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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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Oedipus II and the Curse of Thebes

Abby: Oedipus is a victim of his own paranoid attempt to make sense of himself. The city of Thebes has a political curse cast upon him and all these horrid symptoms are plaguing Thebes. In that way he becomes puppeted by his own neurosis of a sense of destiny, making too much sense out of the situation. Alex: That fissure of like reintroducing nonsense into one's life into one's own sense of neurosis is itself the therapeutic act.

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