The crew sits down to discuss Denis Villeneuve's Dune! We break down the story of the film by combining our unique interests. Jordan brings his love of dialogue and understanding of film. Joe brings his view of psychology and symbolism to the characters and ideas presented. Finally, Erich brings attention to the technical aspects of the film. Overall Dune, is sci-fi masterfully executed with depth at many levels; you'll find a place for you to enjoy the movie.
Read MoreToday on the podcast, I'm joined by my friend, Joe Jackowski. Joe now holds a bachelor's from the University of Michigan in biopsychology cognition and neuroscience.
As he finished up his degree, he took it upon himself to continue exploring where his interests have taken him in psychology specifically. He's been exploring two very influential psychologists and psychotherapists, Erich Neumann and Camille Paglia.
So in this conversation, he lays out some of the ideas that he's been exploring for himself while using these greats before him to provide a foundation. In some sense, that's what we do in this conversation because we don't spend enough time looking back at humanity's past at the where the ways of being that we all can share or learn from at a symbolic level.
Read MoreMy guest today is long-time friend Joe Jackowski on today's episode. It was mostly us catching up as with the pandemic.
We have not had a lot of time interacting with each other cause he still is living near the University of Michigan. So this was when he was home for the Christmas break, roughly. We got to catch up on what we're reading and thinking about recently.
For Joe, he's been doing a lot of reading with Erich Neumann and Camille Paglia. Much of this conversation is around—both of their bodies of work and what he's been reading on their different writings or ponderings.
We get into different ideas about how humanity has built systems for itself and how. The systems elaborate over time, starting very simple and archaic to us now, modern people.
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