2020 Summer Special

We could have made a breezy 'Top 10 Tips to Improve your Mental Health' summer special. But of course we didn't. We instead came up with our Top 10 psychoanalytical questions for 2020, because a totally neutral, satisfactory state of consciousness is necessarily hard work to achieve against the inevitable oppression of psychic entropy at the best of times, let alone in a global pandemic and existential cultural chaos. It involves trawling through giggles, news about France ('James Finds Himself, Again!' The sequel no one asked for…), the tradition of the Sack Game, and the following complex topics:SuicideThe empirical or subjective nature of sense dataPeak experiencePsychedelicsPhysical displacementThe problems with modelling mental dataWhat things can a psychoanalyst know?Thinking in words, pictures and soundsGiving and taking offence (hopefully you'll be offended by something we say, or else we'll have to try harder next time)…and a teaser of what we've already started recording for season seven: Carl Rogers vs the Psychopaths.You're welcome.Top 10 jazzy music credit:Disco Metropolis by Vyra (soundcloud.com/vyramusic)Creative Commons Attribution 3.0Sack Game music credit:The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, archive.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.