FREUD AND BEYOND 2017 FREUD AND BEYOND 2016 FREUD AND BEYOND 2015 INTRODUCTION TO KLEINIAN THEORY 2016 BION 2017 ASSORTED 2018, 2019, 2020 York website: yorku.ca/dcarveth/ New website (coming soon): doncarveth.com
The difference between loud dogmatic inner super ego and small still voice conscience, Dr Jordan Peterson is perhaps publicly the best example. Thankyou Off track, apart from personal difficulties have become increasingly alarmed by Jordan Peterson, whose highly rated controversial videos I've occassioned to watch they highlite for me the dangerous masked narcissism of this type of intelligence he is sucking people in by the hundreds of thousands, perhaps his brand of super ego orientated opinion ie leftist loonies chant, is meant by him to be intelligent it's not the voice of conscience, is it what people crave simple superficial answers to life problems, just make your bed or pretend to be a counsellor or all under the guise if seeking attention and gsrnering likes, VERY disturbing. He is tyranically aggressive in his style and loves to flip from anti to pro in the blink of an eye such people are a menace.
@james-ob9rz2 күн бұрын
All this. Freud is so bad and fake Sickman fraud
@james-ob9rz2 күн бұрын
Load of bs most if it
@ipsofactophoto3 күн бұрын
Thanks.
@iloveyoufromthedepthofmyheart3 күн бұрын
Hm..How do you work it through "emotionally"? I do rationally understand it, and have discussed it but it still doesn't go away...Why does it persist anyways?
@doncarveth3 күн бұрын
@@iloveyoufromthedepthofmyheart there is a deep longing for something felt to have been missed, so one keeps trying to get it rather than facing the pain of the loss and mourning the loss. Mourning is very painful and often takes a long time. The analyst is there to help with the mourning, not to make it unnecessary.
@doncarveth3 күн бұрын
One has to learn that one can survive this loss.
@iloveyoufromthedepthofmyheart3 күн бұрын
@@doncarveth thank you, your response means a lot to me. I sobbed even while reading it, so there must be something to it.
@iloveyoufromthedepthofmyheart3 күн бұрын
This was probably the most empathetic video on erotic transference I have come across. It is true - it is very painful and addictive, and allowing it to just go on and on, doesn't seem to solve my problems in real life as a client. Thank you for being helpful.
@Filipe-e4k4 күн бұрын
I have been watching the videos and listening to the podcast for a while now. Your words are clear and help a lot of psychotherapists around the globe. Dr. Carveth, I was wondering if you were familiar with the works of Howard Levine and Antonino Ferro in Post-Bionian Field Theory? Would love to hear you talk about that, if it brings you some interest. Anyway, thanks a lot!
@doncarveth4 күн бұрын
Most welcome. I have read a bit of Levine andl Ferro but not enough to lecture on this as yet.
@jannem32676 күн бұрын
Oh, these Oedipal analysts, always bashing Freud. If not for anything else, then atleast for not being perfect; for not developing that grand work of his, which no other single person has been anywhere near of producing - for 100% completion in his lifetime. Freud used cocaine while he was away from her wife and stopped after reunion. He wanted to do 12 hours work, that writing and studying taking it's time, on top of his work to secure some coins as a doctor for the missus. I haven't done coke, but I wonder and suspect that without it he couldn't have gotten as far as he did surpassing the biases of one's own mind. Tibetan dream yogists got (almost) nothing compared to Freud and his analytical view. Freud had a dear babysitter who raised him and vanished from his life suddenly. Maybe it was better to transfer love to someone who was there, instead of being in relation to lost and abandoning mother-figure? Actual neurosis was introduced by Verhaeghe in his book and if I have not mistaken, reminded something that was depicted in Leader's book on whey people get sick. There was "a class" of people whose physical symptoms came from unsymolized, unrepessed origins - like kind of a road that doesn't go through the mental towns of conscious and unconscious. Just straight to the body. It might help to think some Indian or Chinese concept of energy/chi here, to grasp the idea. I'll try to come back for Klein after I have gotten over oif this and forgiven. Found this from the New books interview, which became interestinh in the end. But, Freud had a sense for humor and his "beast of the id" seemed a rather nice polarization against the knight's plate mail of cultural socialization of the drives, against which neurotics rattle. Like with this idea of destroying the superego.
@mariaa.14009 күн бұрын
I was missing your videos. Glad you are back.
