In this episode, Joe and Taylor dig into psychoanalysis and Freud's "Beyond the Pleasure Principle". A lot of ground is covered: the death drive; repetition; automatism; the performative and speculative merits of psychoanalysis. What is the value that analysis adds to our lives? (Phaedrus looms here in the background as well, and the status of paranoia...)

Recommended Reading:

"Beyond the Pleasure Principle", Sigmund Freud

"Phaedrus" by Plato

See also Joe's "Phaedrus Beyond": https://fractalontology.wordpress.com/2018/09/22/phaedrus-beyond