Freud, Nietzsche and Marx: Rick Roderick's Lecture on The Masters of Suspicion

Roderick on Freud's garrison metaphor from a Civilization and Its Discontents

"Freud compares the conscious mind, in the book I have – I am talking about now, he compares the conscious mind to a garrison. A captured, tiny garrison in an immense city. The city of Rome. With all its layers of history. All its archaic barbarisms. All its hidden avenues. Covered over by civilization after civilization. That’s our mind. That whole thing. But the conscious part of it is that one garrison that’s clear, that holds out in this captured city.

A magnificent metaphor for all the surrounding motives, motivations, motifs, desires, that drive us… that are not philosophical… that cannot, even if we talk to our therapist a long time, all be brought up at once."

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Rick Roderick on The Masters of Suspicion

Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche (the figures named the "masters of suspicion" by the French Philosopher Paul Ricoeur)

This video is 1st in the 8-part series:

The Self Under Siege: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century (1993)

II. Heidegger - The Rejection of Humanism [full length]

III. Sartre - The Road to Freedom [full length]

IV. Marcuse - One-Dimensional Man [full length]

V. Habermas - The Fragile Dignity of Humanity [full length]

VI. Foucault - The Disappearance of the Human [full length]

VII. Derrida - The Ends of Man [full length]

VIII. Baudrillard - Fatal Strategies

Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche: The Masters of Suspicion

Amorous Acts: Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer Theory

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"Amorous Acts" illustrates the value of psychoanalytic theory for comprehending relationships, experiences, art, politics, and all sorts of human interactions. More specifically, it employs psychoanalysis to show how queer theory is operating to effect a non-heterosexist social order. Although the Lacanian subject in Love can only experience his/her self-shattering, Lacan's concept of Love is seen here as politically useful. This study breaks down Lacanian Love into three different forms and tries to unveil the danger, as well as especially the cultural potential, of the most intense of these variations. To arrive at this position, Amorous Acts first works out the meaning of Lacan's "ethics of desire" by analyzing several modern British novels (by E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and Graham Greene), as well as some contemporary films ("Breaking the Waves," "Seventh Heaven," and "Damage") and then by arguing with Zizek through a reading of Kieslowski's film "White." Finally, queer theory as it has been brought into being by Foucault, Halperin, Bersani, Butler, and Edelman is put into relation with Lacan's notion of the authentic act.Queer theory engages Lacan's conception of self-shattering Love to traverse the pernicious fundamental fantasy of heterosexist reproduction.

Introducing Modernism: A Graphic Guide

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Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature – the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the architecture of Le Corbusier, T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland and the avant-garde theatre of Bertolt Brecht or Samuel Beckett. But what really defines modernism? Why did it begin and how long did it last? Is Modernism over now? Chris Rodriguez and Chris Garratt’s brilliant graphic guide is a brilliant exploration of the last century’s most thrilling artistic work – and what it’s really all about.