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148. Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard (Existentialism)

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is Existentialism a Psychoanalytic Idea?

Young people are caught in part between an emergent nihilism that seems to be implicit in a materialist world view and the temptation of radical idiologies. Neither of those options, i would say, is tenable. I mean, the nihilistic option leaves you with nothing, and that's not good. If your life is fundamentally problematic, without you being pathological, just as the essence of your life, then you need something to defend o to defend against that. And so part of what the stentialists we're suggesting is that precisely. What you want is yung found out where you least want to look at them.

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