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The Subversive Therapist

De: Andrew Archer
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  • This is not self-help! Andrew Archer, LICSW is a psychotherapist and father of three young children. The Subversive Therapist disrupts the Western notion of self within the cultural myth of hyper-individualism, while exploring personality development, Zen Buddhism, Transactional Analysis, and our relationship to the virtual world. Each episode contains psychological constructs to comprehend who we are and more importantly, who we are becoming in an impotent age of automation, hyper-stimulation, and precariousness.
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  • S4, Part 8, Wilhelm Reich, Socialization, & The Little Fascist

    S4, Part 8, Wilhelm Reich, Socialization, & The Little Fascist
    Jul 30 2024
    The psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, MD understood that a specific form of human socialization has created the fascist character via “armoring.” In his book The Mass Psychology of Fascism, Reich writes that the “mechanistic-mystical character of modern man” has produced “fascist parties, and not vice versa.” The character structure of modern human beings is the universal cause of fascism: “… “fascism” is only the organized political expression of the structure of the average man’s character, a structure that is confined neither to certain races or nations nor to certain parties, but is general and international. Viewed with respect to man’s character, “fascism” is the basic emotional attitude of the suppressed man of our authoritarian machine civilization and its mechanistic-mystical conception of life.” (xiii) Therefore, when we see a fascist “puffing himself up and has his chops full of slogans, let him be asked quietly and simply in public”: “What are you doing in a practical way to feed the nation, without murdering other nations? What are you doing as a physician to combat chronic diseases, what as an educator to intensify the child’s joy of living, what as an economist to erase poverty, what as a social worker to alleviate the weariness of mothers having too many children, what as an architect to promote hygienic conditions in living quarters? Let’s have no more of your chatter. Give us a straightforward, concrete answer or shut up!” (xvi) Recorded on 6/29/2023. References Paxton, R. (2005). The anatomy of fascism. Vintage Books: New York. Reich, W. (1980). The mass psychology of fascism. Ed. Mary Higgins and Chester M. Raphael (3rd edition). New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux. (orig. pub. in 1933) Visit MankatoTherapist.com for more information and to contact Andrew Archer.
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    49 m
  • S4, Part 7, No “Left” Left: Time for Revolution

    S4, Part 7, No “Left” Left: Time for Revolution
    Jul 26 2024
    In the book, The Anatomy of Fascism, Robert Paxton argues that “Fascists need a demonized enemy against which to mobilize followers, but of course the enemy does not have to be Jewish. Each culture specifies the national enemy.” (p. 37) The system is moving more and more to the Right with rage directed at liberalism and individualism. The Gender Identity game places transgender individuals as the new Other as the national enemy. However, this is a Media game and the Media games are meant to pacify us. The system is designed for in-fighting and pacification as opposed to the mobilizing passions of Fascism. The solution is Zen. Zen aims to convey the indescribable. Zen does not rely on words or scriptures or beliefs. In fact, this discriminating thinking (this/that) keeps us farther away from Zen. Intuitive knowledge (prajñā) and thought-less-ness (dhyāna) are not two not one. This description of “emptiness” implies everything at once (no obstruction) or direct experience. You have met this type of person: they are friendly and peaceful. Like a young child we must rely on intuitive knowledge to “be” the world rather than be a separate somebody: “me” and “the world.” In the social sphere, the “emptiness” of intuitive knowledge manifests as relational friendliness. With friendliness we add mercy to create relational peace. We are not two not one. The still point above opposites. This is in contrast with the symbiotic process of Fascism: the citizen is part of an enforced symbiosis with the state and they are void of a private self. Fascism was mass mobilization + violent provocations and manipulation for the cause of imperial war. Zen in practice is intimacy through peace-making. It requires “emptiness” (friendliness) + mercy. Recorded on 6/22/2023 References Hedges, C. (2010). Death of the liberal class. New York: Nation Books. Kaczynski, T. J. (2020). Anti-tech revolution: Why and how. Fitch & Madison: Arizona. Paxton, R. (2005). The anatomy of fascism. Vintage Books: New York. Ward, L. (2020). America’s racial karma: An invitation to heal. Parallax Press: Berkely, California. Visit MankatoTherapist.com for more information and to contact Andrew Archer.
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    1 h y 7 m
  • S4, Part 6, Gender Identity: Dialogic Process vs. Debate

    S4, Part 6, Gender Identity: Dialogic Process vs. Debate
    Jul 17 2024
    The Media game version of Gender Identity presents itself as a dialogic process. The interview--which is actually a debate--starts with the question, "What is a woman?" or "How many genders are there?" This game has similar dynamics as Climate Change because both are derivatives of the Ain't It Awful (AIA) game: "Ain't It Awful the oceans are acidifying?" or "Ain't It Awful puberty blockers for children?" However, the series of transactions is also a derivative of the Kick Me game. The gameplayer (e.g., interviewer) has an ulterior motive: to humiliate the other player (i.e., interviewee) by Kicking them and feeling morally self-righteous. If the interviewee is hooked into the game they feel Kicked, often negating their own provocational behavior. Additionally, the Gender Identity game is made possible based on the cultural instantiation of ego or self as "reality." This allows for other "real" identities such as gender to be embraced as constant or solid across time. Therefore, "gender" as a concept reinforces and maintains social hierarchies, e.g., patriarchy, which is why we should be talking more about sex than gender. The solution to these types of games is Adult ego state functioning (reality testing), which is what Buddhists refer to as "emptiness" or zen mind. Relationally speaking, the result of manifesting emptiness is friendliness. Instead of "me" and "you", we are not two not one. Pairing relational friendliness with mercy promotes peace and intimacy as opposed to "Kicking" people based on their political beliefs and self-presentations. Recorded on 6/15/2023 Audio clips from YouTube videos: “Christine Hamilton questions eco-protester Kai Bartlett over his group's methods” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89w8y5aSCqk "Your line of questioning is transphobic" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fed5RzXyU20 Visit MankatoTherapist.com for more information and to contact Andrew Archer.
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    1 h y 28 m
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