RU220: DR JAMES SMITH ON THE POPULAR SHOW, POLITICS & PSYCHOANALYSIS

Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture · Nov 24, 2022 · 1h 4m

Rendering Unconscious episode 220. Dr. James A. Smith is a literary scholar and political commentator. His literary scholarship focuses on mid eighteenth-century literature, especially the work of Samuel Richardson and the reception of Shakespeare. He also writes about the history of literary criticism and critical theory: in particular the approaches of F.R. Leavis, Walter Benjamin, the British New Left, and the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan. Dr. Smith is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Theory, Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London…