Das Ding and the Sopranos by Richard Boothby

[@wadesharp8017]

Thank you for uploading this video, Todd McGowan!

[@1bionic1]

Excellent! Thank you for the presentation to Richard Boothby and to Todd McGowan for inviting him. The connections made between the uncanny and das Ding, and exemplified by Sopranos references, very fresh and helpful.

[@lacanian_lifter]

Thanks for posting this talk. Freud as Philosopher is on my list, along with some Badiou in light of your recent elucidation on Why Theory.

[@TheDangerousMaybe]

Hearing Richard discuss das Ding is always a real treat, Todd! Thanks for this!

[@lacanian_lifter]

Dude I was just reading your articles on the object a and the phallus--indispensable!

[@TheDangerousMaybe]

@@lacanian_lifter Thanks so much for that! I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing if it wasn’t for Todd. His work truly unlocked Lacan for me.

[@pharder1234]

awesome talk, i had no clue that he works at Loyola. It's just a 5 minute walk from where I live! maybe I should give him a visit, see if he has any notes on my manuscript🤣

[@Don_Aman]

Awesome thank you for posting it Todd

[@macguffin8540]

Thanks for the heads up on Richard’s new book.

[@joshglenn8129]

Amazing talk to attend!

[@EMC2Scotia]

That last comment from RB. As noted in reference to the analyst in The Sopranos, is one of the major challenges of doing any form of therapy or analysis. Aside from this, when RB talks about guilt and giving ''ground relative to one's desire'' I did expect Todd to intervene and complicate that, but perhaps there was not enough time available...

[@OH-pc5jx]

on the topic of the theoretical disappearance of das ding: i recently read zizek’s excellent essay “The Seven Veils of Fantasy,” which i get the sense was incredibly important for your work, Todd, especially from a political perspective. as someone in clinical training, i was especially interested in the last section on the traversal of the fantasy. but one thing strikes me as peculiar: this de-subjectivised, pre-fantasmatic position of radical knowledge, drive knowledge, seems very closely associated with the position of the Ding. yet, the Ding is not the concept Lacan returns to when he tries to theorise this knowledge. in particular, the object a *doesn’t* feel adequate to describe it, because what zizek’s describing is closer to the dinglich void of non-being, as opposed to the a’s retreating nothingness/lostness. is this a simple theoretical mistake by lacan, or is it possible that lacan (and boothby &co.) diverge from lacan here?

[@toddmcgowan8233]

As to who's wrong, I don't know (although I do have a view), but I would say that it's a divergence from Lacan on Rick's part, yes.

[@OH-pc5jx]

@@toddmcgowan8233 (a view, you say… 🤔)

[@colesmatteo]

this is how i want to lecture. he put on a master class.

[@aaron.umbarger]

He's really good at lecturing.

[@macguffin8540]

Any thoughts on the libidinally charged bureaucratic processes of the criminal underworld in the John Wick films, particularly the third?

[@toddmcgowan8233]

Haven't seen them, sadly

[@macguffin8540]

@@toddmcgowan8233 Damn, now I am going to have to think for myself 🤣 That story Zizek recounts about the hamster as the fetish that allowed a grieving man to avoid confronting the death of his wife is basically the story of John Wick I think, except its a dog in his case. One of the things that struck me in the third film is the people working in an almost Terry Gilliam Brazil like system (its partial antiquatedness seems part of its appeal) are office workers but covered with tattoos and piercings (whats a Lacanian take on tattoos?), the kind of thing that is sort of frowned on in the usual office settings, almost as if the bodies inhabiting the system are shown as fizzing with enjoyment. Is this too close to the enjoyment of the bureaucratic system itself so that it usually has to be excluded I wonder? It works far too smoothly in the film though, no Buttle/Tuttle mix up here. Fundamentally paranoiac perhaps?

[@andys5141]

Das Bing

[@Jake-eu4ec]

And here I was ready to beg for a Sopranos why theory episode !

[@loona7126]

With the discussion of what it means to be truthful and whether he would be more dishonest if he told Meadow the crimes he commited, I'm wondering, if psychonalasys is possible for Tony. Can he be truthful, in a psychoanalytical sense, withouth directly talking about this part of his life, which is so connected to his symptom?

[@asakatali]

How many people in the audience Todd?

[@toddmcgowan8233]

around 120

[@thomasstewart457]

I haven;t finished watching the Sopranos yet - should I wait until I have to watch this talk?

[@toddmcgowan8233]

No end of the series spoilers, although there are some season 4 spoilers

[@nobumassiah]

tap the rockies

[@eminkuliev2466]

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