The Religious Studies Podcast

The Religious Studies Podcast

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The Religious Studies Podcast episodes

  • Paul Ricoeur on Freud's Psychology of Religion

    In this episode we discuss a few sections in Ricoeur's collection of essays titled "The Conflict of Interpretation".

    We discuss why Ricoeur sees Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud as masters of suspicion and how that should help us think about religion, ourselves, and our modern world.

    • Intro (00:00:45)
    • From Descartes to Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud (00:04:45)
    • The Function of Religion in Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud (00:19:19)
    • We are All Armchair Psychologists (00:38:05)
      • 1 hr 1 min
    • Max Stirner's The Unique and Its Own, Deep Dive Part 2

      We begin this episode going over Stirner’s critique of philosophers and the Enlightenment. It’s important to keep in mind that whatever problem he has with religion, he also has that problem with people too focused on thinking or capital T truth. As he says, a shout or a jump is as good at relieving anxiety as studying any book.

      We also look at the overlap in thought between Stirner and Foucault, Gabriel Marcel, Freud, and Girard. For example, both Stirner and Marcel think you should not ask what are humans? You should ask: who am I? And regarding connections between Girard and Stirner, we look at the human propensity to always create a sacred and always let our desires overtake us.

      We end the episode reflecting on what is sacred today? What do we let dominate us? And what is our scapegoat?

      00:04:10 Stirner’s Critique of Philosophy and the Enlightenment

      00:28:25 Connections between Stirner and Foucault, Marcel, Freud, and Girard.
      01:30:45 Stirner’s Stoicism and our Contemporary World

      1 hr 43 min
    • Max Stirner's The Unique and its Own, Deep Dive Part 1

      Topics Discussed:

      • The relationship between particulars and universals
      • Demon posession and god possession
      • The religious discontent with the present
      • The Sacred and when ideas overtake us
      • When our future self overtakes us

        • Sections:

        Intro (00:00:34)
        Basic Overview of Stirner's Arguments (00:05:55)
        Stirner's Critique of Religion (00:38:20)

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        Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494

        1 hr 15 min
      • Rene Girard's I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, Deep Dive

        Topics Discussed:

        • Jesus
        • Satan
        • Philosophy
        • Peter Thiel
        • Curtis Yarvin
        • Psychology
        • Desire

          • Sections:

          (00:01:20) Intro
          I. (00:06:05) Overview of Girard's theory and his interpretation of two bible myths
          II. (00:46:32) Satan as the representation of the mimetic cycle of desire
          III. (01:10:33) Demonology and Psychology, plus our modern fixation on victims

          Episode References:

          Technology, Communisim, and the Brown Scare - Mencius Moldbug
          Tyler Cowen Interview of Peter Thiel
          Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter

          Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494

          1 hr 41 min
        • Rene Girard's The Scapegoat, Deep Dive

          Topics Discussed:

          • The Bible
          • John the Baptist
          • Rene Girard
          • Freud
          • Psychology

            • Sections:

            Intro (00:01:05)
            Girard's General Theory and the story of Caiaphas (00:05:20)
            The Beheading of John the Baptist (00:34:05)
            Peter's Denial (01:02:03)
            Demons of Gerasa (01:18:09)
            The Supernatural Inspiration of the Bible (01:48:45)

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            Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494

            1 hr 54 min
          • Freud's Moses and Monotheism, Deep Dive

            Topics Discussed:

            • God
            • Psychoanalysis
            • Moses
            • Judaism
            • Religion
            • Freud
            • Atheism
            • Darwin

              • Sections:

              Intro (00:00:55)
              I. Moses the Egyptian (00:05:24)
              II. Psychoanalyzing Human History (00:24:56)
              III. Why Freud Wrote about Moses (00:57:53)

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              Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494

              1 hr 33 min
            • Rene Girard, Barbie, and Identity

              Topics Discussed:

              • Barbie movie
              • Identity
              • Girard
              • Feminism

                • Sections:

                intro (00:00:20)
                Girard and Identity (00:16:15)
                Jokes reveal the truth (00:31:30)
                The Daughter (00:46:50)
                Motherhood (00:54:20)

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                Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494

                1 hr 15 min
              • Friedrich Nietzsche's The AntiChrist Deep Dive

                Topics Discussed:

                • Nietzsche
                • Jesus
                • Atheism
                • Christianity

                  • Sections:

                  • Intro (00:04:33)
                  • Nietzsche's Philosophy and Christianity (00:10:37)
                  • Jesus (00:37:15)
                  • Power and Christianity (00:44:16)
                  • The Antichrist (01:00:15)

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                    Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494

                    1 hr 14 min

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