Episodes
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S2 Ep12: Episode 2.12: The Dark Night of the Soul
We are sending out this Season Finale on the longest night before the new decade; it seems that we are in synchronicity with the cycle of seasons and politics and history. (Synchronicity is an idea of Carl Jung’s, but we’ll have to get to him next Season!) In this episode, we leave our familiar...
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S2 Ep11: Episode 2.11: Session with a Listener – Lawyers in Love
We finally have our first episode with a loyal listener! Kathleen is an attorney who wanted to talk with Dr. JKB about The 8 Stages of Life, Episode 2.5. She wondered if she has missed out on the Sixth Stage and wants to know how to fix her love life. This episode is the culmination of the…
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S2 Ep10: Episode 2.10: Reason – The Fourth Testament of the Psychonaut
The Testament of Reason is the second of the two Testaments of Faith; together with the Testament of Birthright, it is a lighthouse that guides us through the darkness of our inner worlds. It is the “ultimate” Testament, the one that all the previous Testaments lead up to. The Fourth Testament...
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S2 Ep9: Episode 2.9: The Bodily Ego – Marilyn Monroe and the Orgasm Collector
In our last episode, Dr, JKB and Dr Clarice Kestenbaum focused on the most Freudian of body parts; in this episode, we bring in the whole body and explore its effect on how we see ourselves, how we show ourselves, and how we understand ourselves. “The Bodily Ego” was an idea that Freud mentions...
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S2 Ep8: Episode 2.8: Castration Anxiety – The Cure for Poison Pee
Like “anal retentive,” “oral fixation,” and “penis envy,” Castration Anxiety has mostly become a joke today. This idea of Sigmund Freud’s has become a reason to dismiss psychoanalytic ideas as antiquated, irrelevant, and even sexist. But in this episode, we get a little help from our friend, the...
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S2 Ep7: Episode 2.7: Models of the Mind – A Catwalk to the Unconscious
In this episode, we go “back to basics,” and explore the original maps of the mind that psychoanalysis is based on. Where models and fashion burst into popular consciousness in the 1990s with Ru Paul, Right Said Fred, and “Absolutely Fabulous,” the 1890s were when Freud developed his models that...
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S2 Ep6: Episode 2.6: The Principle of Multiple Function - A Rule of Inner World Magic
Every world, whether real or Sci-Fi or fantasy, has principles that tell us how things work in that world. Our inner worlds are no different. The Principle of Multiple Function tells us that each psychic act has not one or two, but exactly eight mental functions that it must perform. That may…
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S2 Ep5: Episode 2.5: The Eight Stages of Man – On Vikings and Butterflies
Millennia ago, Hippocrates wrote, “Art is Long, Life is Short.” Well, this episode is long, but the concept of the Eight Stages of Man gives us insight into how the cycle of life unfolds, however long or short life may be. In this episode, we turn once again to the second generation of...
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S2 Ep4: Episode 2.4: Narcissism - "You Probably Think This Episode Is About You."
Q: What do President Trump and daffodils have in common? A: They've both been called the name of a Greek myth. It seems that we hear about Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder all the time these days, especially as an accusation, but what does being called "a Narcissist" really even...
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S2 Ep3: Episode 2.3: Return to the Transitional Space with Dr. Clarice
We've gotten a ton of feedback that last season's episode on The Transitional Space was very helpful, particularly for the painters, and poets, and composers among you. So we are going to travel back to the "in-between" with my psychoanalytic fairy godmother and senior stateswoman of magical...
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S2 Ep2: Episode 2.2: The Ultimate Superpower – Projective Identification
From the gym to the boardroom to the nursery, human beings are always interacting; and always dealing with each other's psychological baggage. (Except for infants, who are the only humans with no baggage.) Especially when things get tense, knowing what we bring to the table, versus what the other...
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S2 Ep1: Episode 2.1: Birthright – The Third Testament of the Psychonaut
From "baskets of deplorables" to Saint Augstine's doctrine of "Total Depravity," it seems that finger-pointing and paranoia are often what we expect of one another. Finding the "light" can be difficult even in ordinary times, and impossible in times of hate and rage and hopelessness. The…
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BONUS EPISODE: Real-Life Wonder Woman: Clarice Kestenbaum, M.D.
