In short
Part 2 of Fin vs. History’s “birth of psychology” deep dive, centered on Carl Jung’s break with Freud, Jung’s ideas about archetypes and the collective unconscious, and how early psychology was entangled with Nazi Germany, plus later postwar efforts to understand Nazi perpetrators.
Guests
Horatio Gould (co-host/host figure). No other named guests appear in the transcript.
Guest backgrounds
Horatio Gould is presented as the co-host guiding the historical discussion; no formal credentials or prior work are specified in the transcript.
Key claims
Jung’s psychological distress led him to explore visions rather than suppress them, forming Liber Novus (“Red Book”). Jung framed Hitler as an archetypal “shaman” and linked German collective destiny to a Norse figure (Woden). The episode claims Nazi-linked psychotherapy used Jungian archetypes (including racialized “Aryan/Jewish” ideas). Postwar Nuremberg psychiatry used IQ testing and the Rorschach inkblot test, concluding perpetrators were “normal” in many respects (banality of evil).
Notable examples
Jung resigning from Freud’s institute (1913); Jung’s essays (1936 “Woden” and 1946 “After the Catastrophe”); Hitler as “psychic scarecrow”; Asperger’s clinical work on children; T4 euthanasia clinic; Rorschach test (inkblots) used at Nuremberg; IQ scores “above average.”
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOThe Historical Context of Psychology
2:08 to 2:52
Discussion on Carl Jung's break from Freud and the state of psychology in the 1920s.
Jung's Psychological Distress
2:52 to 4:10
Exploration of Jung's psychological struggles and his methods of coping.
“Because not everything is about poo or sucking your mum's tits.”
Jung's Concepts and Archetypes
4:10 to 7:02
Jung's theories on archetypes and the collective unconscious are discussed.
“Radical acceptance where you're just like, yeah, fuck it.”
Analyzing Hitler and Mussolini
7:02 to 7:35
Jung's psychoanalysis of Hitler and Mussolini and their differing archetypes.
“So Jung's breakdown is kind of recorded as the basis of his book Liber Novus, the red book.”
Jung's Archetype of Hitler
7:35 to 14:05
Discussion on Jung's characterization of Hitler as a shaman and mystic leader.
“Then the same is valid for the woman who accepts her masculinity.”
Jung's Archetype of Woden and Hitler
14:05 to 18:01
Explore Jung's theories on Woden and how they relate to Hitler's influence on the German unconscious.
“I want to say I do not agree with any of this, but you're like, I just want to say before we go into this, I agree with everything that's been said.”
The Unconscious and the Holocaust
18:01 to 23:18
Discussion on how Jung's ideas connect the German unconscious to historical events like the Holocaust.
“And I'm just going to say that I'm here for all of this.”
Jung's Influence on Nazi Ideology
23:18 to 28:00
Analyzing how Jung's psychological theories were appropriated by the Nazis, especially regarding archetypes.
“because that's their unconscious collective action.”
Understanding Post-War Psychotherapy
28:00 to 28:37
Explore the evolving landscape of psychotherapy after World War II.
Jung's Religious Archetypes
28:37 to 29:48
Delve into Jung's perspective on religion and its psychological significance.
“Why is that one God real and those that aren't?”
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Freud, Jung, and Contemporary Neuroscience
29:48 to 31:06
Discuss the transition from psychoanalysis to modern neuroscience.
“Hans Asperger's, which is a bit like being called Harry Autism.”
Hans Asperger's Background
31:06 to 31:38
Learn about Hans Asperger's life and his contributions to child psychology.
“But again, the condition is named after him.”
Asperger's Observations on Children
31:38 to 37:19
Examine Asperger's insights into social behavior and communication in children.
“developmental disorders in children and in the 30s to 40s he carries out these clinical work with children who show an unusual pattern of social behavioural traits.”
Asperger's Observations on Children
37:23 to 38:37
Examine Asperger's insights into social behavior and communication in children.
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Asperger's Nurturing Approach
38:44 to 39:41
Discuss Asperger's belief in nurturing children with developmental challenges.
“Rather than a, I think obviously there's developmental differences as children.”
The Dark History of Asperger
39:41 to 41:48
Investigate the controversial history of Hans Asperger's involvement with the Nazis.
“I just want to be eating KFC on the toilet.”
Ethical Implications of Medical Referrals
41:48 to 42:01
Analyze the moral questions surrounding medical referrals during the Nazi regime.
“It's where they killed disabled children.”
Asperger's Dilemma and Nazi Euthanasia
42:01 to 43:57
A discussion about Dr. Asperger's involvement with the Nazi regime and its implications.
“If you're in any mind, don't get those confused.”
Psychology's Shift Post World War II
43:58 to 46:09
Exploring how World War II changed the field of psychology and its ethical implications.
