Laurence A. Rickels, literary and media theorist, talking about traumatic loss, fetish, and early airplane flight in Germany. In this lecture Laurence A. Rickels discusses Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, gadget-love, technology, forgetting and memory, Melanie Klien, in relation to substitution, the couple, castration, dislocation, Donald Winnicott in relationship to Charles Darwin, evolution and airplanes. European Graduate School EGS