@camelotenglishtuition63949 күн бұрын
Thank you for the excellent video. I have a question regarding negative injunctions in victims of narc abuse. Would it be possible to send a very short email with the question? I don't really want to ask it on a public forum. Thanks so much for your time.
I'd describe it as internal terror and fear of existence
@mancubthescrub13 күн бұрын
He comments at ~1:25:00 about the difference between therapists operating between compliance vs ethics, Ive made similar comments about the legal justice system in Kansas. Our society really does need to start pushing ethics vs compliance; notions of love vs hate come to mind.
@doncarveth13 күн бұрын
Yes
@llallogan14 күн бұрын
Hi Don I was wondering if you could provide more on the James Strachey reference here? Had trouble finding
@doncarveth14 күн бұрын
Strachey, J. (1934). The nature of the therapeutic action of psycho-analysis. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 15: 127-159.
@ulm81gtr14 күн бұрын
Glad to see you back!
@ipsofactophoto14 күн бұрын
100% EDGAR BOX APPROVED.
@gleskpem193415 күн бұрын
Im trying to destroy that useless thing.
@ipsofactophoto15 күн бұрын
Thank you.
@julin859716 күн бұрын
I am also concerned about unqualified people selling courses for nearly £1000.00. Yea they are smart knowledgeable, empathic but they are not trained! This specific person has wonderful helpful videos but she isn’t a clinician and she sells a course for £1000.00 that bothers me. Especially since her content is focused on trauma.
@doncarveth16 күн бұрын
I think yes, but the NV or whatever is not borrowed, it is induced and the person who induces it does not want it back
@doncarveth16 күн бұрын
Although my rational self does not believe it, my emotional self feels at death I will be going into the arms of Lord Jesus
@ulm81gtr14 күн бұрын
Is there a chance that you will find the time for some integrative thoughts on perspectives of jungian analytical psychology?
@doncarveth14 күн бұрын
yeah club Lusensky has just brought out a book called “CG Yonge, face-to-face with Christianity. He interviews various people, including me, and there is a dialogue between Jakob, Sean McGrath and me in that book. Online at “psychology and the Cross” Jakob dialogues with.Sean and me. I am mentioning Jung frequently in my recent writing. He had many interesting things to say, but he was certainly no Christien.
@sybersandy16 күн бұрын
So glad I followed someone' s recommendation on Reddit to find your channel. It is the first video of yours I listened to, I did it twice and I am glad I did! I totally second your postulate against Beckers thesis! Even without being familiar with Nietzsche's personal confession the first thing that came to my mind is that if there is an assumption of an Ur-fear we can also assume the existence of an Ur- believe. It is actually easy to find out through the following question: The world is full of________. (Fill in the blank within 2 seconds). I think Becker himself was actually perturbed by his own uncertainty and not by death :). I am going to listen to all your other videos in due time. Very curious! Thank you!
@doncarveth16 күн бұрын
I started putting them up in 2015 so some of them are pretty old and my views in some areas have moved on or clarified slightly. I guess the clearest statement of where I’m at now is in my 2023 small book on guilt
@seymourtompkins16 күн бұрын
Thank you. Interesting paper. If Herr Becker were among us today, he might respond that positions like yours just support his case- that death anxiety is so deeply unconscious and the repression around it is so absolute, such protests are bound to arise in any effort to take on the subject of our own personal extinction. Also, how can you we say categorically that all anxieties are not reducible to death anxiety? It sounds simplistic, but how do we know it's not the case ?
@doncarveth16 күн бұрын
See my video lecture on “trauma.” At 80 years old and (temporarily) a cancer survivor who updates his last will and testament yearly, I don’t think I’m in denial of death!
@seymourtompkins16 күн бұрын
@@doncarveth 80?? You never seem to age, Don. But to your point (and with all due respect), isn't Becker talking about denial in the way Freud used "disavowal' ? We can certainly acknowledge death and plan/prepare for it. It's not a psychotic denial. I do think he was on to something...but , at the same time, I also agree with Jung that the unconscious is untroubled by our impending death, as evidenced by the dreams of the dying. Marie Von Franz saw the same thing among her patients. So perhaps it's both.
@doncarveth16 күн бұрын
@@seymourtompkins although my rational self does not believe it my emotional self feels that when I die, I will be going into the arms of Lord Jesus
@seymourtompkins15 күн бұрын
@@doncarveth ...and what your unconscious has to say about it is yet another matter :)
@dkmagos17 күн бұрын
according to the Bible, creation is good, for Becker ... not so much.
@attheranch87317 күн бұрын
You managed to make the topic boring.
