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Robert Greene || Strategy, Seduction, and the Sublime

The Psychology Podcast

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Are We All Vulnerable to Fiction?

Robinson: We all have the desire, i believe, to be seduced in some way. I'm very much influenced by the writer irving goffman. The engaans approach is that we humans are continually acting in our daily lives. It's part of being a social animal. So when we assume a certain role, a certain position in in e job, whatever, we have to assume that role and become an actor. And then when we're dealing with our spouse or our children, we wear a different mask, we act in a different way. But this act, this idea of our being an actor in play, acting, is diffused throughout our daily life.

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