Intro:
Three horror films. One question: What happens when the world hands you a choice—change or die? Dr. Hoshaw examines Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, I Saw the TV Glow, and Slanted through the psychoanalytic lens of Adam Phillips’s On Wanting to Change and R.D. Laing’s The Divided Self. Along the way: a personal story about earning a pilot’s license, Susan Stryker’s landmark Frankenstein essay, and a sharp meditation on privilege, conversion, and the body’s refusal to cooperate.
SPOILER WARNING: This episode contains major spoilers for Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, I Saw the TV Glow, and Slanted. Watch the films first, then come back.
Preview:
Explore:
Films/Series:
*Something Very Bad Is About To Happen* on Netflix.
Books/Essays:
Adam Phillips, *On Wanting to Change* (2022).
R.D. Laing, *The Divided Self* (1960).
Susan Stryker, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix” (1994).
Hortense Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe” (1987).
David M. Halperin, *What Do Gay Men Want?* (2009).
C. Winter Han, *Racial Erotics* (2021):
Sophia Lewis, *Abolish the Family* (2022).
Music:
“Extraordinary,” from the musical *Pippin.*
“We Will Not Be Lovers,” *The Waterboys.*
“Perfection,” from the musical *Death Becomes Her.*
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