@user-es2vz9nz1w17 күн бұрын
Happy to come back...Reading Freud again, and Bruce Fink's introduction to Freud. A very interesting book, and a useful one.
@user-bz8kz9tt8s18 күн бұрын
What an intelligent guy
@user-id8lw9oy4x18 күн бұрын
The book is excellent - especially when accompanied by these videos
@user-id8lw9oy4x18 күн бұрын
I really enjoyed this. I like the various strands you introduced- namely from religion, literature and philosophy- as well of course psychoanalysis.
@doncarveth18 күн бұрын
Thank you
@ipsofactophoto18 күн бұрын
Greatly appreciated.
@mtn722418 күн бұрын
Well done. I was always a fan of this book (and possibly also suffering from the same biases the author had), but you make a reasonable rejoinder
@doncarveth18 күн бұрын
Thank you. I admire your openness to revising your views.
@martingergoff196018 күн бұрын
Is not the phallus in Lacan symbolic, as the signifier of significance, faith in the sybolic order or fear of absence? If so, how could he be patriarchal, especially when acceptance of castration is the medium for reclaiming subjectivity and overcoming narcissism, the specular ego?
@doncarveth18 күн бұрын
To answer that would require a lot of dialogue, definitions of terms, etc.
@d.nakamura957918 күн бұрын
16:40 “as a persecutory attack by an all bad object…” this seems to explain why NPD narcissists fear death so much.
@doncarveth19 күн бұрын
The left hemisphere may need a name, but the right hemisphere does not.
@Nobody-Nowhere19 күн бұрын
I find this idea of "mature faith" hard to digest, as faith is always based on belief in supernatural.
@doncarveth19 күн бұрын
No, there is a distinction between the Hellenistic and the Hebraic meanings of faith. The Hellenistic concerns belief; the Hebraic concerns, Trust. A mature faith has to do with Trust, not belief as in catechisms or propositions.. A person who does not believe in God can nevertheless have an attitude of trust towards self, others, and life itself.
@Nobody-Nowhere19 күн бұрын
@@doncarveth But trust in what? You cant just say that faith is trust, then its no longer faith. To me you are confusing two totally different things here.
@Nobody-Nowhere19 күн бұрын
@@doncarvethI see religions as safety valves for the paranoid core of humans, we need to have something to channel that into. This is how it can offer a stabilizing function for societies, that instead of breaking people apart it brings them together. Like collective projections instead of personal ones. Collective psychosis instead of personal delusion. Because its exactly paranoia that rips societies apart, thus the only way to handle it is to have common enemy. And religion can offer this in a constructive manner. There is always a supernatural aspect to religions, and thus faith. Trying to somehow make it something mature and sensible just to me sounds like taking away the only function it can have.
@sybersandy16 күн бұрын
@@doncarvethbut why only distinguish between Hellenistic and Hebrew? The Roman meaning of faith (fides) is far vaster, plus it also means rope, which implies that we are connected if not interwoven in/ with "something".
@doncarveth16 күн бұрын
@@sybersandy interesting
@LinuxUser0019 күн бұрын
“Yet, at the same time, as the Eastern sages also knew, man is a worm and food for worms. This is the paradox: he is out of nature and hopelessly in it; he is dual, up in the stars and yet housed in a heart-pumping, breath-gasping body [...]" - Becker, Denial Wouldn't it be more appropriate - in light of the modern consequences of overconsumption, overpopulation, technological slavery, pollution/ecological disaster, apathy towards genocide, nuclear armament, religious/national fanaticism - to call man a termite?
@gboccieri19 күн бұрын
Good to see you back, Donald! Looking forward to watching this lecture!
@judithbreastsler19 күн бұрын
did you get a new barber, Don? Looking good
@doncarveth19 күн бұрын
No, finally got back to my old one after cutting it myself during Covid years.
@lindab568019 күн бұрын
Welcome back! Thank you for this video. I was so excited to read this after loving Otto Rank's Beyond Psychology, but I found it so melancholic, as you say.
@doncarveth19 күн бұрын
Thank you
@charliehachem614220 күн бұрын
Will always be waiting for the next upload, Thanks!
@123456789987o20 күн бұрын
Glad to see you back on KZread! It's been awhile!
@user-id8lw9oy4x20 күн бұрын
New video - fabulous
@doncarveth20 күн бұрын
Thank you!
@leanmchungry473520 күн бұрын
Thanks for this thoughtful piece, I was puzzled by Becker. If culture was a defensive illusion against death, but experiencing open, ephemeral life the real prize. Why did he write his opus at the very end of his short life? He alone had a cultural monument worth preserving? I surely missed a lot.
