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The Fundamentalists

Psychoanalyzing Batman

The Fundamentalists

Elliott Morgan and Peter Rollins

Society & Culture:philosophy, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Hi, all! We're back in action here at The Fundamentalists. In this episode, we psychoanalyze Batman, because WHY NOT YOU KNOW?! If you'd like to hear bonus/too-hot-for-the-Internet episodes or ask questions for us to answer on the podcast, help support this beast over at http://patreon.com/thefundamentalists !

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody. Welcome to Fundamentalists. Wait, hold on. Let's do a take two.

0:13.8

Da-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-fundamentalists. So this is an episode,

0:17.8

guys, that's very special, very near and dear to my heart. But before we begin, let's do a little bit of housekeeping.

0:23.4

My name is Elliot Morgan.

0:24.8

I am here with Peter Rollins.

0:27.9

This is a podcast where we talk about philosophy and psychoanalysis and Jung and Freud and sometimes Zhechik and what? Cultural stuff sexual stuff sexual stuff yeah um a lot of

0:42.6

heavy heavy topics politics even sometimes we get into but that's not what this is about in fact

0:48.5

what could be less political than batman that's right folks We're talking about one of my favorite things in the

0:56.0

world, which is Batman. I've gotten recently back into Batman, which is mildly embarrassing,

1:02.3

I guess, but not really. And the way I learned I was back into Batman was not because I was

1:06.6

obsessing over Batman or watching all of Batman, the Batman movies back to back or anything

1:11.1

like that. It was because I, as, you know, Jung says the face you show the unconscious,

1:17.5

is the face that the unconscious shows to you, which is what a Nietzsche thing that he's,

1:21.4

is that what Nietzsche says? It sounds like a playoff. You stare into the abyss.

1:25.3

Yes. It's stairs back at you.

1:26.4

And I have now a playoff of it, which is the face you show to Instagram is the face that

1:32.5

the Instagram explore page will show to you.

1:35.4

And if I go to my Instagram explore page, I see a lot of Batman stuff these days.

1:39.9

And a lot of that centers.

1:41.4

I see a lot of kind of TikTok girl dances.

1:44.8

Ah.

1:46.0

So that's as terrifying that I see myself back at myself.

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