Why Beau is Afraid | a psychoanalytic perspective

Anxiety is the only emotion that cannot deceive because its object cannot be signified. But can we encounter the object of anxiety in Beau is Afraid? Follow me as I use and abuse Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic theories to conceptualize the cause of anxiety in BIA.

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*Special thanks to Ryan Engley of the "Why Theory" podcast, a valuable resource for anyone approaching psychoanalytic theory from a continental philosophy perspective.

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Jacques Lacan: Seminar X - Anxiety
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Bruce Fink: The Lacanian Subject
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Chapters
00:00 - Intro
01:43 - I. The Big Other: Mona
05:41 - II. The little other: Beau
07:32 - III. The Split Subject
10:44 - IV. The Phallus
18:32 - V. Mona's Desire
26:41 - VI. The Creation of Meaning