@LinuxUser0019 күн бұрын
I relate that to philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe. According to Zapffe, one of the ways in which humans artificially limit the content of their consciousness is Sublimation which "is the refocusing of energy away from negative outlets, toward positive ones. The individuals distance themselves and look at their existence from an aesthetic point of view (e.g., writers, poets, painters)."
@lemon-yi6yh20 күн бұрын
With all due respect, sir, Becker is right. And so is Schopenhauer. And Sophocles. And philosophical pessimism in general. God is not good and creation hell. I would very much like to hear a conversation between you and Sam Vaknin on this subject. "I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an absurd, but also a really wicked, way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the most unspeakable sufferings of mankind." You can throw as much psychology as you want at these authors, it's a cheap way to fallaciously defeat them, their philosophical position remains untouched, as it has for millennia. People just refuse to listen.
@hunter1194520 күн бұрын
spoken with majesty worthy of the written material as always thanks dr carveth
@doncarveth20 күн бұрын
Much appreciated
@Cocomoc.20 күн бұрын
Missing your new videos tremendously ! Thank you :)
@pedrohoracioaguilardiaz328820 күн бұрын
Professor, where have you been? Good you are here. Particularly that in this moment most of our societies are engaged in the pursuit of materialistic goals like National State, money and land, and became death cults. Good you vow for life. Welcome back!
@doncarveth20 күн бұрын
Thank you. Yes, life and love
@user-mx4nl1um2s21 күн бұрын
Thank you so much for this beauiful video ❤❤❤ very informarive
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Great stuff. Thank you
The difference between loud dogmatic inner super ego and small still voice conscience, Dr Jordan Peterson is perhaps publicly the best example. Thankyou Off track, apart from personal difficulties have become increasingly alarmed by Jordan Peterson, whose highly rated controversial videos I've occassioned to watch they highlite for me the dangerous masked narcissism of this type of intelligence he is sucking people in by the hundreds of thousands, perhaps his brand of super ego orientated opinion ie leftist loonies chant, is meant by him to be intelligent it's not the voice of conscience, is it what people crave simple superficial answers to life problems, just make your bed or pretend to be a counsellor or all under the guise if seeking attention and gsrnering likes, VERY disturbing. He is tyranically aggressive in his style and loves to flip from anti to pro in the blink of an eye such people are a menace.
All this. Freud is so bad and fake Sickman fraud
Load of bs most if it
Thanks.
Hm..How do you work it through "emotionally"? I do rationally understand it, and have discussed it but it still doesn't go away...Why does it persist anyways?
@@iloveyoufromthedepthofmyheart there is a deep longing for something felt to have been missed, so one keeps trying to get it rather than facing the pain of the loss and mourning the loss. Mourning is very painful and often takes a long time. The analyst is there to help with the mourning, not to make it unnecessary.
One has to learn that one can survive this loss.
@@doncarveth thank you, your response means a lot to me. I sobbed even while reading it, so there must be something to it.
This was probably the most empathetic video on erotic transference I have come across. It is true - it is very painful and addictive, and allowing it to just go on and on, doesn't seem to solve my problems in real life as a client. Thank you for being helpful.
I have been watching the videos and listening to the podcast for a while now. Your words are clear and help a lot of psychotherapists around the globe. Dr. Carveth, I was wondering if you were familiar with the works of Howard Levine and Antonino Ferro in Post-Bionian Field Theory? Would love to hear you talk about that, if it brings you some interest. Anyway, thanks a lot!
Most welcome. I have read a bit of Levine andl Ferro but not enough to lecture on this as yet.
Oh, these Oedipal analysts, always bashing Freud. If not for anything else, then atleast for not being perfect; for not developing that grand work of his, which no other single person has been anywhere near of producing - for 100% completion in his lifetime. Freud used cocaine while he was away from her wife and stopped after reunion. He wanted to do 12 hours work, that writing and studying taking it's time, on top of his work to secure some coins as a doctor for the missus. I haven't done coke, but I wonder and suspect that without it he couldn't have gotten as far as he did surpassing the biases of one's own mind. Tibetan dream yogists got (almost) nothing compared to Freud and his analytical view. Freud had a dear babysitter who raised him and vanished from his life suddenly. Maybe it was better to transfer love to someone who was there, instead of being in relation to lost and abandoning mother-figure? Actual neurosis was introduced by Verhaeghe in his book and if I have not mistaken, reminded something that was depicted in Leader's book on whey people get sick. There was "a class" of people whose physical symptoms came from unsymolized, unrepessed origins - like kind of a road that doesn't go through the mental towns of conscious and unconscious. Just straight to the body. It might help to think some Indian or Chinese concept of energy/chi here, to grasp the idea. I'll try to come back for Klein after I have gotten over oif this and forgiven. Found this from the New books interview, which became interestinh in the end. But, Freud had a sense for humor and his "beast of the id" seemed a rather nice polarization against the knight's plate mail of cultural socialization of the drives, against which neurotics rattle. Like with this idea of destroying the superego.
