This episode is an interview with Juliet Flower MacCannell, Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and English at UC Irvine, and author of The Hysteric’s Guide To The Future Female Subject  (2000), The Regime of the Brother (1991), Figuring Lacan: Criticism and the Cultural Unconscious (1986 and 2014, reprinted), and with Dean MacCannell The Time of the Sign (1982), as well as of many essays.This third experiment in inviting the interviewee to discuss a work of art that profoundly moved them engages with James Joyce's story "The Dead," first published in 1914 in Dubliners. The episode focuses on the problems of sexual difference and woman that MacCannell examined in her books at the turn of the 21st century, thinking about how they resonate today. Recent essays by MacCannell mentioned in this episode:'Sexual (In)difference in Late Capitalism: "Freeing Us from Sex"' in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexualities From Feminism to Trans*. Edited by Patricia Gherovici and Manya Steinkholer."Why Culture? A psychoanalytic speculation,"  in Reibung und Reizung. Psychoanalyse, Kultur und deren Wissenschaft Insa Härtel (Hg.) https://textem-verlag.de/media/publication-images/9783864852374_leseprobe_01.pdf