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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/7/26 | Michael Clayton✨ | political thrillernarrative elements+4 | — | Michael Clayton | — | Michael ClaytonTony Gilroy+4 | — | 1h 14m 53s | |
| 5/24/26 | Existentialism Is A Humanism✨ | ExistentialismSartre+3 | — | Existentialism is a HumanismCritique of Dialectical Reason+1 | — | ExistentialismSartre+4 | — | 1h 16m 19s | |
| 5/11/26 | Impossible Professions✨ | psychoanalysisFreud+5 | — | Impossible Professions | — | Freudimpossible professions+6 | — | 1h 20m 31s | |
| 4/26/26 | Avarice✨ | AvariceGreed+4 | — | AvariceAmbition | — | AvariceGreed+5 | — | 1h 14m 04s | |
| 4/13/26 | Ambition✨ | ambitionbranding+3 | — | AvariceSeven Deadly Sins | — | ambitionbranding+3 | — | 1h 11m 16s | |
| 3/29/26 | Transcendental Analytic (Kant's Critique of Pure Reason)✨ | Kantian philosophyTranscendental Analytic+4 | — | Super MetroidKant's Critique of Pure Reason | — | Kantphilosophy+4 | — | 1h 20m 30s | |
| 3/15/26 | Rob Reiner: An Overview✨ | Rob Reinerfilmmaking+3 | — | This is Spinal TapThe Sure Thing+5 | — | Rob ReinerThis is Spinal Tap+5 | — | 1h 28m 22s | |
| 3/2/26 | Transcendental Deduction (Kant's Critique of Pure Reason)✨ | Kant's philosophytranscendental deduction+3 | — | Critique of Pure Reason | — | Kanttranscendental deduction+7 | — | 1h 24m 00s | |
| 2/15/26 | Transcendental Aesthetic (Kant's Critique of Pure Reason)✨ | Kant's philosophyTranscendental Aesthetic+5 | — | Critique of Pure Reason | — | KantTranscendental Aesthetic+6 | — | 1h 14m 17s | |
| 2/1/26 | Superegoic Enjoyment✨ | superegoenjoyment+4 | — | — | — | superegoenjoyment+6 | — | 1h 22m 42s | |
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| 10/26/24 |  Aufhebung (Sublation) | Ryan and Todd work to explain Hegel's central idea of Aufhebung (translated as "sublation"). This unique German term, which means to cancel, to preserve, and to lift up, provides the key for understanding the movement of Hegel's philosophy, but it is also the site for misunderstanding Hegel's project, which the show discusses. | — | ||||||
| 10/14/24 |  Contemporary Horror | Ryan and Todd continue their discussion of the horror film by focusing on the genre since Psycho. They discuss Night of the Living Dead, Carrie, The Shining, The Blair Witch Project, It Follows, and The Substance. Their theorize the modern horror film in relation to the psychoanalytic notion of the death drive. | — | ||||||
| 9/29/24 |  Fredric Jameson | Ryan and Todd pay tribute to the recently deceased theorist Fredric Jameson. They note his deep and wide-ranging contributions to a variety of fields and his unique ability to find something valuable in the object of his critique. | — | ||||||
| 9/16/24 |  Horror Film | Ryan and Todd explore the classical horror film in terms of the antagonism between life and the beyond, inclusive of death. They focus on the films The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Frankenstein, Invisible Man, Godzilla, and Psycho. | — | ||||||
| 9/2/24 |  Heist Film | Ryan and Todd develop their theory of the heist film as a genre, which they see as structured through the opposition between desire and its object. They examine closely Rififi, The Killing, Heat, Ocean's 11, and Inside Man, as well as touching on many other key films of the genre. Hugh Manon's film noir podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0aQXewYjXrMtTjwpJ18rg6 | — | ||||||
| 8/18/24 |  Sports Film | Ryan and Todd explore the genre of the sports film, focusing on important entries in the genre such as Chariots of Fire, Rocky, and Heaven Can Wait, among others. They define this genre through the category of the impossible and discuss the relationship between possibility and impossibility as it plays out in the sports film. | — | ||||||
| 8/4/24 |  New Introductory Lectures | Ryan and Todd discuss what they see as the important moments from Freud's New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis--both its highlights and its lowlights. They explore the role that Freud's 1920 discovery of the death drive plays--or doesn't play--in this work. | — | ||||||
| 7/22/24 |  Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis | Ryan and Todd outline the arguments of Freud's Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis and highlight the key ideas that appear in this work. They also discuss what Freud mentions here that he doesn't address elsewhere. | — | ||||||
| 7/9/24 |  Suture | Ryan and Todd delve into the concept of suture, as first developed by Jacques-Alain Miller. They trace the deformation that it underwent through the history of film studies and examine a few films where we can see the different understandings of suture at work. | — | ||||||
| 6/23/24 |  Extimacy | Ryan and Todd discuss the Jacques Lacan's neologism "extimacy," which first occurs in Seminar VII and then disappears. But they theorize that this concept offers an excellent starting point for grasping Lacan's entire project, despite his own sparse use of it. | — | ||||||
| 6/11/24 |  Prequel | Ryan and Todd explore the prequel as a narrative form. They consider its radical potential and how it might function ideologically. They discuss prequels such as Fire Walk With Me and Better Call Saul. | — | ||||||
| 5/27/24 |  Modernist Novel | Ryan and Todd theorize the modernist novel as a specific literary form, defined not by its time period but by its structural exigencies. They relate this form to the importance of the ending that function as a cut in the narrative movement rather than as a summation of all that has happened, which contrasts it with previous iterations of the novel. | — | ||||||
| 5/11/24 |  Endings | Ryan and Todd explore the problem of the ending, focusing on when and why the ending becomes important in film and television. They discuss the relationship between the ending of life and the ending of a work of art, especially in terms of psychoanalytic thinking. | — | ||||||
| 4/28/24 |  Parallax View | Ryan and Todd analyze Slavoj Zizek's contribution in what may be his magnum opus--The Parallax View. They discuss how he builds on the concept of parallax as originally articulated by Kojin Karatani and its implication for Zizek's understanding of politics. | — | ||||||
| 4/13/24 |  Lacan's Seminar 11: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis | Ryan and Todd unpack Jacques Lacan's most well-known seminar--Seminar XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. In doing so, they focus on Lacan's own exclusion as a starting point and then delve into two concepts that Lacan does not list among the fundamental ones--subjectivity and the objet a. | — | ||||||
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