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04: Guess Who’s Back, Back Again (It’s Freud) feat. Hannah Zeavin and Alex Colston

Ordinary Unhappiness

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The Return of Meta Narratives

Stanley Fish: I think there's something about the resurgence of ideological or political like quote unquote isms that one might have thought had been banished to the past. On the other hand psychoanalysis dignifies or at least is attuned to suffering in an attentive way rather than disavowing it or just pretending it's not there, he says. Stanley Fish: There was a lot of debate sequence with a very psychoanalytic lens when Obama and Romney were debating but now we're living in the aftermath of that story as she says. He also thinks Trump made it impossible in polite society to maintain certain pretenses by showing how vain people can be.

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