
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


In this episode, I reflect on the 2017 Electric Dreams adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s “The Commuter” alongside Adam Phillips’ idea of the unlived life. Macon Heights — the town that never officially existed — becomes a powerful metaphor for the life we imagine would have been smoother, more coherent, less burdened.
Drawing from my clinical work with autistic clients, I explore whether our defining “symptoms” or fractures are actually structural — and what it would mean to remove them. If you could erase the wound that shaped you, would you still be yourself?
This is an episode about fantasy, identity, and the unsettling cost of chasing a seamless life.
By Quique Autrey5
1515 ratings
In this episode, I reflect on the 2017 Electric Dreams adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s “The Commuter” alongside Adam Phillips’ idea of the unlived life. Macon Heights — the town that never officially existed — becomes a powerful metaphor for the life we imagine would have been smoother, more coherent, less burdened.
Drawing from my clinical work with autistic clients, I explore whether our defining “symptoms” or fractures are actually structural — and what it would mean to remove them. If you could erase the wound that shaped you, would you still be yourself?
This is an episode about fantasy, identity, and the unsettling cost of chasing a seamless life.

91,328 Listeners

15,238 Listeners

2,119 Listeners

1,460 Listeners

130 Listeners

316 Listeners

511 Listeners

582 Listeners

599 Listeners

356 Listeners

3,621 Listeners

58 Listeners

205 Listeners

289 Listeners

233 Listeners