Laurence Arthur Rickels - Videos

Laurence A. Rickels, literary and media theorist, talking about the Devil as a double in science fiction. In this lecture, Laurence A. Rickels discusses the concepts of the father in psychoanalysis, the fetish, DW Winnicott, reality and simulation, Frankenstien, Dracula, the films "Dark City" and "Simulacra 3," psy-fi in relation to propaganda, marketing, Frued, choice, robots, the uncanny, projection, possession, the third person, Adorno, the culture industry, the anal theory of birth, the Wolfman case focusing on reproduction, creation, second nature, artificial worlds, mourning. European Graduate School EGS

Laurence A. Rickels, literary and media theorist, talking about alternative worlds or possible worlds in science fiction. In this lecture, Laurence A. Rickels discusses "Dark City" and "Simulacron-3", "Metropolis," Judge Schreber, aliens, systems theory, inside/outside, California, "Blade Runner," in relation to memory, psychoanalysis, fetish, trauma, Stan Douglas, "Sandman," German cybernetics, Freud, westward expansion, Adorno, Benjamin, Christian fantasy focusing on Philip K. Dick, castration, ghosts, time travel. European Graduate School EGS

Laurence A. Rickels, literary and media theorist, offers a psychoanalytic reading of the beginnings artificial flight in Germany by exploring two German science fiction films, Robert Bramkamp's Prüfstand 7 and Fitz Lang's Woman in the Moon. In this lecture Laurence A. Rickels discusses the V2 rocket, Nazi Germany, Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, Hermann Oberth, Wernher von Braun and psychoanalysis in relation to technology, Heidegger, Judge Schreber, Metropolis and Contact. European Graduate School EGS

Laurence A. Rickels, literary and media theorist talking about the films "The Surrogates" and "The Universal Soldier" in relation to Freud's "Psychoanalysis and the War Neuroses. In this lecture Laurence A. Rickels discusses the double, Judge Schreber, masturbation, science fiction and mourning in relation to mass murder, prosthetics, robots, the culture industry, crypts, fantasy, adolescence, cyborgs, the peace ego/war ego, family systems theory and technology focusing on PTSD, shell shock and trauma. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS

Laurence A. Rickels, literary and media theorist talking about the roots of the psychoanalytic double in German literature and science fiction. In this lecture Laurence A. Rickels discusses Sigmund Freud, Judge Schreber, "Totem and Taboo," Jacques Lacan, the-Name-of-the-Father in relation to spiritualism and the occult, the Sandman, film, projection, the uncanny, Philip K. Dick, Walter Benjamin and Nazi Germany focusing on and mourning, melancholia and Goethe's Faust. European Graduate School EGS

Judith Butler, Avital Ronell and Laurence Rickels talking about Kafka and the collapse of metaphysics. In this lecture, Avital Ronell, philosopher and author, discusses the play of presence and absence, the politics of friendship, the problem of departure and arrival, the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature, and the reciprocity of calling and being called in relationship to Franz Kafka, Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Martin Luther, Michel Foucault and Martin Heidegger focusing on the letter, destiny, Gesicht, history, authority, law, the panopticon, the Event, Abraham, hope, impossibility and laughter. European Graduate School EGS

Avital Ronell, Judith Butler and Laurence Rickels conducting a joint seminar in which they discussed Martin Heideggers essay What is Thinking? and how it relates to Hannah Arendt and her ideas on judgement. They spoke about Arendts feeling of not being welcome in the league of male philosophers and Arendts view that she was a political theorist and therefore public versus Heideggers solitary philosophy. They discussed the ontology of thought, as well as the active creation of ones being through thinking.

Rickels explores Derrida's notion of psychoanalysis as the one institution which addressed suffering and cruelty without recourse to metaphysical or metaphorical comforts. Rickels' section begins at the end of the 1st video.