Just in time for Halloween, Abby and Patrick welcome video essayist and scholar Mariana Colín (aka The Morbid Zoo) for a wide-ranging conversation about media, communication, consent, the problem(s) of other minds, and more. What lies behind our fantasies about science, and in what ways can our narratives about new technologies merely reprise old problems – while also creating entirely new ones? What are the limits to what we can imagine, what we can consent to, and what media can represent back to us? If perfect communication and psychic transparency were possible, would that actually be a good thing – or would it be a living nightmare? The three follow these questions by taking up some of Freud’s strangest work – his writing on telepathy – alongside David Cronenberg’s 1981 classic movie Scanners. It’s a wild and rollicking journey that we promise won’t make your head explode (at least not in the literal, bad way).
More Mariana is here:
YouTube: (345) The Morbid Zoo – YouTube
Bluesky: Mariana Colín (@themorbidzoo.bsky.social) — Bluesky
Website: Mariana Colín (Page 1)
References include:
Sigmund Freud, “Psychoanalysis and Telepathy” (1921)
Sigmund Freud, “Dreams and Occultism,” from New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1933)
Claudie Massicotte, “Psychical Transmissions: Freud, Spiritualism, and the Occult”
Maria Pierri, Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Ferenczi, and the Challenge of Thought Transference
Maria Pierri, Sigmund Freud and the Forsyth Case, Coincidences and the Thought-Transmission in Psychoanalysis
Hannah Zeavin, The Distance Cure
Roger Luchurst, The Invention of Telepathy
CS Peirce, “The Fixation of Belief”
Avgi Saketopoulou, Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia
Have you noticed that Freud is back? Got questions about psychoanalysis? Or maybe you’ve traversed the fantasy and lived to tell the tale? Leave us a voicemail! (646) 450-0847
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