Psyche

Quique Autrey
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A psychotherapist explores topics relating to psychotherapy, philosophy, culture, and religion.  

  1. Ill at Ease

    1 ngày trước

    Ill at Ease

    In this episode, I use a question Rawlins asks John Grady Cole in All the Pretty Horses as a doorway into the feeling of being ill at ease in the world. I bring McCarthy into conversation with Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents, Peter Zapffe, and Thomas Ligotti to wrestle with the strange burden of consciousness, the ache of modern ennui, and the palliatives we need to cope with the sheer difficulty of existence. This is not an episode about finding a neat cure for the human condition. It’s about asking what it means to live honestly inside discomfort, to recognize that civilization both shelters and wounds us, and to find forms of friendship, art, ritual, love, humor, and courage that help us keep the fire going against the dark.

    1 giờ 3 phút
  2. The Ambiguous Nihilism of Cormac McCarthy

    2 ngày trước

    The Ambiguous Nihilism of Cormac McCarthy

    In this episode, I reflect on Vereen M. Bell’s essay “The Ambiguous Nihilism of Cormac McCarthy” and use it as a way into one of the biggest questions that haunts McCarthy’s work: is McCarthy simply a nihilist, or is something more complicated happening? I explore how McCarthy strips away easy meaning, cheap hope, and sentimental moral order, while still leaving us with beauty, attention, witness, mystery, and the fragile possibility of carrying something human through the darkness. This episode moves through McCarthy’s brutal landscapes, his refusal of easy answers, and the strange moral power of looking at the world without lying about it. Ultimately, I think McCarthy does not give us nihilism as a final answer. He gives us a passage through nihilism, asking what remains when the old guarantees fall apart — and whether, even then, we can still carry the fire.

    42 phút
  3. The Tragic Passage Into Adulthood

    2 ngày trước

    The Tragic Passage Into Adulthood

    In this episode, I reflect on rereading Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses as a coming-of-age novel and bring it into conversation with one of my favorite books from high school, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. I explore the tragic and beautiful passage into adulthood — the loss of innocence, the grief of seeing the world more clearly, and the difficult courage it takes to keep loving, working, and showing up anyway. I also connect these themes to my work as a therapist with adolescents and young adults, where therapy can become a kind of initiation space — a place to grieve what is lost, discover what is gained, and learn how to care less about the crowd while caring more about the right people. Along the way, I bring in the idea of la lucha — the struggle, the fight, the refusal to let the bastards get you down — as part of what adulthood asks of us.

    1 giờ
  4. Greater Evil and Possibly Some Good

    3 ngày trước

    Greater Evil and Possibly Some Good

    In this solo episode, I put Carl Jung and Cormac McCarthy into creative conversation around the idea that life is a battleground of opposites: good and evil, beauty and violence, devotion and despair. I reflect on Jung’s quote from Man and His Symbols, Petra Mundik’s reading of McCarthy and “diverging equity,” my current rereading of All the Pretty Horses, and why I still have this fantasy of one day teaching a course on the gnostic spirituality of Cormac McCarthy from a depth psychological perspective. I also bring in the series finale of Euphoria, which felt to me like a Cormac McCarthy short story in TV form: devastating, mythic, violent, and yet still holding onto a fragile glimmer of human goodness. This episode is less about giving answers and more about staying with the tension: if evil may be greater, what does it mean that there is still possibly some good?

    40 phút
  5. Cormac McCarthy, Hannah Arendt, & the Promise Against Fate

    4 ngày trước

    Cormac McCarthy, Hannah Arendt, & the Promise Against Fate

    In this episode, I reflect on Matthew Potts’ Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament, especially chapter 2, “Fate: Nietzsche against Holden.” Potts is quickly becoming one of my favorite readers of McCarthy because he brings a deeply theological imagination to the novels without reducing them to easy Christian answers. I explore Potts’ reading of fate, Judge Holden, Anton Chigurh, and the fragile possibility of something beyond violence. At the center of the episode is Hannah Arendt’s powerful emphasis on forgiveness and promise: forgiveness as the answer to the irreversibility of the past, and promise as the answer to the uncertainty of the future. This is an episode about McCarthy’s darkness, but also about the small signs that still matter: a wife’s hand, a stone trough, a father carrying fire, and the possibility that even in a world of blood and fate, human beings may still be capable of beginning again.

    32 phút
  6. Cormac McCarthy and the Crucible of Unanswered Questions

    5 ngày trước

    Cormac McCarthy and the Crucible of Unanswered Questions

    In this episode, I reflect on D. Marcel DeCoste’s Professing Darkness: Cormac McCarthy’s Catholic Critique of American Enlightenment, but I’m not approaching McCarthy from a Catholic confessional perspective. Instead, I’m interested in DeCoste’s insight that McCarthy may raise all the right religious questions without necessarily giving us clear or easy answers. I explore how McCarthy’s darkness, ambiguity, and moral seriousness connect to the crucible of therapy, where people often have to struggle with the question rather than have the answer handed to them too quickly. I also bring in a moment from Apple TV’s Shrinking, where Paul warns against meddling and solving clients’ problems for them, because doing so can rob them of the dignity of their own struggle and discovery.

    29 phút
  7. Cormac McCarthy's Muse

    6 ngày trước

    Cormac McCarthy's Muse

    In this episode, I reflect on the recent Vanity Fair article, “Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence,” and the complicated story of Augusta Britt, the woman who appears to have haunted and shaped parts of McCarthy’s fiction. Rather than idealizing McCarthy or reducing the story to a simple moral category, I try to sit with the tension: art and exploitation, rescue and possession, genius and harm, the romance of the muse and the reality of a vulnerable young woman whose life became part of a literary mythology. This is an episode about reading McCarthy without innocence, without worship, and without losing sight of the human being behind the myth.

    29 phút
  8. A Direct Apprehension of Reality

    30 thg 5

    A Direct Apprehension of Reality

    In this episode, I reflect on Petra Mundik’s A Bloody and Barbarous God: The Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy and the way her reading has deeply shaped my understanding of McCarthy’s underlying philosophy and spirituality. While McCarthy once described himself as a materialist, his fiction never feels flat or reductionistic. It feels charged, haunted, and almost sacramental in its attention to blood, fire, evil, mystery, and the strange persistence of goodness. I explore Mundik’s reading of McCarthy through Gnosticism, mysticism, Buddhism, and the Perennial Philosophy, while also being careful not to collapse McCarthy’s own beliefs into the voices of his fictional characters. I also share how conversations with my own therapist — who brought together analytic psychology and religious studies — opened me up to a very different understanding of Gnosticism than the one I had received in seminary. Rather than seeing it only as heresy, I began to see it as a powerful imaginative response to suffering, alienation, evil, and the feeling that this world is not quite our home. This episode is about McCarthy’s darkness, but also about the fire that remains inside it.

    36 phút
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A psychotherapist explores topics relating to psychotherapy, philosophy, culture, and religion.  

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  • Nhà sáng tạo
    Quique Autrey
  • Năm hoạt động
    2022 - 2026
  • Tập
    356
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    © Quique Autrey
  • Trang web chương trình
    Psyche

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