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Dr Todd McGowan is associate professor of film studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016); Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis (2013); and The Impossible David Lynch (Columbia, 2007), among other books.
(The featured image of shops is in the public domain and was taken by Bernard Spragg of NZ.)
Today the show notes will give you details about Atheism for Lent and other info mentioned in the show. PLUS all past SHOW NOTES and SHOW NOTES for February 2017. (Fearfeature photo by Noemî Galera)
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4:30
Pub culture in Ireland and not running from doubts and pain.
(Repression is the term in psychoanalysis)
Sharing in each other’s suffering.
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9:00
JRR Tolkien Eucatastrophe (a good undoing, like the kind that happen in Fairy Stories)
Irish culture / music / art
The 18 foot woman in a dress at IKON. Ravel and unravel.
13:30 Pete’s Memento Mori
Pete’s Happy Reaper jacket pin
Something to remind you of death.
• Pete’s happy reaper memento mori.
• Lack and nothingness has a painful side but there is a way to find a fuel from it for life and living.
The painters called the Dutch Masters featured a theme: Vanity / futility of life.
Pieter Claesz, “Vanitas” (1630)
The authentic, lively and cohesive pub [juxtaposed with] the vacuous and lonely night club.
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