#psychoanalysis

None of us are above the capacity to hate. It's sometimes easier to point a finger and judge people or groups who are different than us and hate them and blame them for how they live and move in the world. With all the love that we are capable of, we hold that same capacity to tear down those in our same species, in the futile effort to make ourselves feel better. In this weeks episode, I explore the concept of hate. Where it originates in our development, how it can show up, and what we can begin to do about it in our lives. At the end, I share a practice that we know and love that helps when coming to consciousness about our ability to hate and next steps to take on our shadow path. Please subscribe, follow, share, and leave a review! I hope you enjoy and I'll see you next time. 

Website: https://www.downwithmydemons.com/

To get in touch with Chloe, please email:

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VIDEOS: 

“What we can do about the culture of Hate” Sally Kohn

https://www.ted.com/talks/sally_kohn_what_we_can_do_about_the_culture_of_hate?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

“Who is the Ni$$%#” James Baldwin *Content Warning*

https://youtu.be/L0L5fciA6AU

“Empathy is not Endorsement” 

https://youtu.be/L0L5fciA6AU

“I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church: Here’s Why I left”

https://www.ted.com/talks/megan_phelps_roper_i_grew_up_in_the_westboro_baptist_church_here_s_why_i_left?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

RESOURCES:

Melanie Klein https://melanie-klein-trust.org.uk/theory/paranoid-schizoid-position/

TUNES:

“New Speedway Boogie” Grateful Dead
https://youtu.be/ucfnMES9u3c

"Black Rage" Lauryn Hill
https://youtu.be/mKZAYa8W448

“Let it Be” The Beatles
https://youtu.be/CTcb_33-DiI

"Strange Fruit" Billie Holiday
https://youtu.be/-DGY9HvChXk

“Killing in the Name” Rage Against the Machine
https://youtu.be/bWXazVhlyxQ

“AEnema” Tool
https://youtu.be/rHcmnowjfrQ

"You Outta Know" Alanis Morrisette
https://youtu.be/NPcyTyilmYY

"Creep" Radiohead (Cover)
https://youtu.be/hXlzci1rKNM

"Wish You Were Here" Pink Floyd (Cover)
https://youtu.be/rirDOIttODM

In late 1931 F. Scott Fitzgerald traveled to Hollywood for a second attempt to crack the lucrative movie market. While there he attended a party at the home of MGM studio chieftain Irving Thalberg and his wife, Norma Shearer, at which he performed a bit of drunken doggerel and embarrassed himself. Never one not to avail himself of autobiographical material, he quickly shaped a story about an emotional triangle between a "hack" screenwriter (Joel Coles) and a charismatic director (Miles Calman) and his actress/Pygmalion figure/wife (Stella). Because it addressed the theme of adultery frankly, the Saturday Evening Post rejected "Crazy Sunday," as did the somewhat racier Cosmopolitan, fearing the wrath of publisher William Randolph Hearst (who had his own "interest" in Hollywood, of course). Instead, the story appeared in H. L. Mencken's influential journal American Mercury, where it become the second of only two Fitzgerald stories to appear there. In this episode we explore the Hollywood background, connect "Crazy Sunday" to Fitzgerald's eventual attempt at a Hollywood novel (The Last Tycoon), note the prominence of psychoanalysis in the plot, and even speculate what Fitzgerald's disastrous lyrics to "Dog"---the poem he performed at that fateful party---might have sounded like with a little musical accompaniment. (Of course, it would have sounded craz-eee!).