Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2020
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
David and Tamler dive into Sigmund Freud's world of unconscious drives, death instincts, and thwarted incestuous urges in his classic text "Civilization and its Discontents." If society has made so much progress, why are human beings perpetually dissatisfied? Can religion help us or is it a big part of the problem? What's really going on when you piss on a fire to put it out? Also: how seriously should we take Freud today given some of his wackier ideas? And is he a psychologist, a philosopher, or something else entirely?
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:05.9 | having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics. |
| 0:09.4 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say, |
| 0:13.6 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:17.1 | If you're trying to be hurtful, you're doing a good job. |
| 0:20.4 | The lady on his phone says, |
| 0:26.4 | I know your attention to that man behind the curtain. |
| 0:36.4 | Who are you? |
| 0:38.4 | Who are you? |
| 0:40.4 | I'm very bad man. |
| 0:42.4 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:44.4 | Good man. |
| 0:46.4 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 0:48.4 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
| 0:50.4 | I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 0:52.4 | Dave, yesterday I learned the origin of the |
| 0:56.4 | two-year-old man. |
| 0:58.4 | I'm a very bad wizard. |
| 1:02.4 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:04.4 | I'm a very good man. |
| 1:06.4 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:08.4 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
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