Rahul SamEliot Rosenstock is a psychotherapist. He is the senior editor of The Young Freudians magazine, an experimental philosophy and psychology journal that provides ideas on everything from new ideas in psychodynamic therapy to eco-theory. He is the author of Žižek in the Clinic and The Ego And Its Hyperstate. In this episode, we do a Žižekian ideology critique of mental health while discussing Freud through Hegel, hyperpsychology and where psychology went awry.
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Eliot Rosenstock: Žižek in the Clinic, Dialectical Egoism and Self-InterestRahul Sam2024-09-01 | Eliot Rosenstock is a psychotherapist. He is the senior editor of The Young Freudians magazine, an experimental philosophy and psychology journal that provides ideas on everything from new ideas in psychodynamic therapy to eco-theory. He is the author of Žižek in the Clinic and The Ego And Its Hyperstate. In this episode, we do a Žižekian ideology critique of mental health while discussing Freud through Hegel, hyperpsychology and where psychology went awry.
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You can find more of Dr Qureshi-Hurst's work at emilyqureshihurst.com and https://x.com/equreshihurst.
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You can find more of Prof. McGowan's work at https://www.uvm.edu/cas/english/profile/todd-mcgowan
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You can find more of Prof. Adrian Johnston's work at https://philosophy.unm.edu/people/faculty/profile/adrian-johnston.html
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{Reference Links} https://x.com/bayesianboy/status/1805294328249499966 For the paper, message Mel at https://x.com/bayesianboy
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You can find more of Riedl's work at riedlanna.com and https://x.com/AnnaLeptikon.
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You can find more of Andrews' work at mel-andrews.com and https://x.com/bayesianboy
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You can find more of Prof Oppy's work at https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/graham-oppy and https://x.com/OppyGraham
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You can find more of Dr Inês Hipólito's work at https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/ines-hipolito and https://x.com/ineshipolito
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You can find more of Prof. Critchley's work at simoncritchley.org and https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty/simon-critchley/
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