Dr. Robert Jay Lifton on current affairs and the importance of survivors telling their stories
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
00:00
Symbolic Immortality and the Nuclear Bomb
i've been following your work for forty five years, read all of your books. i guess i want to ask you to just share a little bit about your theory of symbolic immortality. How the nuclear bomb shifted that, in relation to what youe just said. A, we struggle for what i all larger human connectedness. And now with nuclear weapons, but also with climate threat and also with the pandemic, that larger human connectededness is threatened. It hasn't been destroyed, but it's been foundly threatened.
Transcript
Play full episode
