Hello everyone! You're still here?!
This podcast we're discussing and dissecting Tiger, a 2021 HBO mini-series about the rise and Fall of Tiger Phallus.. sorry, I mean Tiger Woods.
Tiger's superhuman abilities are analyzed from an Oedipus Complex angle, leading us to speculate about how Earl (and his wife) had tweaked its mechanism to create the perfect golfing machine; the kind that plays golf in a manner closer to that of a machine or a person in the throes of a PTSD symptom. Something similar can be said of his "womanizing," another repetition of the/his father (but Jake disagrees, the nerve).
The golf club appears as the ultimate magic wand in this unholy alchemy, as we likened it to the phallic wedge which, in one of Lacan's analogies, keeps open the jaws of the crocodile (symbolizing the mother's desire). Of course, in his symptomatic identification with the club, with the game, with the drive(r), Tiger achieves both security and emptiness/alienation.
We tried to keep this one civilized, but you know how it is, someone says Freud and then it's just a penis joke away from the Patriarchy swamp...
The Stars that were tossed this time were Pervs 'R Us and Beast and Sovereign.
