Episode 410
/404/ Emotion Sickness: The Politics of Feelings (IV) ft. Catherine Liu (sample)
April 16, 202430m 57s
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Show Notes
On melodrama and the bourgeois subject.
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We're back with the next installment of our series on the "emotional turn". Alex talks to Catherine Liu about whether politics is staged in a "melodramatic" fashion today.
- What is the bourgeois subject, why was it good, and where did it go?
- What is melodrama?
- Does public crying make us feel connected? Is it all Oprah's fault?
- Why is psychoanalysis the solution to, not the cause of, therapy culture?
- How is indignation used today? Is the political scene just villains and victims?