Metapolitics - Conversations
At metapolitics, we explore the hidden dimensions of politics that shape our world but often go unexamined. Hosted by Barry Richards and Mustafa Selek, this podcast delves into the psychological, cultural, and social forces underlying political behaviors and institutions.
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Darya Navidi (opens the original)
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Darya Navidi is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in Tehran, where she also hosts a podcast on psychological life in Iran. She spoke to Barry and Mustafa in late July, a few days after a new escalation between Iran and the United States and a night of explosions in the city. Psychoanalysis reached Iran through literature and translation long before anyone practised it there, and Persian had no settled word for the unconscious. The institutes that exist now work in isolation, many of th
Tom Derose (opens the original)
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What can psychoanalysis offer to public and political life, and what happens when a discipline built on the consulting room tries to step outside it? Tom DeRose is Research Manager at the Freud Museum, the house in Hampstead where Freud lived out his final year and where, uniquely in Britain, an institution has made it its mission to bring psychoanalytic ideas to a general audience. Barry and Mustafa talk with him about the museum in its fortieth year: its history and independence as a charity,
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