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Todd McGowan

Todd McGowan

Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (Columbia University Press, 2019), Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy (Northwestern University Press, 2017), and Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Costs of Free Markets (Columbia University Press, 2016), and other works. icon

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Virtual Roundtable on “The Ego and the Id”

By Elizabeth Lunbeck, Amber Jamilla Musser, & Todd McGowan

Freud’s ideas have long been absorbed by popular culture, but what role do they continue to play in the academy, in the ...

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