The Substance: The Capital and Narcissistic Horror of The Young Beautiful Woman (Or: Where is my Mother?)

We all loved a movie, oh, actually Jack hated it.This is a perfect episode, you should listen to it. Aside from withering take downs of the myriad misreadings of Coralie Fargeat's new movie The Substance, we introduce you to the narcissistic split of the melancholic subject. Beginning with Freud and moving to Melanie Klein, we read this movie as a visceral portrayal of the infantile position that clamors for the good breast while being persecuted by the bad one. Andy discusses the metonymic qualities of the beautiful ideal object, the way the body tries to merge with the sign itself. Sagi, on his new "tender is the heart" kick, speaks about how the absence of the mother or motherhood creates a lack that explains the monstrous psychic desires and impersonality that destroys Elizabeth and Sue.Jake works with Andy on the Pervs R' Us ride, and then ends with a hypothesis via Marx Grudge that the Young Beautiful Woman is an ideal object that stalks us all.Enjoy.