Today we’re kicking off a new series called ‘The Psychological Significance of the Classic Myths’, starting with the Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
We’ll discuss the dangers of creating your own reality, taking risks, hubris, arrogance, living a life of virtue, sin, the fall of Lucifer, the Dunning Krueger Effect, poetry from W. H. Auden and William Carlos Williams, paintings by Titian and Brueghel, and much more.
Ep 15 - The Q&A Show: Answering Your Questions About Books, Reading & Literature
Ep 14 - The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea (Yukio Mishima)
Ep 12 - How to Talk to Your Shadow: Practical Tips from Jungian Psychology
Ep 10 - Aristotle's Virtues: Ambition and Good Temper
Ep 9 - How to Read and Appreciate Short Stories
Ep 8 - How to Read the Complete Works of Shakespeare in a Year
Ep 7 - Aristotle's Virtues: Magnificence and Pride
Ep 6 - Aristotle’s Virtues: Courage, Temperance, Generosity
Ep 5 - The Poetry of Rumi
Ep 4 - The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
Ep 3 - Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Ep 2 - Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
Ep 1 - The Prophet (Khalil Gibran)
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