Existential Anxiety

Overthink

Ellie Anderson, Ph.D. and David Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D.

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 550 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

On episode 4 of Overthink, Ellie and David talk about existential anxiety, FOMO, Netflix’s Emily in Paris, The Good Place, and the difference between the medical and existential model of anxiety. Then the dynamic duo discusses how to deal with existential angst through resoluteness, mindfulness, and faith--or what David likes to call “embracing your ugliness!”

Interested in the works discussed? You can find them here:
Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
Gordon Marino, The Existentialist’s Survival Guide
American Psychiatric Association website, “What are Anxiety Disorders?” https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/anxiety-disorders/what-are-anxiety-disorders Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis
The Good Place (TV show)
Jenny Odell, How To Do Nothing
Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ellie Anderson.
0:09.2	And I'm David Pena Guzman.
0:10.9	Welcome to Overthink.
0:12.6	The podcast where two friends, who are also professors, put philosophy and dialogue with the everyday.
0:18.7	Because big ideas are within everyone's reach.
0:24.0	Hello, everyone. Hi. Welcome back to our podcast. So you know that feeling when you sit down on
0:35.2	your couch after a long day of work, just want to relax with a cozy TV show,
0:40.6	and you turn on Netflix.
0:42.7	Dada-dam.
0:44.6	The sound of pure existential dread.
0:50.0	Because then you have to decide what to watch.
0:53.9	This is a discussion that I have with my partner virtually every day.
0:59.0	What we end up doing is just browsing option after option without actually selecting anything.
1:06.5	Neither of us can pull the plug and say, enough is enough.
1:09.9	This is what we're watching.
1:11.6	And it means that at the end, we decide not to watch anything at all.
1:16.0	I'm the opposite. I just will settle on something, even if I know it's bad. Like, last week,
1:22.4	I watched almost the entire season of this Netflix show called Emily and Paris. This show is horrible.
1:29.8	It offends my sensibilities on every level. The fashion is like from 2010. The depiction of
1:37.3	French culture is just like horribly caricatured, although there are a few fun little tidbits
1:42.1	here and there. Okay, truth time, did you identify with Emily?
1:45.7	Yes or no?
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