"Todd is buddies with Zizek and comes from the same theoretical background, bringing Lacan and Hegel together (along with marx's critique of capital), but Todd is a much clearer writer. This book has a really good chapter on the topic of love, and discusses romance vs love."
"Reflecting on this experience I quote Todd McGowan who probably says 'the new universal project must be grounded not in solidarity with the positive attributes of a particular group or movement, but in a universality of a common r*tardation, in whose limitless variations we find our own, special par"