149 - Jonathan Lear: Free Association and the Fundamental Rule of Psychoanalysis

Jonathan Lear is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Philosophy and at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is also a practicing psychoanalyst. Jonathan’s work focuses on understanding the human psyche both through philosophy—with an emphasis on Aristotle and the ancients—and psychoanalysis. In this episode, Jonathan and Robinson discuss three pinnacles of psychoanalysis: free association, the unconscious, and transference. Jonathan’s most recent book is Wisdom Won From Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (Harvard, 2017).

Jonathan’s Website: https://home.uchicago.edu/~jlear/

Wisdom Won From Illness: https://a.co/d/hxkokCz

OUTLINE
00:00 In This Episode…
00:50 Introduction
03:28 Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
12:29 What Is The Fundamental Rule of Psychoanalysis?
20:02 On Slavoj Žižek and Free Association
25:26 Following Freud
37:55 Transference and Changing One’s Mind
49:22 How the Analyst Listens
01:09:40 Analysis and Contradiction
01:25:44 Dreams and Free-Association
01:34:42 Transference
01:55:12 Who Is Psychoanalysis For?

Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com

Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between. 

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