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148. Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard (Existentialism)

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Psychopathology and the Existentialists

Existentialism is the insistence upon trouble and suffering as an intrinsic element of human experience. Psychoanalysts tend to look for adult psychopathology in childhood, misadventure in childhood. There's no real way of avoiding it, or at least there's no reason to look for extra causes that might be a better way of thinking about it. The existentialists sarealy buy that perspective right from the beginning.

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