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Paul Ricoeur on Freud's Psychology of Religion

Dec 29, 20240Season 1Ep. 23
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Episode description

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)
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