InForm: Nathan Gorelick on psychoanalysis, psychedelics, psychosis, delusions, science, & mysticism

On this episode of InForm: Podcast, Neil talks with Nathan Gorelick about psychoanalysis, psychedelics, psychosis, delusions, science, & mysticism.

The result is a long, hopefully informative conversation.

Nathan is Term Assistant Professor of English at Barnard College in New York. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and he has completed the six-year cycle of the Training Seminar in Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Gifric in Quebec City, Canada. He has published widely on the theoretical and historical intersections of psychoanalysis with diverse topics including ecocide and catastrophe fetishism, psychedelic drugs, Continental philosophy, the Haitian Revolution, Islam and Islamophobia, and the theory of the novel. His first book, The Unwritten Enlightenment, sets out a new theory of the relation between literature, ideology, and the unconscious, and is forthcoming early in 2024 from Northwestern University Press.

REFERENCED DURING THE EPISODE:
1. Žizek video on ideology
2. Freud's -- Future of an Illisuion, Civilization & its Discontents, Moses & Monotheism, Analysis Terminable & Interminable.
3. Otto Rank -- The Trauma of Birth
4. Éric Laurent -- Guiding Principles for Any Psychoanalytic Act
5. The Lacanian Review #7 "Get Real"