Todd mcgowan biography

BIO

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Courses

• Seminar in Disc and Television: Noir Marx
• Seminar: Hegel's Phenomenology
• Seminar: Buckham Honors Seminar occupy Slavoj Zizek
• Seminar: Lit
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Todd McGowan

Todd McGowan teaches film and critical theory in the English Department at the University of Vermont. He has written books on the intersection of psychoanalytic theory, German Idealism, cinema, and literature. They include The End of Dissatisfaction (SUNY Press, ), The Impossible David Lynch (Columbia University Press, ), and The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan (SUNY Press, ). He was also the co-editor (with Sheila Kunkle) of Lacan and Contemporary Film (Other Press, ). He has written a book on the idea of atemporal cinema and a book on the political implications of psychoanalytic theory. His most recent book, The Fictional Christopher Nolan, analyzes the importance of the lie in Nolan's films. His email address is n@

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Todd McGowan

American philosopher

Todd McGowan (born ) is an American film scholar, philosopher, and professor of English at the University of Vermont where he teaches film and cultural theory. He works on Hegel, psychoanalysis, and existentialism, and the intersection of these lines of thought with the cinema.^[1] McGowan is the author of more than 15 books, editor of Film Theory in Practice series from Bloomsbury^[2] and co-editor of the Diaeresis series at Northwestern University Press with Slavoj Žižek and Adrian Johnston.^[3] McGowan's work has been described as "A Politics of Death Drive".^[4] McGowan cohosts the podcast Why Theory with Ryan Engley.^[5]

Work

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Hegelianism

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In Emancipation After Hegel (), Todd McGowan presents ‘a new radical Hegel’, dispensing with the infamous formula of the dialectic as ‘thesis, antithesis, synthesis’, McGowan maintains that contradiction is not the opposition of an antithesis to a thesis, but occurs when a position follows its own internal logic and exposes its inner division. According to McGowan, Freud's psychoanalytic theory ‘provides a theoretical supplement for Hegel’. By conceptualizing the unconscious, Freud sees subjectivity through a contradiction that