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.
