A series of recorded conversations exploring our encounters with contemporary ideas — anxiety, the body, love, creativity, and more.
Episode 1The conversation delves into the multifaceted nature of anxiety, discussing its utility and harm, historical understanding, societal influences, and psychoanalytic insights. It also explores anxiety in relation to the body, mind, and society.
Episode 2How the arrival of large language models is reshaping the conceptual landscape around artificial intelligence — from distant abstraction to everyday presence, provoking new feelings, hopes, and anxieties.
Episode 3The body appears everywhere in contemporary debate. We slow down to notice how we use the concept, how we feel about it, and what is at stake when we reference bodies.
Episode 4What do we mean when we speak of creativity? The conversation explores how the concept operates across art, work, therapy, and political life.
Episode 5What does it mean to receive a diagnosis? The conversation examines the concept from clinical, social, and political angles — what diagnoses do, who they serve, and what they obscure.
Episode 6The conversation explores ecotherapy as both concept and practice — the relationship between mental health, bodies, and the natural environment.
Episode 7What do we mean by love? The conversation explores the concept across its many registers — romantic, political, therapeutic, and philosophical.
In-depth conversations with thinkers, clinicians, and practitioners working at the edges of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and politics.
An interview with Dr Patrick Ntsime exploring decolonial thought, psychoanalysis, and practice in South Africa and beyond.
An interview with Carolina Besoain, exploring themes at the intersection of psychoanalysis, politics, and decolonial thought.
An interview with Chris Oakley, exploring psychoanalysis, politics, and the questions that animate radical practice.
An interview with Gordon Isaacs on psychoanalysis, politics, and practice.