Our guest argues that Saw was born out of the geopolitical atmosphere of the early 2000s — that it reflects the anxieties and moral ambiguities of a post-9/11 world. Together, we’ll explore how the film’s themes, imagery, and characters may serve as allegory for that era’s fears, power dynamics, and obsession with justice and punishment.

Sources:

Statistics about American feelings following 9/11:

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/09/02/two-decades-later-the-enduring-legacy-of-9-11/

Literature on Saw franchise + torture porn genre and the post-9/11 world:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272208157_The_Saw_franchise_and_the_representation_of_terror_in_post-911_American_film

https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/see-saw-movies-essays/

Abu Ghraib:

https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/shock-insecurity-and-endless-war-how-911-changed-america-and-world

Sources:

FDR's Four Freedoms:

https://www.fdrlibrary.org/four-freedoms

Tune in next week when we will discuss Fascism and Working towards the Fuhrer, especially in the context of today's political climate.

Books mentioned:

An Infantile Disorder by Vladimir Lenin (this is not a book rec, but rather mentioned to display Lenin's transition from left to right)

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/

Black Shirts and Reds by Michael Parenti (my godfather and I are reading this book together now!)

https://citylights.com/city-lights-published/blackshirts-reds-rational-fascism/

Sources:

Liberal vs Leftist:

https://www.lawrentian.com/archives/1022577

Gulag:

https://www.history.com/articles/gulag

Base and Superstructure:

https://www.ijhssi.org/papers/v2(3)/version-1/L0203017577.pdf

Book Recommendations:

On the Origin of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood

https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ellen-meiksins-wood-the-origin-of-capital-a-longer-view.pdf

Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson

https://uncpress.org/9781469663722/black-marxism-revised-and-updated-third-edition/

On this episode, we are going to be discussing Erik Erikson's stages of psychodevelopment, neurodiversity, and yoga as a form of therapy. Along the way, Olive makes several inferences about disability politics and societal pressure to be "successful." She also has some kind words for anyone who feels like they on they phone too much. No shade to anyone who is lucky enough to be in a long-term relationship and is getting ready to get married before 26, but hopefully y'all can empathize with those of us who will NOT be getting married before 26.

Thank you Olive for being a fantastic guest; your insight and nuanced perspective were sooo appreciated. And thank you all for listening <3

Sources:

Erik Erikson

https://www.verywellmind.com/erik-eriksons-stages-of-psychosocial-development-2795740

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK556096/

B.F. Skinner and Ivan Pavlov

https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Psychology/Introductory_Psychology/General_Psychology_for_Honors_Students_(Votaw)/01%3A_History_of_Psychology/1.06%3A_Pavlov_Watson_Skinner_And_Behaviorism

Temple Grandin

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2014/11/5-questions--temple-grandin-discusses-autism--animal-communicati.html

Neurological benefits from dance

https://hms.harvard.edu/news-events/publications-archive/brain/dancing-brain

Dance in indigenous cultures

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8814356/

In part one of our podcast, we are going to be diving into the history of psychiatry, from the ancient practice of trephining, to the "wandering uterus," to the four humors, to lobotomies. We discuss the traditionalist Chinese medicine concept of "yeet hay," and how cultural conformity disproportionately pushed women into treatments like lobotomies. We discuss our qualified critiques of the DSM-5 (the 5th edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders- used to diagnose mental disorders). Finally, we discuss some of Carl Jung's theories and how he integrated spirituality. Tune in next week for a discussion of the stages of psychosocial development, neurodiversity, and more!

Sources:

Trephining

https://oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/77918/student/?section=9

Yeet hay

https://magazine.circledna.com/demystifying-yeet-hay/

Ancient egyptians and wandering uterus https://frontlinegenomics.com/womens-health-from-the-wandering-uterus-to-the-21st-century/#:~:text=Ancient%20Egyptians%20and%20Greeks%20believed,deemed%20inappropriate%20in%20a%20woman.

The four humors 

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/shakespeare-and-the-four-humors/index.html#!

Lobotomies

https://tidsskriftet.no/en/2022/12/essay/lessons-be-learnt-history-lobotomy

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15629160

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3640229/

Lobotomies and women

https://frontlinegenomics.com/womens-health-from-the-wandering-uterus-to-the-21st-century/#:~:text=Ancient%20Egyptians%20and%20Greeks%20believed,deemed%20inappropriate%20in%20a%20woman.

List of reasons for admission to a West Virginia Hospital for the Insane 

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/list_of_reasons_for_admission_to_an_insane_asylum/

back from the borderline episode

https://shows.acast.com/back-from-the-borderline/episodes/psychiatry-and-big-pharma-exposed-institutional-corruption

Homosexuality and the DSM https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/diversity/education/best-practice-highlights/working-with-lgbtq-patients#:~:text=In%20the%20context%20of%20Psychiatry,new%20understanding%20and%20treatment%20LGBTQ.

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/sapir-whorf-hypothesis

Carl Jung 

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2755140/

https://www.simplypsychology.org/carl-jung.html

https://www.thecollector.com/carl-jung-controversial-idea-what-is-collective-unconscious/

https://www.simplypsychology.org/freud-vs-jung.html

Richter Rat Experiment

https://www.vailhealthbh.org/about/news/wolfington-the-power-of-hope

Thank you all for joining us on this journey of self-discovery and understanding through Madoka Magica. Thank you to Zoey for joining me in hosting and for being "my very best friend :3"