Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio.

On today's episode we have back on the show, Professor Todd McGowan, to talk about LeCon

psychoanalysis, its relationship to capitalism, to the left, to Marxism, to French existentialism

and much more.

Todd McGowan is not only a fan favorite but also one of my favorite guests because not

only is he deeply intelligent and very insightful but he's also incredibly entertaining and

genuinely down to earth and funny in a way that makes complicated discussions understandable

and enjoyable.

So you couldn't ask for a better guess to wrestle with something like LeCon.

And of course Todd McGowan has been on the show a couple times already.

He came on for the first time in 2019 to talk about his book, A Mancipation After Hagel,

achieving a contradictory revolution in which we talked about Marxist and Hageleon dialectics,

contradiction, the role of the unconscious, etc.

And then he came back on in 2020 to talk about his book, Capitalism and Desire, The Psychic

Costs of Free Markets, where we had another wonderful discussion about Marxism, psychoanalysis,

Freud, the Death Drive Desire, Black, etc.

And this can be seen as sort of a third installment if you will of the Todd McGowan show coming

on the rev left to share his insights and knowledge.

And of course you don't have to listen to these in any order but if you like this episode

definitely go back and check out those other two if you haven't already and I'll link

to those in the show notes.

So without further ado, here's my fascinating and very entertaining discussion with Professor

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