Summary: The guest this week is the cultural critic Mark Dery whose newest book of essays is entitled I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts and is out from the University of Minnesota Press. This is the second half of our conversation and this week we discuss Facebook, the 70s, and the psychedelic guru Terence McKenna. I want to thank Tracy V and Ted F for joining up for the Diet Soap Philosophy Workshop. When you subscribe to donate to the podcast once a month you also get to join in on a weekly conversation about Hegel's Phenomenology and subscribers and donors both receive copies of either my novella "Wave of Mutilation" or my radical memoir "Pick Your Battle." You can find the subscribe and donate buttons on my website, that's douglaslain.com or at dietsoap.podomatic.com. I should also ask you to follow me on twitter, find me on Facebook, stumble upon me on stumble upon, tumbler for me, take a pinterest in me, link to me in linked in, plus me, and finally invade my space (remember my space?) The music in the podcast includes Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 2, the Bee Gee's Stayin Alive, and Uncle Bonsai's Penis Envy. --- Definition of the term "phallic mother" from answers.com The so-called phallic mother is a mother who is fantasmatically endowed with a phallus. Among the male child's earliest sexual theories, he believes that all people have the male genital. By substituting the phallus for the organ that the child thinks the female is lacking, he tries to protect himself from the castration anxiety that arises from the primal fantasies of the mother. The fear of the phallic mother imago tacitly affirms the threat of castration, while at the same time defensively negating it along with all its oral and anal pregenital foundations. A theory of the phallic mother existed in Sigmund Freud's work from his earliest formulations on the sexual theories of children (1905d, 1908c), and it played a constant role throughout later developments regarding the questions of feminine castration and the maternal penis (1909b, 1910c, 1923b). From 1905 to 1927, these questions were structured by the continuing Freudian exploration of fetishism. The fetishist fears castration excessively, and finds protection from it in a chosen object that serves as an equivalent for the maternal phallus. Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/phallic-mother#ixzz1vnwjvsKD