“World War II is where psychology completely changes.”
The Rorschach Test and Its Origins
46:10 to 48:17
An overview of the Rorschach test and how it was used in the mid-20th century.
“He was nicknamed Clex, which is German for inkblot.”
Understanding the Banality of Evil
48:18 to 50:39
Discussing the psychological assessment of Nazi defendants and the concept of ordinary evil.
“because look, four along, that's a guy with a tall guy with a massive dick.”
The Milgram Experiment Explained
50:40 to 56:00
An in-depth look at the Milgram experiment and its implications on obedience and authority.
Milgram Experiment Insights
56:00 to 57:16
Explore the Milgram experiment's shocking results and implications.
“you have no other choice, you must go on.”
Voltage and Human Limits
57:16 to 59:14
Discuss the limits of human endurance and shocking survival stories.
“Yeah, it's like involuntary muscle cardiac arrest, like instant skin breakdown.”
Psychology and Responsibility
59:14 to 1:02:29
Debate the nature of responsibility in psychological contexts.
“They accidentally discovered stimulation in pleasure centres.”
Rat Experiments and Addiction
1:02:29 to 1:03:07
Link rat stimulation experiments to human behavior and addiction.
“But each way, we'll see you next time on Finn vs.”
Transcript
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1:48Welcome back to Fin vs. History. I'm with Horatio Gould. And this is part two of our deep dive into the history of nutters yes um it's the history of psychology yeah we are i'd delighted to say in 1920s austria germany happy place my happy place when you if you did therapy pick a place you feel most comfortable and retreat there when you feel stressed where do i feel but i'd like to go back to the birth of psychotherapy and i'd like to be carl jung having dinner with sigmund freud and adolf hitler you're unhappy because you didn't pull enough as a child blood stuck between a rock and a hard place uh carl jung is a swiss german the only people slightly more weird than austrians yeah he is uh freud's pupil uh but he's knocking about austria and uh by 1913 their relationship between pupil and master has broken down right jung resigns from freud's institute in in distress uh he's sort of isolated professionally he doesn't want to be affiliated with Freud's ideas.
2:52Why not? Because not everything is about poo or sucking your mum's tits. In Jung's mind. I'm going to break from you eventually. I think I'm going to be like a Jungian. What will it be? I don't know what it could possibly be. I don't think I'm Freud. There's going to be a moment where the stuff you said in this podcast, I'll be like, I don't want to be affiliated with your network. I don't want to be affiliated with anything. It's when I go to the Sophie Haig. It's when I'm tried at the Sophie Haig. Who's going to have me then? Who will take me? Well, it depends. I mean, this is a different world.
3:22That would be a big choice for you to make. Is it my choice? I think what we do is just like a divorced couple trying to work out with a dog where we both go, here, Charlie. Yeah, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie. And I just take shit myself and... Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, like a dog, I suppose. Yeah, stand my ground. From late 1930 onwards, Jung is in episodes of psychological distress, intrusive visions, intense dreams, fears he's developing a psychosis. Okay. now rather than seeks treatment and suppressing the experience he explores them interesting this is the true psychoanalyst right they try to stand outside you i love this i'm going mental this is fucking i'm going mental let's just go outside myself and i see myself going mental so it's sort of like doing an acid trip but instead of taking any drugs you're just going mental yeah it's just being so stressed that you're basically like exploring i guess that is a way of solving it isn't it if you if i'm stressed in my domestic life and i just stand just treat it like like you're at glastonbury on fucking mushrooms watching a really boring watching a really boring play of some kids not getting their shoes on and i'm just explore it because that's a therapy technique isn't it supposedly i don't do it because i'm straight right but i supposedly supposedly you're meant to notice the stress and like i'd acknowledge it but you're meant to like oh this this will pass was it sort of like saying it won't pass unless they get their fucking shoes on and get out of the house we're gonna be late so like i am an alcoholic in the 12-step program this drink will pass my lips and i will feel better i'm watching myself drinking a pint and i know i'm gonna have 12 more and ruin christmas but that's fine is that what they mean i think so you say you haven't done their radical acceptance isn't radical acceptance a thing now Yes.
5:10A radical honesty. Radical acceptance where you're just like, yeah, fuck it. Fuck it. Fuck it. I guess I'm an alcoholic. Fuck it. But when you're in the 12-step program, the whole point is the first step is admitting. So is it like that when you're stressed? I am fucking stressed. I am stressed. Why am I stressed? Because you're all being cunts. It's your fault. You can solve it. The first step is admitting, Finn. Yes, it is. The second step is blaming. The third step is getting angrier. Yeah. The fourth step is going, right, and putting their shoes on. and the fifth step is slamming the door and getting out of the house and leaving them with a sense of fear.
