Emotional Politics, with Omar Kholeif and Jonathan Sklar

<strong>Podcast</strong>: <a href="https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/on-opinion-parlia-x9hXRoSlZCs/">On Opinion</a> (LS 33 &middot; TOP 5% <a href="https://www.listennotes.com/listen-score/"><small>what is this?</small></a>)<br><strong>Episode</strong>: <a href="https://www.listennotes.com/e/d0f64d70533e407bb90f29ceea9a4462/">Emotional Politics, with Omar Kholeif and Jonathan Sklar</a><br><strong>Pub date</strong>: 2021-06-30<br><br><img src="https://production.listennotes.com/podcasts/on-opinion-parlia-visLQWFAzCN-x9hXRoSlZCs.300x300.jpg" width="150" height="150"></img><br><h3>S2 E25: On Emotion</h3><blockquote><em>“The world that we live in today is fuelled by heightened emotion…”</em></blockquote><p>Over the course of these two seasons of On Opinion, we’ve looked at opinions through the lens of philosophy, psychology, social science, anthropology and evolution. But one area we’ve missed is that of feeling.</p><p>Omar Kholeif and Jonathan Sklar take very different approaches to understand the world we live in, but both see emotion as something that can affect individuals&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;collective groups.</p><p>Jonathan feels that you can transpose psychoanalysis, which is designed for the individual, to a culture and a moment in history. Omar is convinced not only that ‘ages’ have emotions, dominant leitmotifs of feeling that impact everyone around them, but also that today is a particularly emotional age - that our feelings are closer to the surface.</p><p>Listen to Turi speak to Jonathan and Omar about:</p><ul><li>How we define ‘ages’</li><li>The difference between the Arab Spring and Black Lives Matter protests</li><li>Whether we need to ‘fix’ an age of anxiety</li><li>The rise of hatred across the West</li><li>How psychoanalysis can heal emotional wounds of trauma</li><li>The importance of mourning</li></ul><blockquote><em>“There’s a considerable rise in anxiety and tension and people hating other people, and there’s far less debate going on…”</em></blockquote><p>Works cited include:</p><ul><li>