Psychoanalysis, Liberalism, and Trump – AAP After Dark 3

Always Already Podcast, a critical theory podcast

Join James, John, and Emily for another installment of Always Already After Dark. In this episode we (accidentally?) discuss the Twilight franchise before delving into an Emmett Rensin essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books titled, “The Blathering Superego at the End of History.” We discuss the superego as metaphor, as critique, and as an account of history, while trying to parse out what psychoanalysis can tell us about liberalism’s current predicaments. Is white supremacy the id to liberalism’s superego? How should we understand (and perhaps challenge) the managerial power of liberalism? And how does all this relate to Trump and the Democratic Party? Plus – try to count how many times James says “Hegel” (Hint, it’s a lot)!

Support us on Patreon to help us upgrade our recording equipment. Requests for texts for us to discuss? Dreams for us to interpret? Advice questions for us to answer? Email us at alwaysalreadypodcast AT gmail DOT com. Subscribe on iTunes. Follow us on Twitter. Like our Facebook page. RSS feed here. Thanks to Leah Dion for the intro music, and to B for the outro music. Get the mp3 of the episode here.

Links!

• The LARB article
• The Onion video on queer theory video
• OpenYale lecture on Freud’s psychoanalytic model, by Paul Bloom:
• Arthur Danto’s essay “Hegel’s End-of-Art Thesis”
• “Hegel and Freud: A Comparison” article by Clark Butler
• In Search of Dreamtime by Tomoko Masuzawa

https://alwaysalreadypodcast.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/rensin.mp3

used under a Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) license, by Flickr user onefromrome