Hello and welcome back to Hardcore Literature. Today we're talking about Carl Jung's,

Man and His Symbols. It's been a little while since I've put out a podcast because I've

been hard at work, busy behind the scenes for the Hardcore Literature Book Club.

If you navigate over to patreon.com forward slash hardcore literature, you'll see there's a lot going on over there.

We've just finished a read of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, a deep read across a couple of

months, although the conversation's always open. The content is always there. And now we're

embarking upon a deep read of Dostoevsky's crime and punishment.

We're applying Freud, we're applying Victor Frankel, and we'll be applying a little bit of

Jung as well.

If you're interested in Jung, which I should imagine you are because you're listening to this

show right now, you might also be interested in Freud.

And we're doing a lot of Freudian analyses.

We did an analysis of

Dostoevsky and broke down Freud's essay Dostoyevsky and Paraside. Freud applied this to

Dostoevsky's the brothers Karamazov but we took all of his ideas from the essay and applied

them to crime and punishment and it was a really interesting little show behind the scenes.

So be sure to check that out if you're interested in a book club. That's all about living the great

books. Now, we're talking about Carl Jung today. But we live in a culture. We live in a society

that is still operating, still looking through the lens of Freud. We operate and think in

Freudian terms, whether we like it or not,

consciously or unconsciously. It's been almost a century since Freud was writing, since he was at

his peak, but we're still Freudian. It's still part of our epoch. I wish that we were more

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