience of analysis
• Should InForm have its own Discord server? 

WANT A INFORM DISCORD SERVER?
Drop us a line. 

Intro:

In this episode, we set out to talk about the Oedipus Complex... and we do talk about it, but we also end up talking about several other (related?) things a well.

References:
1. Bruce Fink's books 
2. Psychoanalytic Diagnosis by Nancy McWilliams
3. Lacan, Seminar VII
4. Lacan, Seminar XVII
5. Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle
6. Freud, Totem & Taboo
7. Why Theory Podcast 

In this episode we talk about: 

• A summary of episode #030
• Psychoanalysis and insurance
• Psychoanalysis and (so called) "evidence-based practice" 
• Transference 
• The liminal space between session one and really starting psychoanalysis 

We interrupt your regularly scheduled podcast listening to bring you this: Dis/Entangled podcast, a show hosted by the Cat's Meow Jared. On this show, Jared speaks with other social workers about what defines "social work" for them. This particular episode feature Neil, who talks about critical theory, psychoanalysis, and social work, his professional development, and some other sundry things. If the premise of Dis/Entangled sounds interesting to you and you liked this episode in particular, then consider subscribing there as well -- links below! Final note: if you're interested in being on the show, then please shoot Jared an email at [email protected]. He would love to have you!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dis-entangled/id1513290414

https://open.spotify.com/show/4JaN2zXXiyYOF2jjO284vR?si=iOrUfJHDRMCSPHOVqQ0ZAQ

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