52 - Video Games and the Psyche: Agency, Anxiety, and Upbuilding
Video games are not only amusement. They are structured existential experiences: forks that press agency, anxiety, identity, desire, and failure on a real self, whether the world on screen is "primary" or secondary.In this Mythic Mind Games season opener for Exploring the Psyche, Dr. Andrew Snyde...
190 - Exploring the Psyche: The Importance of Home
In this Mythic Mind Exploring the Psyche conversation, Dr. Andrew Snyder talks with licensed therapists Jeremy Key and Tyler Finders about the value of home: roots and responsibility, the fear of committing to the wrong thing, hobbits who leave the Shire in order to save it, and C.S. Lewis’s remi...
29 - Dead Poets Society: Kierkegaard and the Self That Cannot Come Home
Watch the video:https://youtu.be/iafKQXrXcsEDead Poets Society is famous for boys standing on desks, and it is also the story of a boy who never stands again. The familiar fork (seize the day against crushing tradition, poetry against conformity, the beloved teacher against the rigid father) is r...
191 - Exploring the Psyche: Identity and Becoming a Self
Watch the video:https://youtu.be/iXr8KuutfW0When Boethius lost everything, Lady Philosophy told him the wound beneath the wound: you have forgotten who you are. That diagnosis still lands. Who are you when the roles, tests, and labels fall away?In this Mythic Mind Exploring the Psyche conversatio...
192 - Exploring the Psyche: Why Socialism Is Poison to the Soul
Watch the video:https://youtu.be/Juoxi8xM5eQSocialism is often sold as justice, necessity, or the only way to win. This Exploring the Psyche episode asks a harder question: what does that bargain do to the soul?In Mythic Mind episode 192, Dr. Andrew Snyder takes up a live Right-wing temptation ar...
53 - Red Dead Redemption 2: Arthur Morgan, Ivan Ilyich & Memento Mori (revisit)
Watch the video:https://youtu.be/ynV50tCh6ocRed Dead Redemption 2's Arthur Morgan and Tolstoy's Ivan Ilyich both teach memento mori: facing death can renew how you live. After Arthur's tuberculosis diagnosis he turns from outlaw vanity toward an honorable redemption; after Ivan's fatal illness he...
30 - Rashomon: How the Psyche Rewrites the Truth
Watch the video:https://youtu.be/pvdWNQkWlb4We tend to think that the past is fixed in memory and that our eyes simply tell us the truth. Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon shows something more unsettling: people can witness the same event and remember it differently, not only because they lie, but becaus...
193 - Kierkegaard on Man's Highest Perfection
Watch the video:https://youtu.be/lJXOC2PfR3MWe are pressed to dissolve into the mass, to wear a demographic as a self, or to win identity from whatever community we most esteem. Kierkegaard’s answer cuts the other way: the glory of the human being is to recognize utter dependency on God.In Mythic...
54 - Grief in Video Games
Watch the video:https://youtu.be/Jlc-KB1Oa2kVideo games do not merely distract from sorrow. Through time spent with characters, player agency, and participation in sub-creation, they can become a unique art form for facing grief, mortality, and what loss teaches the soul.In this fellowship conver...
194 - The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Am I Guilty?
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/mIgiz_wQbXkWe all know we will die one day. It is another thing to consider that it is I who am going to die.In this Mythic Mind conversation, Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) is joined by David and Jack to read Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan...
