Good job, Culture Vulture.
I’d say your Lacanian analysis of the newest episode of Mad Men was pretty strong. You did miss out on an interesting aberration in the psychoanalytic schema, that being Bettie Draper.
This woman has no mirror, no ‘Ideal-I’, as Lacan puts it in his impossibly dense treatise on “The Mirror Stage”. She represents [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Mad Men’
September 3, 2008
NYMAG.com, Lacan, Mad Men…
August 4, 2008
Mad Women
O my, why are we obsessed with Mad Men?!
Thursday’s Child and I were recently having a lively discussion about Betty Draper and why she’s such an evil bitch on the show. We ask, why do the writers portray her as an entitled spoiled wife who resents her children, as opposed to a sympathetic woman whose [...]
July 31, 2008
A nice little interview from Times Sunday Styles Magazine with Mad Men costume designer Janie Bryant. She talks about her inspiration to become a costume designer, Mad Men clothing styles and the elegance of the period. If you haven’t been watching – you should just relegate yourself to total uncoolness. AMC 10:00 pm on Sundays.
March 27, 2008
What the heck IS a Lipstick Jungle?
OK, so I have figured it out – I think. The book ends with the sentence “It’s a jungle out there…No…It’s a Lipstick Jungle” (435). We were all kind of wondering what this term actually means and to me, this sentence tells all. The book keeps talking about how NYC is the only place where [...]
