Barbarian: Why Can't Home Owners and Phallic Mothers Ever Get Along?

In this episode we discuss the new horror film Barbarian. Marx Grudge returns as we think about the horrors of private property, specifically the home and real estate. We reference a blog post by the scholar Jason Read to follow this track, while trying our best to tie the thread of property relations to he other thread that runs through the movie: sexual difference and its constituent violence. These threads did not come together so neatly, maybe that's because Freud has a Marx Grudge just like we do. But at some point we hypothesized that the origin story of the private home requires an act of sexual assualt.