Ep. 9: Can Pleasure be Trusted?

Listen to this episode on Spotify here, or Apple Podcasts here. The key points in this "speaking":

• Why is our culture so suspicious of pleasure?

• The darkness of the other's body— that the other remains uncontrollable and uninhabitable—reveals a fundamental separation, is a source of anxiety. In response, we try to control the chaos of the other's free and sovereign body.

• And there is a sense in which all objects of pleasure are infinite. Human desires are beyond the simple desires of other animals, and we seem dangerously driven towards insatiable pleasure.

• All our idols (food, sex, love, learning, even God) must die on the way to reality, though everything real resurrects in new ways.

• My "miraculous" experience with intuitive eating.

• Most of us live with a psychological rift between the disciplinarian and the child in our head.

• Developmental ethics: where do rules end? Can intuition be trusted? How do we know our desires are "good"?

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