Hyperreality and Psychoanalysis
Recently I gave a talk at the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS). It was an attempt to do a post-modern Marxist reading of The Sopranos (don't laugh just yet). For the most part these conferences devoted to Television are sorry excuses for serious intellectual work as professors are sitting around talking about the last episode of Seinfeld as "An Event" which I personally think cheapens the concept of Event, but I digress.
Interestingly enough, one of the members of the audience asked a really great question about Psychoanalysis becoming Hyperreal. She said that at an APCS Conference a few years ago the keynote address was given by the actress who played Dr. Melfi, the psychiatrist (or maybe she's a psychologist?) on the Sopranos. The audience member's point was that the Hyperreal, the mass-produced represented, mediated, depiction of Pyschoanalysis has become widely accepted as a truthful interpretation of Psychoanalysis, actually supplanting Freud, Jung, and Lacan. There is also a new show on HBO (which happens to have a slew of excellent shows I might add) called In Treatment that seems to make her point!
I was wondering if any of you cared to comment, or take a Deleuzian approach to the question of understanding, perhaps critiquing Psychoanalysis as it may have become (or is becoming) Hyperreal... any ideas?
Interestingly enough, one of the members of the audience asked a really great question about Psychoanalysis becoming Hyperreal. She said that at an APCS Conference a few years ago the keynote address was given by the actress who played Dr. Melfi, the psychiatrist (or maybe she's a psychologist?) on the Sopranos. The audience member's point was that the Hyperreal, the mass-produced represented, mediated, depiction of Pyschoanalysis has become widely accepted as a truthful interpretation of Psychoanalysis, actually supplanting Freud, Jung, and Lacan. There is also a new show on HBO (which happens to have a slew of excellent shows I might add) called In Treatment that seems to make her point!
I was wondering if any of you cared to comment, or take a Deleuzian approach to the question of understanding, perhaps critiquing Psychoanalysis as it may have become (or is becoming) Hyperreal... any ideas?