InForm: Nathan Gorelick on psychoanalysis, psychedelics, psychosis, delusions, science, & mysticism

About this episode

Neil talks with Nathan Gorelick about the intersections of psychoanalysis, psychedelics, and mysticism.

On this episode of InForm: Podcast, Neil talks with Nathan Gorelick about psychoanalysis, psychedelics, psychosis, delusions, science, & mysticism. The result is a long, hopefully informative conversation. Nathan is Term Assistant Professor of English at Barnard College in New York. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and he has completed the six-year cycle of the Training Seminar in Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Gifric in Quebec City, Canada. He has published widely on the theoretical and historical intersections of psychoanalysis with diverse topics including ecocide and catastrophe fetishism, psychedelic drugs, Continental philosophy, the Haitian Revolution, Islam and Islamophobia, and the theory of the novel. His first book, The Unwritten Enlightenment , sets out a new theory of the relation between literature, ideology, and the unconscious, and is forthcoming early in 2024 from Northwestern University Press. REFERENCED DURING THE EPISODE: 1. Žizek video on ideology 2. Freud's -- F uture of an Illisuion , Civilization & its Discontents , Moses & Monotheism , Analysis Terminable & Interminable. 3. Otto…

People in this episode

Guest: Nathan Gorelick

Topics covered

• psychoanalysis
• psychedelics
• psychosis
• delusions
• science
• mysticism

Keywords

• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
• Comparative Literature
• ecocide
• catastrophe fetishism
• Continental philosophy
• Haitian Revolution
• Islam
• Islamophobia
• theory of the novel

Mentioned in this episode

Products: The Unwritten Enlightenment

Books & works: The Unwritten Enlightenment, The Trauma of Birth, Get Real

Places: New York, Quebec City, Canada

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