Join us for a discussion about Michael’s latest article “Orpheus Undead,” based on the movie Orpheus by French surrealist film-maker Jean Cocteau. What is surrealism? What is a true artist? How do we tell a genuine artist from a genuine fake? Where do our ideas come from? Do we own our thoughts and ideas, or do they possess us? How much are we consciously aware of? What’s the difference between progress and regress? What are the natural paradoxes of life? This and more…
Program References
Jean Cocteau
Surrealism
Myth of Orpheus
Courtly Love
Troubadour
Tristan & Isolde
Dervish/Sufism
Maenads
Abjection
Things to Come (Movie)
Fury (Movie)
Suggested Reading
Orpheus Undead
Schopenhauer’s Error
The Monstrous Feminine
Civilization/Discontents
Adultism (Book)
Dragon Mother (Book)
Dragon Mother (Articles)
Say No to Psychology
Sexual Personae
Related Podcasts
Monstrous Feminine 1
Monstrous Feminine 2
Shopenhauer’s Error
Dragon Mother (Premium)
Dragon Mother (A Conversation)
Dragon Mother (with Michael Black)
Women & the Unconscious Series
Four Planes of Child Development
Radical Unschooling
Facing Adultism
It is one of the human animal’s great tragedies that it has set up these ideals as the goals to be striven for, as the highest aims of civilized life, but at the same time, it has completely blocked the way to their achievement – Wilhelm Reich
We shall soon see that the trouble does not lie with the human “badness” or “sinfulness” but with the established beliefs and institutions which so persistently, over millennia, and so cruelly at times, have made it impossible to get at the naturally given morality in the human infant – Wilhelm Reich
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