PulsionA podcast of Pulsion Institutehosted by Avishai Rozen
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Episode 0226 March 202639 min

#2 - Charlie Stephenson: Gooning, Porn, and Contemporary Sexuality

In this episode, I speak with Charlie Stephenson, a fellow analyst-in-formation at Pulsion, about his paper and research on “gooning.”

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Gooning—a subculture organized around compulsive online pornography use—is often cast as a symptom of cultural decline. Through Freud and Laplanche, we revisit it instead as a window into trauma, infantile sexuality, and moral panic.