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The Fundamentalists

Oedipus

The Fundamentalists

Elliott Morgan and Peter Rollins

Society & Culture:philosophy, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

What is the Oedipus Complex, what’s it got to do with satisfaction and do we really want to sleep with our mothers? These, and other questions you’ve never asked, are explored on this episode.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody. Welcome to the Fundamentalist's podcast. My name is L.A. Morgan, and I'm here with my good friend, Peter Rollins, a doctor of philosophy, as well as a theologian and a public speaker has written several books.

0:22.6

I've written none. I do comedy on the internet and sometimes on stage and a thing on the

0:27.5

Valley Folk. And if you're joining us for the video on this, thank you guys for watching. I see you.

0:31.7

Thank you for commenting. We know it's a niche thing. We're not affected by the fact that it's not a

0:37.2

massive hit and it doesn't bother us at all,

0:39.0

even in the slides.

0:40.2

But thank you for being here and thank you for leaving comments also on the subreddit, both

0:46.2

for the Valley Folk and for...

0:47.8

And for leaving reviews.

0:49.7

I was reading the reviews recently just last week and that was really nice.

0:53.2

It's beautiful beautiful thank you so

0:54.3

much for people leaving reviews on the iTunes does that help as well i think it does i mean so

0:59.6

thank you for helping and it makes me feel good i like to know that we're not doing this all in a

1:03.7

it helps our psychology it helps our yeah it helps our crippling depression well speaking of

1:08.1

psychology is in crippling depressions pete we're talking talking about the Oedipus Complex on this particular episode. I have been reading a book

1:16.2

called The Story of Psychology right now. It's about this big. It's about 400 pages. Probably the biggest

1:20.8

book I've ever read my whole life. Is it that big lengthwise or thickness-wise? Okay, that's okay.

1:26.5

Yeah. Not my little book of calm.

1:28.3

Yeah, yeah.

1:29.3

Because that's your usual book, yeah.

1:31.4

Good standard big book that makes me feel like big old smarty pants, but it's so long.

1:36.8

And because it covers the entire history of psychology, it took me forever to get through all of the, you know, the Babylonians and

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