Civilization and Its Discontents Podcast Episodes

GREAT BOOKS 12: Sigmund Freud's Civilization and its Discontents, with Peter Brooks

Think About It - April 16, 2019 12:55 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings
We want to be happy, we want to get what we want, we want to love and be loved. But life, even when our basic needs are met, often makes us unhappy. You can't always get what you want, Freud noted in his 1930 short book, Civilization and its Discontents. Our desires are foiled not by bad luck, o...

Episode #13 - Civilization and Its Discontents

Books & Booze - July 31, 2018 21:26 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Episode #13 - Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud Guest: Tom Beck Booze: Lagunitas Aunt Sally Main topics: Sigmund Freud, religion, morality, and civilization Part 1 - Freud (~23 mins) 0:00:00 - Intro - Tom Beck 0:03:27 - Why Freud? 0:07:29 - This episode’s booze: Lagunitas Aunt Sa...

126. Maya Jasanoff (Historian) – Civilization and Its Discontents

Think Again – a Big Think Podcast - November 25, 2017 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 556 ratings
Jason Gots: I want to read you a quote: “For reasons which can certainly use close psychological inquiry the West seems to suffer deep anxieties about the precariousness of its civilization and to have a need for constant reassurance by comparison with Africa.” That’s Nigerian novelist Chinua Ac...

Episode 3 - Sid Meier's Civilization and its Discontents

Scholars At Play - March 10, 2017 00:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Sections (time = start of section): Intro - 0:00 Civ 5 - 2:46 Schut Article - 20:45 Galloway Chapter - 39:42 What's in Your System? - 1:01:46 -------------- Objects Discussed Game: Sid Meier's Civilization 5 (2010) Articles: "Strategic Simulations and Our Past: The Bias of Computer Games ...

Civilization and Its Discontents

Philosophy Now - October 12, 2011 16:45 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 78 ratings
Grant Bartley from Philosophy Now asks David Bell, President of the British Psychoanalytical Society, Edward Harcourt, Lecturer in Philosophy, Keble College, Oxford, and Alex Gath, anthropologist, about the contemporary relevance of Freud’s social theory. First broadcast on 11 October 2011 on Res...