The Old Fashioned Breakdown: A Mad Men Podcast

This episode is all over the place Fola tries to explain Lacans idea of Phantasy and the whole thing resorts to boobs.  Childish.

references

This dictionary does a decent job of explaining everything

https://www.davidbardschwarz.com/pdf/evans.pdf

Anyway

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In this episode Helen and Fola discuss couples and and how they work together.  What they dont discuss is Lacans view on sadism/masochism and how he was quoted saying "There is no such thing as a sexual relationship". Fola is annoyed his missed this as he thinks its clearly what the episode is exploring.

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As we continue to be back, we look at the second episode of of the second season Mad Men and the themes of "What you should do" vs "What you want to do" and by association subjects such as responsibility, conscience, the super ego, temptation and the Lacaninan concept, The Name of the Father are discussed.

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We're Back! 

And looking for more than we're given in the subtext of Mad Men.  In this first episode of the second season we try to link it to Lancan's "The Big Other" as well as Obedience and how that connects to this episode.

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In this final episode of the season Helen and Fola try to tie together the themes we learnt about up until now.

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Sources

Relatively relatable Lacan article

Lacan - The Mirror Stage, The Imaginary, and Social Media (How am I not myself?)

Lacan - The Real

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The final episode of the season.  We made it this far at least.  For this episode Fola and Helen initially ride on the coat tales of the Lessons from the Screen Play crew and look at the differences in how both Pods approach the show.

Helen and Fola also tie this episode to the themes of advertising, structuralism, semitics, paradigm shifts, post modernism AND The Matrix.  Not to mention Jaques Lacans diagram of consciousness. Hope you enjoy it, we did.

Citations 

LFTS: Mad Men — Layers of Meaning 

Episode 44 — Mad Men | Beyond the Screenplay

A Thing Like That Podcast: The Wheel

Episodes #115 - #124 of Philosophize This!

Chapter 4.3: Structuralism, structure and identity

Chapter 4.4: Structuralism, language and world

Lacan, the Phallus, and the Oedipus

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How do you predict who's going to win a presidential election? If you know who's going to win, how do you know? In fact, how do you know what you know? How can you be sure?

Helen and Fola... Well, just Fola really, consider how the 12th episode of Season 1 of Mad Men, deals with epistemology. While Helen considers the role of winners and losers in the episode

Citations:

Episode #051 ... David Hume pt. 1

PHILOSOPHY - Epistemology: Introduction to Theory of Knowledge [HD]

Introduction to Epistemology

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In this episode Helen and Fola try to touch on big ism Feminism. And ambiguity. And responsibility.  All through the frame of self pleasure.

Citations:

Philosophize This: Simone de Beauvoir

Episode #106 ... Simone De Beauvoir - The Ethics of Ambiguity

Episode #107 ... Simone De Beauvoir pt. 3 - Responsibility

The meaning of life according to Simone de Beauvoir - Iseult Gillespie

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Helen and Fola run through the second 3rd of the season.  This episode was recorded just as the Black Lives Matter movement was taking off after the death of George Floyd, so the guys try to tie the shows tackling of inequality to current events.

#BLM

Citations

Utopia is Dystopia

Epictetus - LIFE CHANGING Quotes - STOICISM

Three diagrams Fola shows Helen:

Biloxi Wade-ins

Biloxi wade-ins

Populism explained

Eric Dodson: Heidegger Playlist

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In this episode Helen and Fola analyse Mad Men through the prism of Martin Heidegger's Being in Time and Fola reaches out, in a questionable move, to prove his most outlandish and far fetched theory yet... Still hasn't been proved wrong though....

Citations:

School of Life - Heidegger

What are Hermeneutics?

Sartre on: Bad Faith 

Heidegger  In Twelve Minutes

Eric Dodson: Heidegger Playlist

Philosophize This: Heidegger - Authenticity

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