The Unconscious

Overthink

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

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

What do Freudian slips, Josie and the Pussycats, and solving math problems have in common? Psychoanalysis claims to have some answers! Sigmund Freud suggests that unconscious desires, fears, and trauma influence us without us being conscious of them. In pop culture, the unconscious is often depicted as the realm of dirty thoughts and subliminal messages, but does the unconscious actually even exist? In episode 50 (!), Ellie and David explore the unconscious and the existentialist challenge to it from Jean-Paul Sartre.

Works Discussed

Sigmund Freud, “The Unconscious”
Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
The Exorcist (1973)
Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
Stanislas Dehaene, The Code of Consciousness
Jacques Hadamard, An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field
Jacques Derrida, “Freud and the Scene of Writing”

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm David Pena Guzman.
0:08.6	And I'm Ellie Anderson.
0:10.2	Welcome to Overthink.
0:12.0	The podcast were two friends, who are also professors, put philosophy in dialogue with the everyday.
0:18.6	Because big ideas are within everyone's reach.
0:30.3	David, I usually record from my closet, as you know, but my laptop is in the shop right now. And so I'm using my big Pomona
0:41.8	desktop computer in my living room. But the one time I recorded in my living room, there was too
0:48.5	much echo. So I am currently coming at you from a full on fort in my living room, which feels perfect for an
0:56.4	episode that has to do with psychoanalysis because it basically feels like a womb.
1:02.2	Ellie regressed all the way to the moment of pre-birth, to the cosmic unity for which we all strive.
1:12.0	And you can see how red my cheeks are right now.
1:14.6	Like I'm a full on baby under here, like warm under my duvet cover, which is propped up by my couch cushions.
1:22.4	Well, also, because I do have visual access to you, is the duvet pink or is that a reflection of the back
1:29.3	red sheet that you have? It all looks like different shades of red and pink, giving it a very
1:36.5	graphic quality. Like, I'm really uncomfortable looking at you, Ellie, right now. I need to look
1:42.3	away. I look like a birth photo. It's just like my head
1:46.0	emerging. No, my duvet. My duvet is beige, so it is just an optical illusion. But yeah, the overall,
1:52.4	it's giving red and pink womb for sure. Yeah, it's the womb combined with the phallic Yeti
1:58.1	microphone. It's a primal scene of conception.
2:02.1	Oh my God.
2:02.8	Okay.
2:03.2	Well, get ready for more weird imagery because I cannot wait to start off this episode by telling
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