I Love This Book, It's a Book of Emotions

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The book has these kind of multiple interpretations, fruitful interpretations, going on at the same time. It also has a kind of shrodinges cat quality to it, where, you know, you see it like this, but then you also see it like that. But with those weird, fantastical, absurdest elements, i feel like he's making me look at this in a whole bunch of different ways. Even as you're reading it, it's a weight, like, a multiplicity of emotions, some of which i don't even think we're aware of.

David and Tamler wander through the bewildering dream-like world of Franz Kafka’s "The Trial." In part one of a two-part discussion we discuss the circumstances of its publication, the various interpretative approaches that can be taken to the novel, and all the ways that Kafka’s prose gets under your skin, making you feel what’s happening even if you don’t fully understand it. Recorded in the decidedly un-Kafka-esque location of Nosara, Costa Rica – thanks to the Harmony Hotel for having us back!

Plus – Social Psychologists for Peace send an open letter to Vladimir Putin urging him to reverse course on the tragic invasion of Ukraine. Putin seems intent on toppling the Ukranian government but has he considered Sherif et al (1961), Tajfel (1977), Festinger (1954), and Brewer (1991)?