Singularity as Sublimity | A Philosophy Channel
What is this channel, and who am I?
Online philosophy content rarely meets the learning needs of intermediate and advanced viewers. This channel aims to remedy this gap, providing in-depth analyses of primary texts by philosophers and other theorists (e.g., psychoanalytic), and gradually unpacking complex and nuanced arguments influential to the history of ideas.
There are two main series running on this channel:
1) Thought in Motion: The Seminars of Jacques Lacan
2) Back to the Texts Themselves: A Series on Phenomenology
Occasionally, I produce mini-series on specific philosophical texts not part of these two main series
Me: Brian W. Becker
Ph.D. in clinical psychology, M.A. in theology, licensed clinical neuropsychologist, editor-in-chief - Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion, a professor of psychology & associate provost of Mental Health & Well-being at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, author of Evil and Givenness: The Thanatonic Phenomenon (2022)
The Body as Meaning: Merleau-Ponty on Psychoanalysis and Sexuality | Phenomenology of Perception
The Rhizomatic Unconscious | A Thousand Plateaus | Deleuze & Guattari
The Forbidden Good - Das Ding and Psychoanalytic Ethics | Seminar 7 | Lacan
The “I can” of the Body | Phenomenology of Perception | Merleau-Ponty
Das Ding | Seminar 7 | Jacques Lacan
The Habitual Body: Phantom Pain & Repression | Phenomenology of Perception | Merleau-Ponty
Intro to The Ethics of Psychoanalysis | Seminar 7 | Jacques Lacan
Embodied Perception | Phenomenology of Perception | Merleau-Ponty
The Cut and Clinical Structures in Psychoanalysis | Seminar VI | Jacques Lacan
The Phenomenal Field | Phenomenology of Perception | Merleau-Ponty
Attention and Judgment in Perception | Phenomenology | Merleau-Ponty
Merleau-Ponty’s Critique of Empiricism | Phenomenology of Perception
Holiday Disappointment: Symbolic Cutting and Object a | Seminar VI | Jacques Lacan
The Context-Dependent Nature of Sensation | Phenomenology of Perception | Merleau-Ponty
Hamlet’s Neurosis & the Tragedy of Desire | Seminar VI | Jacques Lacan
The Science of Experience - Preface to Phenomenology of Perception | Merleau-Ponty
Being Without Having it - An Analyzed Dream | Seminar VI | Jacques Lacan
Being & Nothingness - An Outline | Jean-Paul Sartre
Existential Psychoanalysis | Sartre | Being & Nothingness
"You're Already Dead": Missing Signifiers & Unconscious Fantasy | Seminar VI | Jacques Lacan
The Facticity of Freedom | Sartre | Being & Nothingness
Che Vuoi? Desire and its Interpretations | Seminar VI | Jacques Lacan
Intersubjective Attitudes | Sartre | Being & Nothingness
The Other of the Other | Seminar V | Jacques Lacan
The Body | Sartre | Being & Nothingness
Obsessional & Hysteric Desire | Seminar V | Jacques Lacan
The Gaze & Being-for-Others | Sartre | Being & Nothingness
Formulas of Desire & the Ego-Ideal | Seminar V | Jacques Lacan
Revolutionary Parallax: Bartleby Politics | Ch 6 of The Parallax View | Zizek
Transcendence & Transcendent Nothings | Sartre | Being & Nothingness