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Why Theory — 218 episodes

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Title
1

Impossible Professions

2

Avarice

3

Ambition

4

Transcendental Analytic (Kant's Critique of Pure Reason)

5

Rob Reiner: An Overview

6

Transcendental Deduction (Kant's Critique of Pure Reason)

7

Transcendental Aesthetic (Kant's Critique of Pure Reason)

8

Superegoic Enjoyment

9

Structural Violence

10

Pluribus

11

Millennium Christmas

12

The Episode

13

Lacan's Seminar 19: ...or Worse

14

Lacan's Seminar 18: On a Discourse...

15

Voice

16

Gaze

17

Robert Redford

18

The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

19

1844 Manuscripts

20

The End of History

21

Top Ten TV Series of the 21st Century

22

Top Ten Films of the 21st Century

23

The Musical

24

Common Sense

25

On Narcissism

26

Group Psychology

27

Racecraft

28

A.I.

29

Slavoj Žižek: An Overview

30

Euphemism

31

The Symptom

32

The Public

33

Embracing the Void

34

Lacan's Seminar 16: From an Other...

35

David Lynch

36

Seminar X: Anxiety

37

Lesbian Christmas

38

Hegelian Praxis

39

The Beautiful Soul

40

Hegel & Feminism

41

Aufhebung (Sublation)

42

Contemporary Horror

43

Fredric Jameson

44

Horror Film

45

Heist Film

46

Sports Film

47

New Introductory Lectures

48

Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

49

Suture

50

Extimacy

51

Prequel

52

Modernist Novel

53

Endings

54

Parallax View

55

Lacan's Seminar 11: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis

56

Lacan's Seminar 7: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis

57

Critique Of Pure Reason -- Introduction

58

Blue Velvet

59

Critique Of Pure Reason -- Preface

60

Symbolic Castration

61

Dialectical Reversal

62

Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations

63

Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

64

1980s Christmas

65

Discourse on Method

66

Envy

67

Science Fiction Cinema

68

Monadology

69

The Prince

70

Surplus Enjoyment

71

Surplus Value

72

Oppenheimer

73

Barbie

74

Creative Writers & Daydreaming

75

Uncanny

76

Poststructuralism

77

Tribute to Mari Ruti

78

Succession

79

Bottle Episode

80

Beyond Good and Evil

81

The Racist Fantasy

82

Twitter

83

The Radical Western

84

Western

85

Critique of Dialectical Reason

86

Analysis Terminable & Interminable

87

Negation

88

Being and Nothingness Side B

89

Being and Nothingness Side A

90

Misfit Christmas

91

Debt

92

Enjoyment Right & Left

93

Technology

94

Love

95

Badiou

96

Event

97

Neurosis

98

Hegel's Absolute Knowing

99

Hegel's Religion

100

Screwball Comedy

101

Mourning and Melancholia

102

Wild Psychoanalysis

103

Abortion Theory

104

Quilting Point

105

Lacan's Seminar 3: The Psychoses

106

Hamlet

107

Streaming

108

The Woman Doesn't Exist (Aphorism 8)

109

Film Noir

110

Dualism & Multiplicity

111

Mystic Writing Pad

112

Beyond the Pleasure Principle

113

Superhero Film

114

Hegel's Spirit

115

Metalanguage (Aphorism 7)

116

The Christmas Film

117

Casablanca

118

Retroactivity

119

Id

120

Ego

121

Superego

122

Dialectic of Enlightenment

123

Introduction to Biopower

124

Heidegger and Hegel

125

Breaking Bad

126

Twin Peaks The Return

127

Four Discourses

128

Read My Desire, Pt. 3: Sex, Difference, Relation

129

Read My Desire, Pt. 2: Democracy, Anxiety, Film Noir

130

Graduate School

131

Read My Desire, Pt. 1: Gaze and Excess

132

Sublime Object of Ideology

133

Alexandre Kojeve

134

Psychoanalysis & Narrative

135

Alienation

136

Hegel's Reason

137

Feminism & Psychoanalysis with Mari Ruti

138

Screen Memories

139

Civilization and Its Discontents

140

Jouissance

141

Lacan's Seminar 2: The Ego in Freud's Theory...

142

Domestic Terrorism

143

Tenet

144

Popular Music

145

German Idealism

146

Hegel's Self-Consciousness

147

Election Special

148

Deleuze after Guattari

149

Deleuze Before Guattari

150

Deleuze with Guattari

151

Imaginary

152

Symbolic Order

153

The Real

154

Lacan's Seminar 1: Freud's Papers on Technique

155

Aura

156

Competing Universalities

157

Interpassivity

158

Big Other (Aphorism 6)

159

Capitalism & Racism

160

Hegel's Consciousness

161

Oedipus Complex

162

Missing Signifier

163

Zaddy Fascism

164

Penis Envy

165

Coronavirus and Its Discontents

166

Unconscious (Aphorism 5)

167

Kant and Freedom

168

Mirror Stage

169

New Materialisms

170

Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics

171

objet a

172

Psychoanalysis and Existentialism

173

Hegel and Race

174

Defending Freud (side B)

175

Defending Freud (side A)

176

Psychoanalysis and Capitalism

177

Psychoanalysis and Disability

178

Mad Men

179

Incels, Misogyny, and Castration

180

Signifier Vs. Sign (Aphorism 4)

181

Contradiction

182

An Afternoon with Slavoj Zizek -- Hegel

183

An Afternoon with Slavoj Zizek -- Lacan

184

An Afternoon with Slavoj Zizek -- Marx

185

Immediacy

186

A Signifier for the Left

187

Us

188

Cynicism (Aphorism 3)

189

Conspiracy Theories

190

Sexuation (Aphorism 2)

191

Ethics of Psychoanalysis (Aphorism 1)

192

Psychoanalysis and Racism

193

Preface to Hegel's Phenomenology

194

Secular Morality

195

Theoretically Christmas (side B)

196

Theoretically Christmas (side A)

197

(Neo)liberalism

198

Das Ding

199

Rupture

200

Surveillance, Punishment, Crime

201

Dialectics

202

Desire & Drive

203

Political Enjoyment

204

Master Signifier

205

The Universal and The Particular

206

Where to Start 3: Heidegger, Badiou, Agamben, Butler, Derrida

207

Sports: Ideology, Enjoyment, Contradiction

208

Where to Start 2: Hegel, Marx, Fanon, Deleuze, Foucault

209

Where to Start 1: The Psychoanalytic Theorists

210

CGI, Anxiety, The Last Jedi

211

The Oscars in 2018 and Beyond

212

Ideology

213

Seriality

214

Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be

215

Fake News

216

LACK 2017: Social Tie, Universality, Plus, Arrival

217

Blade Runner 2049

218

Theories of Comedy