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Society and Me #4: Villains, Anti-heros, and why we can't look away (according to Freud and Jung)
Walter White, Don Draper, Tony Soprano.
These are not "good guys". The antihero is a character who's a fucking asshole. Deficient in every social aspect level society finds essential to warding off anarchy but some part of them reaches us.
However there are baddies who are just plain bad and we can’t look away. There’s no catchy songs to defuse the level of violence we witness with a truly terrible malefactor. So what's the draw?
In this episode Amanda and John discuss the psychological theories behind what makes outlaws so tantalizing for us.
*Trigger Warning*
In this episode we discuss...
Violence-Mutilation-Rape-Brainwashing-Child Abuse-Childhood trauma-Hero complex-PTSD-I mispronounce Carl Jung a lot
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By Friends of the Show, Amanda AmbroggioWalter White, Don Draper, Tony Soprano.
These are not "good guys". The antihero is a character who's a fucking asshole. Deficient in every social aspect level society finds essential to warding off anarchy but some part of them reaches us.
However there are baddies who are just plain bad and we can’t look away. There’s no catchy songs to defuse the level of violence we witness with a truly terrible malefactor. So what's the draw?
In this episode Amanda and John discuss the psychological theories behind what makes outlaws so tantalizing for us.
*Trigger Warning*
In this episode we discuss...
Violence-Mutilation-Rape-Brainwashing-Child Abuse-Childhood trauma-Hero complex-PTSD-I mispronounce Carl Jung a lot