Bonus: Psychoanalysis and the Meat-Commodity with Teddy Duncan Jr.
In this episode Claudia talks Teddy Duncan Jr. who departs from the Marxian consideration of the meat-commodity to think about how psychoanalysis, especially Lacanian psychoanalysis, might be useful in understanding human relations with meat. They discuss the interconnections of language, disavowal, symbolism, jouissance, and ‘the Real’ in this discussion.
Book Review
About Teddy Duncan Jr
Teddy Duncan Jr is a professor at Valencia College in Orlando, Florida. Teddy’s academic writing on subjects such as animality, psychoanalysis, pedagogy, and philosophy has been published in Between the Species, Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, the International Journal of Zizek Studies, The Latin American Literary Review, and The Midwest Quarterly. His freelance writing on art, politics, and literature has appeared in publications such as The Observer, Compact Magazine, Document Journal, and Washington Independent Review of Books, among others. His first academic book, Interpreting Meat, was released in late 2024. Get in touch with Teddy Duncan via tduncan15@valenciacollege.edu
Featured:
Interpreting Meat by Teddy Duncan Jr.
Zoological Lacan: A Lacanian Framework for Animality and Humanness by Teddy Duncan Jr.
For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor by Slavoj Žižek
The Sexual Politics of Meatby Carol Adams
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
Powers of Horror by Julia Kristeva
Animal to Edible by Noilie Vialles
Ecrits: A Selection by Jacques Lacan
Animal Rights by Cary Wolfe
“Eat More Chicken” – Chick-Fil-A-Cows Ad Campaign
Thank you to Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics (A.P.P.L.E) for sponsoring this podcast, to Jeremy John for the logo and Gordon Clarke or the bed music. Thank you to Christiaan Menz for his editing work. This podcast is produced and hosted by Claudia Towne Hirtenfelder