I was missing your videos. Glad you are back.
Thank you for the excellent video. I have a question regarding negative injunctions in victims of narc abuse. Would it be possible to send a very short email with the question? I don't really want to ask it on a public forum. Thanks so much for your time.
[email protected]
@@doncarveth sent. Many thanks again Don
So happy to see you back
I DIG IT.
I'd describe it as internal terror and fear of existence
He comments at ~1:25:00 about the difference between therapists operating between compliance vs ethics, Ive made similar comments about the legal justice system in Kansas. Our society really does need to start pushing ethics vs compliance; notions of love vs hate come to mind.
Yes
Hi Don I was wondering if you could provide more on the James Strachey reference here? Had trouble finding
Strachey, J. (1934). The nature of the therapeutic action of psycho-analysis. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 15: 127-159.
Glad to see you back!
100% EDGAR BOX APPROVED.
Im trying to destroy that useless thing.
Thank you.
I am also concerned about unqualified people selling courses for nearly £1000.00. Yea they are smart knowledgeable, empathic but they are not trained! This specific person has wonderful helpful videos but she isn’t a clinician and she sells a course for £1000.00 that bothers me. Especially since her content is focused on trauma.
I think yes, but the NV or whatever is not borrowed, it is induced and the person who induces it does not want it back
Although my rational self does not believe it, my emotional self feels at death I will be going into the arms of Lord Jesus
Is there a chance that you will find the time for some integrative thoughts on perspectives of jungian analytical psychology?
yeah club Lusensky has just brought out a book called “CG Yonge, face-to-face with Christianity. He interviews various people, including me, and there is a dialogue between Jakob, Sean McGrath and me in that book. Online at “psychology and the Cross” Jakob dialogues with.Sean and me. I am mentioning Jung frequently in my recent writing. He had many interesting things to say, but he was certainly no Christien.
So glad I followed someone' s recommendation on Reddit to find your channel. It is the first video of yours I listened to, I did it twice and I am glad I did! I totally second your postulate against Beckers thesis! Even without being familiar with Nietzsche's personal confession the first thing that came to my mind is that if there is an assumption of an Ur-fear we can also assume the existence of an Ur- believe. It is actually easy to find out through the following question: The world is full of________. (Fill in the blank within 2 seconds). I think Becker himself was actually perturbed by his own uncertainty and not by death :). I am going to listen to all your other videos in due time. Very curious! Thank you!
I started putting them up in 2015 so some of them are pretty old and my views in some areas have moved on or clarified slightly. I guess the clearest statement of where I’m at now is in my 2023 small book on guilt
Thank you. Interesting paper. If Herr Becker were among us today, he might respond that positions like yours just support his case- that death anxiety is so deeply unconscious and the repression around it is so absolute, such protests are bound to arise in any effort to take on the subject of our own personal extinction. Also, how can you we say categorically that all anxieties are not reducible to death anxiety? It sounds simplistic, but how do we know it's not the case ?
See my video lecture on “trauma.” At 80 years old and (temporarily) a cancer survivor who updates his last will and testament yearly, I don’t think I’m in denial of death!
@@doncarveth 80?? You never seem to age, Don. But to your point (and with all due respect), isn't Becker talking about denial in the way Freud used "disavowal' ? We can certainly acknowledge death and plan/prepare for it. It's not a psychotic denial. I do think he was on to something...but , at the same time, I also agree with Jung that the unconscious is untroubled by our impending death, as evidenced by the dreams of the dying. Marie Von Franz saw the same thing among her patients. So perhaps it's both.
@@seymourtompkins although my rational self does not believe it my emotional self feels that when I die, I will be going into the arms of Lord Jesus
@@doncarveth ...and what your unconscious has to say about it is yet another matter :)
according to the Bible, creation is good, for Becker ... not so much.
You managed to make the topic boring.
