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wtf is life
Dr. Max Kusovitsky
The Luxurious & Licentious Languages Liberally Locomoting Our Lugubrious Lives ft. Dr. Darren Haber
SEP 22, 202647 MIN
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Description
We think language describes reality. What if it's actually building the room you're stuck in?
This episode goes deep into psycholinguistics, Wittgenstein, and the strange architecture of the analytic mind — asking what happens when the words available to you become the walls around you. We talk about alexithymia not as a deficit but as a kind of exile: what it means to feel something with no linguistic door back out. And we look at analytic training itself as a slow, often disorienting process of being handed a new vocabulary — one that can either free you to think thoughts you didn't have language for, or quietly cage you inside someone else's theory.
Is language the thing that lets the soul speak, or the bars it speaks through? Probably both. That's the episode.
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