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On Victor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning"
Episode 33
Victor Frankl was a leader in 20th century psychiatry. In 1942, Frankl was sent to a concentration camp in the Czech Republic. Frankl was already inf…
3 years, 7 months ago
Survival of the Leftest: Should We Embrace Behavioural Genetics?
Episode 38
Can genetics play a role in crafting left social policy? Or should we not touch those ideas ever again–even with a 10 foot pole? Paige Harden’s book,…
3 years, 7 months ago
On Sigmund Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents"
Episode 27
In 1930, Sigmund Freud wrote Civilization and its Discontents and laid out his theory of civilization: civilization’s a problem, and it makes us unha…
3 years, 7 months ago
Jillian Peterson and James Densley, "The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic" (Harry N. Abrams, 2021)
Episode 19
Using data from the writers' groundbreaking research on mass shooters, including first-person accounts from the perpetrators themselves, The Violence…
3 years, 7 months ago
Carl Waitz and Theresa Clement Tisdale, "Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Eastern Orthodox Christian Anthropology in Dialogue" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 196
Carl Waitz and Theresa Clement Tisdale offer to us a complex and scholarly text in their new book: Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Eastern Orthodox Chris…
3 years, 7 months ago
Alfie Bown, "Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Episode 325
We are in the middle of a 'desirevolution' - a fundamental and political transformation of the way we desire as human beings. Perhaps as always, new …
3 years, 7 months ago
Save the Whales: The Addictive Psychology Behind Video Games
Episode 27
We’ll save the Moby Dick puns for the episode itself, but suffice it to say that sinister game developers are on a whale hunt. This episode, original…
3 years, 7 months ago
Jamieson Webster, "Disorganisation & Sex" (Divided Publishing, 2022)
Episode 195
The first collection of essays from the author of the Life and Death of Psychoanalysis, Stay, Illusion! with Simon Critchley and Conversion Disorder,…
3 years, 7 months ago
Jordan Osserman, "Circumcision on the Couch: The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 193
It is not terribly controversial to say that castration fear is one of the key conceptual engines driving the psychoanalytic project overall. Whether…
3 years, 8 months ago
Mark Solms, "The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness" (Norton, 2021)
Episode 194
If you have ever been skeptical about whether neuroscience has anything to teach psychoanalysis, or vice-versa, you will be stimulated by this book w…
3 years, 8 months ago