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VOICEOVERThe Planetary Father Function In reading the seat of the father in Freud’s science as a construction of analysis, Rickels provides a summary of his theory of unmourning and the psychotic break. The lecture closes on the transportable therapy setting that stabilized the break for performance artist Yakoi Kusama and performer Brian Wilson.2021 Author Laurence Rickels Sound engineer Jochen Jezzusek In VOICEOVER, film material is recommended for watching while listening to the lecture. Don’t Look Now (1973) should be muted while viewing. 2021-02-2023 min
VOICEOVERThe Road Belong SavvyRickels returns to the Melanesian Cargo Cult, a mainstay of Aberrations of Mourning, to interpret the other term for what is at stake in Cargo: Savvy. While Cargo is carried by their ancestors, the Melanesians ascribe Savvy to the living. In the course of the Second World War, America replaces Europe and Australia on the Melanesian horizon. The Melanesians would have noted that Black Americans were in the US military. The Savvy ascribed to Americans (notably in the Johnson Movement) reflects the copresence of Blacks and amounts to a reading of American hipness as dependent on Black Savvy. The...2021-02-1929 min
VOICEOVERKohutHeinz Kohut on narcissistic rage meets Erika Kohut in Elfried Jelinek’s Die Klavierspielerin and, in Michael Haneke’s La Pianiste, as interpreted by Isabelle Huppert. Jelinek’s inheritance of post-WWII Austrian language pessimism is examined as a narcissistic disorder symptomatized in the life and work of Walter Poppelreuter. Closer to home Ulrike Ottinger treated the symptom picture in her direction of Jelinek’s play Begierde und Fahrerlaubnis. Jelinek’s masterpiece Kinder der Toten was the reward of recovery from the narcissism of unmouring the mother tongue.2021 Author Laurence Rickels Sound engine...2021-02-1936 min
VOICEOVERSPECTREIan Fleming introduced the organization SPECTRE into the world of James Bond late in his game. He was preparing the crossover of his Cold War espionage fiction from literature into film, and the medium of projection became the author’s outside chance for a final reckoning with his opportunism. SPECTRE is a true underworld in which all the figures from the Cold War’s recent past – World War Two – are back, surprise attack, upsetting the deep freeze opposition that denied both the perpetrators and the victims the love that was once live. Fleming reverses the denial of the recent past and...2021-02-1935 min
VOICEOVERSatan & Golem, Incorporated Rickels follows the Golem as legend to the mapping of cybernetics and science fiction between the Devil and the Death Drive. Can there be thought without a body? Yes, but without the unconscious fantasy we tend to dismiss as sexual difference we are a foregone conclusion – forgone! forgone!2004Author Laurence Rickels Sound engineer Jochen Jezzusek In VOICEOVER, film material is recommended for watching while listening to the lecture. Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920) should be muted while viewing. 2021-02-1944 min
VOICEOVERLeitmotif Siegfried (2015)Rickels tracks the career of Walter Benjamin's review-swap friend, psychoanalyst Alexander Mette, who remained in Berlin during the Third Reich. But when Mette tried continuing to pitch work on Dionysus and Apollo it was tossed in 1934. He reworked his language in the Romantic gobbledyspook mode of the Nazi talking heads, publishing studies of contemporary dream books and the Dionysian clown, which between the lines, however, give a record of decisive changes altering psychic reality in record time.In VOICEOVER, film material is recommended for watching while listening to the lecture. ....Beach Blanket Bingo, William...2020-08-1548 min
VOICEOVERFrom Here to California (2011)Rickels follows out the postwar career of Wernher von Braun and his V2 rocket as caught on Disney TV. Because Nazi Germany can be seen as the first realization of science fiction, which reached a highpoint in films by Fritz Lang, the genre had to start over again as a postwar American exclusive. But repressed German science fiction was lurking in the margins before returning in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and the redesign of Tomorrowland. P.K. Dick's The Simulacra augured the return of repressed German science fiction and the prospect it carried forward of collective mourning....2020-08-1538 min
VOICEOVERArrival Time(2018)Through Gotthard Günther's probing of American science fiction for the beginnings of a new metaphysics, Rickels folds out the Enlightenment vision of life after death as enrollment in continuing education programs on the outer planets. A new secular afterlife that arrives from outer space in the 2016 SF movie Arrival orbits this Enlightenment introject. But the looping of time cannot elide wishing upon the stars -- and our second nature as daydreamers keeps our No's to the grind of unmourning.In VOICEOVER, film material is recommended for watching while listening to the lecture. ...A...2020-08-1538 min
VOICEOVERTrace Against Time (2012/2018)Rickels excavates a sister's crypt in the Picasso corpus, finding a way there illuminated by Henri-George Clouzot's 1956 film The Mystery of Picasso. But it was Clouzot's earlier film, Les Diaboliques, that convinced the artist that this director commanded the science fiction and the fantasy of a wish to watch out for.In VOICEOVER, film material is recommended for watching while listening to the lecture. ...Les Diaboliques, Henri-Georges Clouzot (1955)Begin with the scene of the schoolmaster's drowning.The film should be muted while viewing. Hosted on...2020-08-1537 min
VOICEOVERAll You Vampires (2017)Rickels narrates the vampire's arrival in the new world inside science fiction. The science fictionalization of the vampire massified undeath through the epidemic of living death. Swarms of zombies crowding out the old-world aristo-vampire offer shooting practice for putting to rest what is already at rest. Science fiction counts down through two deaths, moving resolutely past the deferral position of a first life after death in vampirism to the zombie's second death, which secures the innovations of survival. But while relying on the compass of travel across space and time the decision for survival is easier made than reached.2020-08-1538 min
Emancipations PodcastEpisode 14: Interview with Laurence RickelsHistory repeating itself again, life on other planets, science fiction, vampires?! Is this an episode of the twilight zone? No, it’s Jouissance Vampires, back at it again, this time in an interview with Laurence Rickels, literary and media theorist and author of Psychoanalysis as well as the upcoming work Critique of Fantasy.
