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Ep. 383: Freud on Love and the Primal Horde (Part One)
On the second half of Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. We talk about the dual origins of group membership for Freud in personal love and…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
PEL Presents PvI#109: Choose Your Own Failure w/ Rich Baker
Rich runs the Dare to Fail improv school and is author of Improv Made Easier. He joins Mark and Mary to discuss contexts of failure, failing to meet …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Ep. 383: Freud on Love and the Primal Horde (Part One for Supporters)
3 months, 2 weeks ago
PEL 2026 Kickoff Nightcap
It's another year, and this time we each came in with a short bucket list of philosophical works that we'd like to read before this podcast concludes…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Ep. 382: Freud on Group Psychology (Part Two)
Continuing on the first half of Sigmund Freud's Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, now getting really into Freud's own type of explanation…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
PEL Presents PvI#108: Guess Who's Coming to Christmas Dinner... Lawrence Ware!
Philosopher/writer/critic/podcaster Lawrence Ware returns to the show to meet Mary and talk about how Mark is his own personal Leroy Jesus. We act ou…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
PEL Presents PMP#212: Holiday Romance Films
The Hallmark Channel became famous for producing low-budget, formulaic Christmas films, and this has spread to other outlets, sometimes with higher b…
4 months ago
Ep. 382: Freud on Group Psychology (Part One)
On the first half of Sigmund Freud's Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921). Why do members of a mob get dumber and less inhibited?
Fre…
4 months ago
PEL Presents NEM#244: Year-End Chat with NEM Audio Editor Roger Heathers
In a special holiday episode, we get to meet musician and podcaster Roger Heathers, who edits this show. Together, Roger and I discuss how we make th…
4 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 381: Aquinas on Ethical Psychology (Part Three)
We discuss the first six questions from the "Moral Action" section in the Summa Theologica (1268), which we read in Thomas Aquinas: Selected Philosop…
4 months, 1 week ago