The Old Fashioned Breakdown: A Mad Men Podcast oldfashionedbreakdown

When we started on this episode the was a threat of world war, companies were threstening redundancies and ever since there's been an uproar about planned pregnancies.  Good Job we have a fun tv show to let us forget real life, AMIRITE!?In this episode Fola tries not to pretend he understands any academic notions of semiotics and how they relate to not only this episode but Mad Men in general. The guys try to explain the use of metaphor and metonymy in psychology and human perception while  at the same time trying to figure out the true meaning behind Betty eating cold chicken out of the fridge in the dead of night. They try to cover the following subjects.... and more:
Sign, Signifier, Signified
Cuban Missile Crisis
Mimetic Desire
Anyway
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After a week that feels like months have passed Helen and Fola return to try and link The Mountain King to Carl Jung, who was born in the Swiss Alps
They talk about:
Anima/animus, Archetypes, Collective Unconscious, Complex, Individuation, Persona, Shadow, Self and Synchronicity, all explained here
Info on Carl Jung
Heres a video on his thoughts on religion: Carl Jung and Religion - Introduction to the Psychology of Religion
and here's one of the podcasts mentioned at the start of the show, The Archetype of the Good King
they have podcast on all the main concepts
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As a special one off and in celebration of the release of The Sopranos Prequel movie, The Many Saints of Newark (its awesome we don't care what people say), Fola has recorded a special episode of the pod... Enjoy!
Here's the 10 Page (!) Essay he mentioned:
And heres The In at the End Podcast
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Fola and Helen are back after what feels like years to tackle the subject of masculine fantasy, and Fola creates a mini sci-fi trilogy within a Podcast.... you really have to listen to understand what that means.
Fola also has a cold, so he sounds asthmatic.  Helen Stayed awake till the end so, well done her!
PS.. we'll try to do it quicker next episode... Although don't hold us to that
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Fola and Helen are back after Fola has spent weeks try to find something, or more accurately, nothing (i.e. Lack) to say about this episode of Mad Men.  The theme is growing up and what that involves, sounds simple enough right? But no Fola has to make it more complicated.
Also Helen has a cat.
 
This is Lacan's Table of Three Types of Lack that Fola was trying to explain 
Agent
Lack
Object
Real Father
Symbolic Castration
Imaginary Phallus
Symbolic Mother
Imaginary Frustration
Real Breast
Imaginary Father
Real Privation
Symbolic Phallus
 
Helens new friend Elton...

Don't be fooled by any apparent "cuteness" he was sent to ruin podcasts.
 
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Fola in particular was able to use this episode to explore the them of depression and rebirth.. mainly rebirth after part of the audio for the podcast was destroyed. A large topic in this episode is ego drive
https://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/salesman/importance-of-empathy-and-ego-drive-to-become-a-good-salesman/13489
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