We're still in hibernation mode and getting ready for Season 2. But halfway to spring, we are bringing out a very special bonus episode, just in time for Imbolc, the festival of newborns and the future! This is the podcast's first interview. Dr. Clarice Kestenbaum was recently introduced to the...
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Active Curiosity – The Second Testament of the Psychonaut
From the Spanish Inquisition to political correctness, curiosity has never had an easy time. Just ask the cat, the one that curiosity killed. Active Curiosity is the favorite question of little children, the one that drives their mothers crazy, "Why?" The Testament of Active Curiosity is the…
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Neutrality 2.0 -- The "Other" Psychonaut
It's a "meta" episode this time, Psychonauts! We apply the First Testament of the Psychonaut, Neutrality, to the other definition of Psychonaut. That is, a person who travels consciousness with the use of hallucinogenic substances. From Joe Rogan to Harvard Divinity School, psychedelics are…
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Dreams
From the Book of Genesis to HBO, dreams are everywhere. But do they mean anything, really? Is it even useful to think about our dreams? Dreams are not just random neuronal firing; our brains are way too elegant. Dreams are the language of our unconscious, which thinks about our daily lives just...
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Dynamic Conflict
This is a big one, Psychonauts! From Anna O. in 1895 to Madonna in 1985, the concept of Dynamic Conflict explains (almost) everything. Without conflict, we wouldn't have movies or politics or comic books or economics or anything interesting in life. But Dynamic Conflict is the kind of conflict we...
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The Six Testaments of The Psychonaut
What does Euclidian Geometry have to do with Hinduism? Nothing, except that each has basic principles that serve as its unbreakable foundation. Whether spiritual or scientific, every effort to understand our world needs a foundation, and the Six Testaments of the Psychonaut are ours. Like The...
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The Oedipus Complex – Of Forbidden Fruits and Triangles
All little boys want to kill their fathers and marry their mothers. Wait, what, really? These days, the idea that we go through an Oedipus complex usually just elicits an eye roll; though Freud once considered it the cause of all human neurosis. Although nothing is ever that simple, we should…
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Transitional Space – The Magic of the “In-Between”
What do Teddy bears and the Catholic Eucharist have in common? Why was Stan and Kyle's saving Imaginationland the most important thing they ever could do for South Park and the world? Transitional Space is hard to describe, but we go searching from post-war London to avant-garde Lesbian comic...
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Neutrality - The First Testament of the Psychonaut
What does Freud’s daughter have in common with Jesus and the Buddha? Why do the words “normal” and “should” signal treacherous waters as we steer through our inner worlds? In this episode, we learn about the first, and most fundamental, of The Six Testaments of The Psychonaut, the principles that...
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The Positions of Melanie Klein
What does a bad break up have to do with immigration policy? Why is today's Superman less perfect but more "Super?" In this episode, we explore the Paranoid Position and the Depressed Position, ways that we have of managing our fears of being attacked, ideas about good and evil, and why sadness…
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Optimal Frustration
What does dropping out of graduate school have to do with Goldilocks? How do you know when to "jump in the deep end," or wade in slowly? Even more difficult, how do you know when to push your kids or ease up? Optimal Frustration is a way to get out of this "either-or" thinking and create real...
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The Return of the Repressed
We find out what Viennese housewives have in common with the Democratic National Committee. We throw in a Guillermo del Torro reference and find out why those who forget the past are doomed to be haunted by it. The Return of the Repressed was described by Sigmund Freud in 1896, but this idea...
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The Psychonaut Show Launches!
"The Psychonaut Show" explores the dark and hidden parts of our minds. Dr. JKB, psychiatrist, child specialist, and psychoanalyst, hosts the podcast whose mission is to find tools that will help us navigate these strange worlds inside each of us. Using the ideas of thinkers going back to Sigmund...
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