The Old Fashioned Breakdown: A Mad Men Podcast

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 Get in touch with us, rate and subscribe, we'd love to read your thoughts on either our show, or The show Mad Men.  And lets us know if you want a Patreon Instagram = https://www.instagram.com/oldfashionedbreakdown/ Email = [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/breakdown_old Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oldfashioned.breakdown.5 Reddit https://www.reddit.com/user/Old_Fashioned_Break

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 Anyway Get in touch with us, rate and subscribe, we'd love to read your thoughts on either our show, or The show Mad Men.    Instagram = https://www.instagram.com/oldfashionedbreakdown/ Email = [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/breakdown_old Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oldfashioned.breakdown.5 Reddit https://www.reddit.com/user/Old_Fashioned_Break

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 Anyway Get in touch with us, rate and subscribe, we'd love to read your thoughts on either our show, or The show Mad Men.    Email = [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/breakdown_old Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oldfashionedbreakdown/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oldfashioned.breakdown.5 Reddit https://www.reddit.com/user/Old_Fashioned_Break  

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 Anyway Get in touch with us, rate and subscribe, we'd love to read your thoughts on either our show, or The show Mad Men.    Email = [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/breakdown_old Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oldfashioned.breakdown.5 Reddit https://www.reddit.com/user/Old_Fashioned_Break

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.   Anyway Get in touch with us, rate and subscribe, we'd love to read your thoughts on either our show, or The show Mad Men.    Email = [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/breakdown_old Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oldfashioned.breakdown.5 Reddit https://www.reddit.com/user/Old_Fashioned_Break    

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 Get in touch with us, rate and subscribe, we'd love to read your thoughts on either our show, or The show Mad Men.    Email = [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/breakdown_old Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oldfashioned.breakdown.5 Reddit https://www.reddit.com/user/Old_Fashioned_Break

In this episode Fola mansplains women to Helen. The guys try to improve their awareness about things in general and kinda show that they dont know that much. Fola gets anxious about the sound quality of the podcast, and Helen surprises Fola with her ability to just know stuff he spends hrs researching. And they both really enjoyed it. Oh and they explore the female orgasm About the feminine simulation Get in touch with us, rate and subscribe, we'd love to read your thoughts on either our show, or The show Mad Men.    Email = [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/breakdown_old Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oldfashioned.breakdown.5 Reddit https://www.reddit.com/user/Old_Fashioned_Break    

In this episode Helen and Fola try to figure out Dons Objet á from his Object of Desire.  Hey everyone we're back after an unplanned hiatus, doing podcasts is hard! Get in touch with us, rate and subscribe, we'd love to read your thoughts on either our show, or The show Mad Men.    Email = [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/breakdown_old Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oldfashioned.breakdown.5 Reddit https://www.reddit.com/user/Old_Fashioned_Break   References This dictionary does a decent job of explaining everything lacan An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis Video on how Rothko developed his style Another video on Rothko    

In this episode Helen and Fola talk about pretty much everything, Fetish, Signifiers, Phallus, Ego, everything,  except for Don Get in touch with us, rate and subscribe, we'd love to read your thoughts on either our show, or The show Mad Men.    Email = [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/breakdown_old Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oldfashioned.breakdown.5 Reddit https://www.reddit.com/user/Old_Fashioned_Break   References This dictionary does a decent job of explaining everything lacan An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis  

This one is a monster. Fola and Helen try to talk about Gaze and Subjectivity seriously, for way too long. Get in touch with us, rate and subscribe, we'd love to read your thoughts on either our show, or The show Mad Men.    Email = [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/breakdown_old Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oldfashioned.breakdown.5 Reddit https://www.reddit.com/user/Old_Fashioned_Break   References This dictionary does a decent job of explaining everything lacan An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis   This is the first pic mentioned The Ambassadors   This is the second....