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Other pyroseminars include:

  • Embracing the Absurd | Atheism isn’t Enough

  • Beyond Belief | Christianity and Ideology Critique

  • The Alien from Inner Space | Sin and Prometheus

  • On Love | The Unwanted Gift of Nothing

  • Embracing Failure | On Not Getting what you Want

  • The Tech of Pyrotheology | Transformance Art

  • The Tech of Pyrotheology | Decentering Practices

  • Freedom from Meaning | Drive, Grace, the Absurd

  • The Last Guru | On Fantasy and Transference

  • Escaping the Sitcom | On Brent and Gargoyles

  • Catching Light | Lewis and the Sublime

  • God After God | The Certainty of Doubt

  • Joined by Lack | The Ontic and the Metaphysical

  • Confronting the Holy | Whole or Hole

  • Losing the Lost Object | On Conversion

  • On Envy and Jealousy | Girard and Christology

  • Deranged Animal | Desire, Drive and The Thing

  • The Meaning in Life | Drive and the Transcendental

  • Alienation Times Two | Traversing the Fantasy

  • God Forsaking God | Conversion, Forgiveness, Joy

  • Who is No. 1 | Peterson, PC and the Unconscious

  • Is God Dead | The Event of Radical Theology

  • Mapping Pyrotheology | Returning to the Start

  • Problem or Symptom | The Zizek/Peterson Debate

  • The Self-Castration of God | Kenosis and Freedom

  • The Magic Trick of Christianity | Pledge, Turn and Prestige

  • Pyrotheology | The Q&A

  • Difference Between Identical Wines | Wanting Others to Pay

  • Projection or Projectile | The Right-Wing Deviation of the Left

  • The Quantum Level of Reason | C.S. Lewis and Ezekiel Bulver

  • Contingent Gristle of the Real | The Joker and Divine Violence

Surviving Christmas: A Conversation with Sean McDonald

Over the years you've heard me employ psychoanalytic ideas to explore philosophical, political and religious issues. But the theory is first and foremost designed to help individuals live and love. So I felt that it would be helpful to talk to an expert who works with these ideas on a daily basis with real people dealing with real issues.

It seems like a good time to have this conversation, as Christmas can be a difficult season. It can be a volcanic time in which repressed material erupts, spilling over in the form of arguments, break ups, loneliness and despair.

I’ll be sitting down with Sean McDonald, a Lacanian psychotherapeutic psychoanalyst who has a private practice in Los Angeles.

While we’ll kick off looking at Christmas, we’ll be taking a wider look at what it might mean to live and love well.

If you'd like to find out more about Sean and his practice, click here. I'd also recommend you follow the link if you live in LA and believe you might benefit from psychotherapy.

Time and Date

20th December

The conversation will be uploaded and available by 3pm PST

As always, the seminar can be watched live or later. To access this - and all other - pyroseminars, you just need to be signed up to the Flame level, or above, on Patreon.

I’ll be releasing the interview more widely on Christmas Day. So only sign up if you want to get it early, and want the other seminars (listed on the left)