Lives of the Unconscious. A Podcast on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

Nov 29 2024 41 ep. 28 mins 230

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This podcast is devoted to topics on psychotherapy, contemporary psychoanalysis, and psychodynamic therapy methods, as well as social issues. A new episode is published every Friday. Recommended readings can be found attached to each respective episode. Website: https://www.psy-cast.org

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Episode 36. What poverty does tu us. And what it has to do with our history.

Nov 29 2024 35 mins

We are back with a new episode! "Behind what is referred to in psychoanalysis as fate neurosis or repetition compulsion often lurks the uncanny magnetism of one's own social class" Support us on Patreon and get the scripts to the episodes: www.patreon.com/lives Script to this episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/116944972 Our youtube-channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Livesoft

Episode 35. Envy. A hidden force within human relations

Apr 29 2023 38 mins

Envy can arise wherever there exists inequality between people: in societies and families, between siblings, genders, and generations. “Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay” (R.W. Emerson). Envy has a bad reputation, at times even considered taboo, and yet still it proves to be ever-present. This episode explores the psychoanalytic understanding of envy and its implic

Episode 34. Dissociative Identity Disorder - Secret Lives

Feb 28 2023 40 mins

The idea of split personality is fertile ground for stories of great imagination—while regrettably also inspiring and perpetuating numerous misunderstandings that continue to cling to the kind of personality organization that we will take up in this episode. *there is a small cultural variation in the episode. We use the German abbreviation "DIS" for Dissociative Identity Disord

Episode 33.The Phantom of Emptiness. On the Psychodynamics of White Depression.

Jan 04 2023 44 mins

In contrast to “black depression,” white depression denotes an often inconspicuous, insidious affliction that can last a lifetime. Its distinguishing quality is a feeling of meaninglessness and emptiness that is nearly impossible to grasp, even if everything in life actually appears to be working out and there is reason to be joyful. As if, despite all efforts, it was simply im

Episode 32.The Pseudo-Community. Or: The Family behind the Rubber Fence

Nov 25 2022 33 mins

“You’re free to do anything you want! But this man, of all people—you’ll never be happy with him.” Or: “Of course, if you don’t have time, you don’t have to come to the birthday dinner. But Uncle Henry will be very sad if you don’t. He was asking about you.” Or: “Yeah, yeah, I got it, independence is very important. But your own apartment, what’s the point?

Episode 31. A Lover's Bind: The Psychoanalysis of Romantic Relationships

Oct 17 2022 38 mins

One couple fights over household responsibilities. Another is trapped in a cycle of jealousy and control. Still another strives for total harmony and oneness—only to be tormented by intense anxiety the moment small differences arise. With the help of the famous psychodynamic concept of collusion, this episode deals with the often conflictual relations between couples. We often en

Episode 30: On the psychoanalysis of addictive disorders

Sep 16 2022 33 mins

Addiction is one of the most widespread forms of mental illness. However, it is also burdened with many stigmas, and those suffering from it are often stigmatized. Treating it is considered difficult. But why do people become addicted? Can anyone become an addict? What is the psychological function of addictive behavior? This episode is an introduction to the psychoanalytic underst

Episode 29: The Anorexic Dynamic. Or: Why eating disorders are not about the food

Aug 19 2022 38 mins

“You are what you eat.” We are continuously negotiating our identity through food, setting the boundaries of the self. Inscribed into the symptoms of anorexia is an unconscious conflict of identity, which has something to do with one’s own longings and cravings, with a hunger for the other. In psychodynamic therapies, these longings become part of the therapeutic exchange, wh

Episode 28: Malignant Narcissism: A Reservoir of Hatred and Violence

Jul 19 2022 30 mins

History has certainly never failed to offer reasons and occasions to cause violence of all sorts; making it understandable how Freud arrived at the following verdict towards the end of his life: “Homo homini lupus—man is wolf to man. Who in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion?” One form of violence in particu

Episode 27: The Tragedy of Narcissism

Jun 13 2022 29 mins

The diagnosis of “narcissism” appears to have come into vogue, not only in the field of clinical psychology. It is an inescapable diagnosis for just about any critique of contemporary society. But what exactly are we talking about when we talk of narcissism? How do such diagnoses of our times relate to the clinical and psychoanalytical understanding of narcissism? Support us o