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Good Mourning, Nancy PodcastEp. 34: Near Dark (1987) - Finger Lickin' Good!Bullseye! This week Gracie & Abbey discuss the most underrated American vampire film! Near Dark, even over 30 years later, is still eerily relevant to this day. Hatred against the "other," father's of the night and day, toxic masculinity, and women trying to survive in a patriarchal society (vampire or otherwise) are among some of the talking points.
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Near Dark (1987). dir. Kathryn Bigelow
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New Books in PsychoanalysisLaurence A. Rickels, “The Psycho Records” (Wallflower Press, 2016)Reading Laurence Rickels‘ The Psycho Records (Wallflower Press, 2016) gave me the urge to ask random strangers questions like: Are you haunted by Alfred Hitchcock’s famous shower scene? How do you feel about Norman Bates and other cinematic killers pathologically attached to their mothers? Does the thought of Anthony Perkins impersonating his dead mother and stabbing Janet Leigh make you uncomfortable and scared? Induce an uncanny sensation? Or does it seem dated, campy, even comical? Rickels is interested precisely in these vicissitudes of the primal shower scene–what he calls the “Psycho Effect”–as it is taken up and therapeutica...2017-03-2154 min
New Books in FilmLaurence A. Rickels, “The Psycho Records” (Wallflower Press, 2016)Reading Laurence Rickels‘ The Psycho Records (Wallflower Press, 2016) gave me the urge to ask random strangers questions like: Are you haunted by Alfred Hitchcock’s famous shower scene? How do you feel about Norman Bates and other cinematic killers pathologically attached to their mothers? Does the thought of Anthony Perkins... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/film2017-03-2154 min
Skylight Books Podcast SeriesLAURENCE RICKELS DISCUSSES HIS NEW BOOK THE PSYCHO RECORDSThe Psycho Records (Wallflower Press)
Skylight Books and Villa Aurora are proud to present Laurence A. Rickels, reading from his newest book The Psycho Records.
The Psycho Records follows the influence of the primal shower scene within subsequent slasher and splatter films. American soldiers returning from World War II were called “psychos” if they exhibited mental illness. Robert Bloch and Alfred Hitchcock turned the term into a catch-all phrase for a range of psychotic and psychopathic symptoms or dispositions. They transferred a war disorder to the American heartland. Drawing on his experience with German film, Hitch...2017-02-281h 00
RhetoricityThe Outer Limits of Psychoanalysis: An Interview with Laurence RickelsIn February, Laurence Rickels stopped by Austin, Texas. Dr. Rickels, who is the Sigmund Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School as well as Professor of Art and Theory at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, Germany, was in town as part of the tour for his latest book: Germany: A Science Fiction. During his visit, he also swung by UT-Austin's Digital Writing and Research Lab and was generous enough to sit down for the following interview.In his new book, Rickels focuses on psychopathy as, quote, "the undeclared diagnosis implied in flunking the em...2015-05-0531 min
Hörspiel PoolEva Meyer/Eran Schaerf: FlashforwardMit Elfriede Jelinek, Laurence Rickels, Hinrich Sachs, Inga Svala Thorsdottir, Suchan Kinoshita, Mitja Tusek / Komposition: noto aka carsten nicolai / Regie: Eva Meyer/Eran Schaerf / BR/intermedium/Haus der Kunst München 2004 / Länge: 55'37 // Es beginnt mit einem Missverständnis, durch das Möglichkeit auf Vergangenheit fällt. Ohne zu wissen, was es war, wissen wir doch, wie etwas gesagt, gehört, gesehen wurde, eine Liebesgeschichte oder ein öffentliches Ereignis. Davon geht ein Programm aus, das flashbacks in flashforwards konvertiert. Zwischen Gedächtnis und Hoffnung hält es einen Platz frei und sucht dafür eine Stimme. Ist es ein Zeuge, ein...2009-09-1855 min