Online Seminar Series: Anguish and the Absurd

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Date & Time

Sat, Mar 05 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Address (map)

1129 Maricopa Highway #156

Online Seminar Series

Anguish and the Absurd –

Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud

Saturday, March 5, 2022

This series will explore the troubling world of the absurd through the writings of Kafka, Gogol, Camus, Sartre, Borges, Beckett, Bulgakov, and others.

“Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments, and impossible tasks. To bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures… There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.”

March 5 Reading:

Civilization and Its Discontents by Freud – the entire text

Schedule:

12:00-2:00PM PST

Tutors:

Paul Herder and Andy Gilman

Location:

Online. Register to receive the link.

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