Todd McGowan

McGowan, Todd (2026). Self-Sabotage: How We Try Not to Flourish. Polity Press. ISBN   978-1-5095733-7-0.

• McGowan, Todd (2025). The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan. Cambridge Introductions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009300742. ISBN   978-1-009-30072-8.
• McGowan, Todd (2025). Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity. Columbia University Press. doi:10.7312/mcgo21758. ISBN   978-0-231-56180-8. JSTOR   10.7312/mcgo21758.
• McGowan, Todd (2024). Embracing Alienation: Why we Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves. London: Repeater Books. ISBN   978-1-915672-22-3. ^[7]
• McGowan, Todd (2022). Enjoyment Right & Left. New York: Sublation Media. ISBN   979-8-9867884-0-1.
• McGowan, Todd (2022). The Racist Fantasy: The Unconscious Roots of Hatred. New York: Bloomsbury. ISBN   978-1-5013-9280-1.
• McGowan, Todd (2019). Universality and Identity Politics. Columbia University Press. doi:10.7312/mcgo19770. ISBN   978-0-231-55230-1. JSTOR   10.7312/mcgo19770.
• McGowan, Todd (2019). Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution. Columbia University Press. doi:10.7312/mcgo19270. ISBN   978-0-231-54992-9. JSTOR   10.7312/mcgo19270. ^[8]
• McGowan, Todd (2017). Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctv47w7ff. ISBN   978-0-8101-3582-6.
• McGowan, Todd (2016). Capitalism and Desire. doi:10.7312/mcgo17872. ISBN   978-0-231-54221-0.
• McGowan, Todd (2015). Psychoanalytic Film Theory and The Rules of the Game. New York: Bloomsbury. ISBN   978-1-62892-084-0. Translated into Persian ^{[9] [10]}
• McGowan, Todd (2014). Spike Lee. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. ISBN   978-0-252-09540-5. JSTOR   10.5406/j.ctt7zw5f7.
• McGowan, Todd (2013). Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1ddr7nv. ISBN   978-0-8032-4511-2. JSTOR   j.ctt1ddr7nv.
• McGowan, Todd (2012). The Fictional Christopher Nolan. doi:10.7560/737822. ISBN   978-0-292-73783-9.
• McGowan, Todd; Eisenstein, Paul (2012). Rupture: On the Emergence of the Political. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctv43vtq0. ISBN   978-0-8101-6630-1.
• McGowan, Todd (2012). The End of Dissatisfaction?: Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment. SUNY Press. doi:10.1515/9780791485712 (inactive 5 July 2025). ISBN   978-0-7914-8571-2. ^[11] Translated into Japanese
• McGowan, Todd (2011). Out of Time: Desire in Atemporal Cinema. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. doi:10.5749/minnesota/9780816669950.001.0001. ISBN   978-1-4529-4709-9. JSTOR   10.5749/j.cttttprf. ^[12]
• McGowan, Todd (2007). The Impossible David Lynch. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN   978-0-231-13954-0. ^{[13] [14] [15]} Translated into Persian
• McGowan, Todd (2007). The Real Gaze: Film Theory after Lacan. New York: SUNY Press. ISBN   978-0-7914-7039-8. Translated into Turkish, Polish, and Persian.
• McGowan, Todd (2004). The End of Dissatisfaction? Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment. State University of New York Press. ISBN   978-0-7914-5968-3. ^[16]
• McGowan, Todd (2000). The Feminine "No!". doi:10.1515/9780791491065. ISBN   978-0-7914-9106-5. JSTOR   jj.18255528.

Edited

• McGowan, Todd; Kunkle, Sheila, eds. (2004). Lacan and Contemporary Film. New York: The Other Press. ISBN   978-1-59051-084-1. ^[17]
• McGowan, Todd; Zeiher, Cindy, eds. (2017). Can Philosophy Love? Reflections and Encounters. London: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN   978-1-78660-323-4.
• Finkelde, Dominik; Todd, McGowan, eds. (2023). Žižek Responds!. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN   978-1-350-32894-5.

See also

• Psychoanalytic film theory
• Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis

References

1. "Todd McGowan". www.uvm.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-18.
2. "Film Theory in Practice series, Bloomsbury Publishing (US)". www.bloomsbury.com. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
3. "Diaeresis". Northwestern University Press. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
4. Terada, Randall; McGowan, Todd (2014). "A Politics of the Death Drive". American Imago. 71 (1): 89–96. ISSN   0065-860X. JSTOR   26305079.
5. "Why Theory on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. 2024-02-05. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
6. Sembou, Evangelia (December 2021). "Todd McGowan. Emancipation After Hegel. Achieving A Contradictory Revolution. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. ISBN: 978-0-231-19270-5 (hbk). Pp. 270. £25" . Hegel Bulletin. 42 (3): 472–475. doi:10.1017/hgl.2020.10. ISSN   2051-5367.
7. Newton, Len (2025-01-29). "Todd McGowan - Embracing Alienation [Review]". The Englewood Review of Books. Retrieved 2025-12-30.
8. Services, University of Chicago IT. "Critical Inquiry". criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2025-12-30.
9. "Todd McGowan's "Psychoanalytic Film Theory" published in Persian". Tehran Times. 2022-10-03. Retrieved 2025-12-30.
10. Behnegarsoft.com (2021-07-04). "'Psychoanalytic Film Theory and The Rules of the Game' available | IBNA". Iran's Book News Agency (IBNA). Archived from the original on 2023-10-16. Retrieved 2025-12-30.
11. Johnston, Adrian (2005). "Review of The End of Dissatisfaction?: Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment". South Atlantic Review. 70 (1): 165–169. ISSN   0277-335X. JSTOR   20462740.
12. Niessen, Niels (2013). "Review of OUT OF TIME: DESIRE IN ATEMPORAL CINEMA". Cultural Critique. 83: 156–162. doi:10.5749/culturalcritique.83.2013.0156. ISSN   0882-4371. JSTOR   10.5749/culturalcritique.83.2013.0156.
13. Sinnerbrink, Robert (2007). McGowan, Todd (ed.). "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lynch But Were Afraid to Ask Lacan". South Atlantic Review. 72 (4): 128–132. ISSN   0277-335X. JSTOR   27784743.
14. Wilson, D. Harlan (2007). "Review of The Impossible David Lynch". Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. 18 (2 (70)): 279–281. ISSN   0897-0521. JSTOR   24350998.
15. "Review: The Impossible David Lynch , by Todd McGowan". Film Quarterly. 62 (3): 84–85. 2009-03-01. doi:10.1525/fq.2009.62.3.84. ISSN   0015-1386.
16. Johnston, Adrian (2005). "Review of The End of Dissatisfaction?: Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment". South Atlantic Review. 70 (1): 165–169. ISSN   0277-335X. JSTOR   20462740.
17. • Abel, Marco (2006). McGowan, Todd; Kunkle, Sheila (eds.). "Own Your Lack!: New Lacanian Film Theory Encounters the Real in Contemporary Cinema". South Atlantic Review. 71 (1): 132–140. ISSN   0277-335X. JSTOR   20064710.

Todd McGowan
Born	(1967-10-09) October 9, 1967 (age 58) Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
Academic background
Education	Ohio State University (PhD)
Thesis	The Empty Subject: The New Canon and the Politics of Existence  (1996)
Doctoral advisor	Walter A. Davis
Influences	Slavoj Žižek

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