Happy to come back...Reading Freud again, and Bruce Fink's introduction to Freud. A very interesting book, and a useful one.
What an intelligent guy
The book is excellent - especially when accompanied by these videos
I really enjoyed this. I like the various strands you introduced- namely from religion, literature and philosophy- as well of course psychoanalysis.
Thank you
Greatly appreciated.
Well done. I was always a fan of this book (and possibly also suffering from the same biases the author had), but you make a reasonable rejoinder
Thank you. I admire your openness to revising your views.
Is not the phallus in Lacan symbolic, as the signifier of significance, faith in the sybolic order or fear of absence? If so, how could he be patriarchal, especially when acceptance of castration is the medium for reclaiming subjectivity and overcoming narcissism, the specular ego?
To answer that would require a lot of dialogue, definitions of terms, etc.
16:40 “as a persecutory attack by an all bad object…” this seems to explain why NPD narcissists fear death so much.
The left hemisphere may need a name, but the right hemisphere does not.
I find this idea of "mature faith" hard to digest, as faith is always based on belief in supernatural.
No, there is a distinction between the Hellenistic and the Hebraic meanings of faith. The Hellenistic concerns belief; the Hebraic concerns, Trust. A mature faith has to do with Trust, not belief as in catechisms or propositions.. A person who does not believe in God can nevertheless have an attitude of trust towards self, others, and life itself.
@@doncarveth But trust in what? You cant just say that faith is trust, then its no longer faith. To me you are confusing two totally different things here.
@@doncarvethI see religions as safety valves for the paranoid core of humans, we need to have something to channel that into. This is how it can offer a stabilizing function for societies, that instead of breaking people apart it brings them together. Like collective projections instead of personal ones. Collective psychosis instead of personal delusion. Because its exactly paranoia that rips societies apart, thus the only way to handle it is to have common enemy. And religion can offer this in a constructive manner. There is always a supernatural aspect to religions, and thus faith. Trying to somehow make it something mature and sensible just to me sounds like taking away the only function it can have.
@@doncarvethbut why only distinguish between Hellenistic and Hebrew? The Roman meaning of faith (fides) is far vaster, plus it also means rope, which implies that we are connected if not interwoven in/ with "something".
@@sybersandy interesting
“Yet, at the same time, as the Eastern sages also knew, man is a worm and food for worms. This is the paradox: he is out of nature and hopelessly in it; he is dual, up in the stars and yet housed in a heart-pumping, breath-gasping body [...]" - Becker, Denial Wouldn't it be more appropriate - in light of the modern consequences of overconsumption, overpopulation, technological slavery, pollution/ecological disaster, apathy towards genocide, nuclear armament, religious/national fanaticism - to call man a termite?
Good to see you back, Donald! Looking forward to watching this lecture!
did you get a new barber, Don? Looking good
No, finally got back to my old one after cutting it myself during Covid years.
Welcome back! Thank you for this video. I was so excited to read this after loving Otto Rank's Beyond Psychology, but I found it so melancholic, as you say.
Thank you
Will always be waiting for the next upload, Thanks!
Glad to see you back on KZread! It's been awhile!
New video - fabulous
Thank you!
Thanks for this thoughtful piece, I was puzzled by Becker. If culture was a defensive illusion against death, but experiencing open, ephemeral life the real prize. Why did he write his opus at the very end of his short life? He alone had a cultural monument worth preserving? I surely missed a lot.
I relate that to philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe. According to Zapffe, one of the ways in which humans artificially limit the content of their consciousness is Sublimation which "is the refocusing of energy away from negative outlets, toward positive ones. The individuals distance themselves and look at their existence from an aesthetic point of view (e.g., writers, poets, painters)."
With all due respect, sir, Becker is right. And so is Schopenhauer. And Sophocles. And philosophical pessimism in general. God is not good and creation hell. I would very much like to hear a conversation between you and Sam Vaknin on this subject. "I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an absurd, but also a really wicked, way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the most unspeakable sufferings of mankind." You can throw as much psychology as you want at these authors, it's a cheap way to fallaciously defeat them, their philosophical position remains untouched, as it has for millennia. People just refuse to listen.
spoken with majesty worthy of the written material as always thanks dr carveth
Much appreciated
Missing your new videos tremendously ! Thank you :)
Professor, where have you been? Good you are here. Particularly that in this moment most of our societies are engaged in the pursuit of materialistic goals like National State, money and land, and became death cults. Good you vow for life. Welcome back!
Thank you. Yes, life and love
Thank you so much for this beauiful video ❤❤❤ very informarive