Speaking Body

INTRO:
On today's show, Jared & Neil Talk about the process of starting an analysis.

CONTENT:
We talk about the difficulties with finding an analyst, and some of the ways that Lacanian analysts, in particular, have tried to overcome those difficulties. 

We talk about our own experiences of entering into an analysis. 

We also get into a bit about the different discourses, and the idea of the analyst as Socrates. 

Intro:

Today on InForm:Podcast we are lucky enough to talk with super-theorist Todd McGowan.

Content:

We reached out to Todd McGowan and asked if he would be willing to talk about how his experience in analysis (as an analysand) influenced the ways that he thinks, works, and lives. Todd responded to our request and was very generous with his time. (He talked with us for over 90 min!)

In addition to talking about the effects of analysis on Todd's life we also talk about politics, Dashiell Hammett & Raymond Chandler, and a few other fun things.

Links:

Why Theory Podcast (Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud)
Todd's books on Amazon (US, UK, CA)
Todd's writing on Academia.edu 

Intro:
In this episode of InForm:Podcast Neil & Jared talk about the Subject of the Statement & the Subject of the Enunciation.

References: 

• If you have not listened to InForm-027 you might want to listen to that episode before you listen to this one. 
• This wonderful video on the graph of desire from Lacan Online. 
• The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Écrits (Amazon) 
• Formations of the Unconscious: The Seminar of Jacques Laan Book V (Amazon) 

Intro:
Neil and Jared talk about the principle of moving from demand and activating desire in psychoanalysis.

References: 

• The Lacanian Compass 
• A tour of the Graph of Desire from Lacan Online. (Video) 
• The lecture by Kai Hammermister was indeed not online any longer. 
• Hary Guntrip's account of his analysis with Fairbarin & Winnicott. (PDF)  

Intro:
This is an episode where Jared & Neil talk bout how the concept of "self care" is used and misused in contemporary clinical settings.

Just so you know:
Normally the InForm:Podcast is allergic to editing (i.e. we don't edit, we just record and mix, and then post). Rather than seeing this as a flaw, we see it as a feature of the podcast. However, this time we did need to cut out a little bit of dodgy audio. We almost did not release the podcast at all... but in the end (obviously) we decided to release the edited version.

References:
What's Left? Podcast (SoundCloud, Patreon, Apple Podcasts)

INTRO:
In this episode of InForm Neil & Jared talk more about the role of the analyst as a sort of detective of the weird and the eerie.

ROUGH OUTLINE:
Review: Last time we mentioned the role of the analyst is the secretary of the unconscious. Today we will be talking about the role of the analyst as a detective.

Freud has ideas about what makes things in life uncanny, odd, upsetting, etc.

1. The double:
2. The four registers — animism, castration-complex, repetition-compulsion, & omnipotence

Fisher has different ways of describing the uncanny
1. Weird — The presence of something that does not fit in.
- The Other where we don’t want the Other to be.
- Presence
- Unexpected effect
- The symptom

2. Eerie — The absence of something that one expects.
- A lack of the Other where we expect the Other to be.
- Absence
- Unexpected failure
- The gap

Jared’s point — “What is the sense of the weird and eerie during analysis, and what does it mean to both analyst and analysand? It is my assertation that during analysis, the weird acts as a signpost of the unconscious, and the eerie acts as the direction written upon the signpost; that is to say the eerie is the form of the unconscious material indicated by the weird.”

REFERENCES:
1. Freud’s The Uncanny (1919)
2. Mark Fisher, The weird & the Eerie (2017)

Hi

In this episode (the first in a series) Neil & Jared talk about the role of the analyst as a secretary of the unconscious and how this relates to the drive.

A general outline: 

• This is take two (we tried to record earlier, but kids...) 
• We talk about the role of the analyst and psychoanalysis as opposed to a psychotherapist/psychotherapy
• We  talk about the unconscious as "a part of us that has a mind of its own" (again) 
• The unconscious does not exist it insists 
• The idea that if we shut down the unconscious we end up empowering the drive 
• Freud's 1920 Beyond the Pleasure Principle and how it relates to the unconscious & the drive 
• Jered uses the intervention of scansion to put an end to things 

Intro:

First episodes of Seasons 2 of InForm:Podcast! In this season Neil will be joined by Jared, and we will continue to talk about things & stuff in an InFormal but (hopefully!) InFormative way.

What you're hearing is our third attempt to record the show. (The first two did not go all sorts of bad because Neil did not check batteries...)

What are we talking about?

Intro? — InForm:Podcast Season 2.

1. Sex is a deconstructive of identity (not constructive).
— Sexuality?
— Sexual relationship?

2. “There is no such thing as a sexual relationship”
— There is no such thing as a HARMONIOUS sexual relationship.
— If there is harmony the relationship is not sexual.

3. Imaginary VS real.
— The relationship (attachment) is imaginary
— Sexuality is Real
— The sexual relationship is the addition of the real
— this addition of the real leads to a lack of harmony.
— It disrupts (deconstructs) the imaginary identification.

References:
1. Alenka Zupančič, What is Sex?, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2. Jean Laplanche, Freud & the Sexual, The Unconscious in Translation.
3. Thomas Svolos, Twenty-Frist Century Psychoanalysis, New York, NY: Routledge.
4. The Unconscious in Translation (publishing company).