Hello, and welcome to Overthink, the podcast.
Where two philosophers relate big ideas to everyday life.
I'm David Pena Guzman.
And I'm Ellie Anderson.
Ellie, I want to begin by telling you an amazing story about the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.
Okay.
Lacan was obsessed with cars, with driving, and with speed.
He'd had this fixation with going as fast as he possibly could whenever he was driving a car.
Sounds like me when I was 17.
It sounds like you still, because I've been in a car with you in Los Angeles.
But Lacan, on top of driving really fast, also was obsessed with never stopping at a red light.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Yeah, that's a bridge too far.
Yes.
Like overactive death drive, anybody?
And this became an issue with all of his acquaintances, with his friends, and with his family members, of course.
Now, this tea is coming straight to you from an article that was published in the New York Review of Books by Jameson Webster entitled Riding in Cars with Jacques Lacan, where?
The great title, where the author talks about how anybody who knew Lacan would talk about this as an issue.
It was a problem.