Unconscious/Television is a new book by Lucas Ferraço Nassif, whose cine-poem Missing Links: A Book in Ten Sessions we featured in our Summer 2024 edition. Nassif intertwines references to TV shows and anime with theoretical frameworks from Lacan, Freud, Deleuze, Guattari, and Thomas Lamarre, to whom the book is dedicated. Lamarre, known for his two influential books on anime, inspired Nassif to break out of Western psychoanalytic discourse by studying Japanese animated television. “Television is different from cinema because it is in the middle of everything – it has a body, it emits warmth,” Nassif reminds his readers, recalling the image of Godard embracing his television set. The book itself takes an experimental form: its six texts have been cut up and reordered, then divided into four sections with three dynamic intersections, creating a reading experience that mirrors its theoretical concerns.