5:46More tips for me for parenting are available at my website. I've got some free PDFs. I mean, so, for a Freudian, you know the free climber who's just climbed that Taiwanese skyscraper? Yes. What's his name? Alex Trevelyan. Alex Salmond. Not Alex Salmond. Trevelyan? The people who are involved in the... Alex Trevelyan was 006 in Goldeneye. Sorry. The Trevelyans were involved in the famine, I thought. It was an unconscious slip, wasn't it? Alex Honnold. Alex Honnold. Alex Honnold. Honnold. Well, yeah, he's the one who did Free Solo and has just free climbed this skyscraper in Taiwan. Yeah. But basically when watching Free Solo, he said that he basically wasn't hugged as a kid in those early stages.
6:26Now he's trying to hug the mountain. Yeah, I guess so. But it is interesting that if you don't give your kid enough affection, they will free climb a rock face later in life. which is he got paid half a mil for that yeah so part of me is like you can maybe raise them be like if you don't touch them it's like sushi chefs trying to resist the urge to cook it yeah leave it leave it put some soy sauce on it and go to bed it might end up being like you know a world-class athlete so uh young uh who is probably my my My preferred, of all these whack job doctors. Yeah, Jung is based. Jordan Peterson loves Jung.
7:07He's always knocking on about Jung. He is. So Jung's breakdown is kind of recorded as the basis of his book Liber Novus, the red book. Quotes include, the more manly you are, the more remote from you is what woman really is. Well, that's not a great quote. That seems... Since the feminine in yourself is alien and contemptuous. You see, I love this guy. He's speaking my language. Right. The exceptions of femininity leads to completion. What kind of completion is he talking about? Is that a way of saying he's coming? Oh, fuck, I'm going to complete. Then the same is valid for the woman who accepts her masculinity.
7:43So was he saying that we should all be gender fluid? I guess so. Gender benders. Gender benders, yeah. What is it, Charlie? Is it gay to go out with a masculine woman? I think so. Is it gay? Is there any level of... Is there any level of camp where it's gayer to go out with a really butch lady than the gay man? Interesting. No, I don't know. The manliest woman ever. How butch does this woman have to be? On a scale from like naught to Claire Balding. What? She's Claire Balding. We're going butch than Claire Balding. She works the train. Impossible. Impossible. She looks like Claire Balding, but she works on the train.
8:18I think she more looks like Vinnie Jones, but is a woman. Christ, I can't imagine that. Short hair. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I see your point, though. Vinnie Jones looks like a powerful lesbian. Is it all physical? Say that to his face, see what happens.
8:35So Jung develops these concepts after World War I during his kind of retreat from... Does he serve in World War I? I think maybe he does. Oh, he's Swiss, isn't he? So of course he doesn't. Fucking Swiss. Oh, he's just there as a fucking referee. Taking a Swiss army knife out and then in, getting the scissors out of a Swiss army knife. Yeah, brilliant. What a fucking coward. Jungian concepts. So whereas Freud, to compare this to Freud, Freud thinks that everyone has some kind of childhood trauma because they didn't suck enough of their mum's tits or they didn't poo on themselves enough or they pooed in toilets too much and they all want to fuck everyone and that's why everyone's messed up.
9:14Jung goes,
9:17or he starts talking about these concepts of archetypes where there is a type of personality that is recognisable to all of us and that we sort of play a role as we try to fit into this type or certain types can affect other types and how we grow out of them. And archetypes have gone throughout history through different societies all over the world. They reappear in many different forms. And he talks about a collective unconscious, which is like a tribe or even a nation, which would have a sort of be plugged into a collective hive mind that it wouldn't necessarily know what it's doing, but it's going somewhere.
9:57And this leads - Stop the boats. Sort of. Yeah, our collective unconscious now is stop the boats. Although it's quite conscious for a lot of people. Screaming out a car window. But this is the most interesting. Propel Fitness Water. With Gatorade electrolytes, zero sugar, and vitamins, Propel hydrates better than water to help you get the most out of your workout and get back to your best self. What propels you? Propel with Gatorade electrolytes. I get so many headaches every month. It could be chronic migraine, 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting four hours or more. Botox, on a botulinum toxin A, prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine.
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11:44The thing Jung does is he meets Hitler and Mussolini in the early 30s and he psychoanalyzes them. And he says that they are both... Do they know they're being psychoanalyzed or is he just chatting to them? They just chatting to them. But he's sneaky, this guy. Yeah. So he says that these two leaders are different archetypes and that's why they're successful leaders. There's the archetype of the strong man. Is that Mussolini? Mussolini. bare chested in the fields eating raw garlic. Hey! Yeah. And this is like going back to when we were monkeys or whatever and we just went to the strongest guy. Alpha male.
12:21He's the alpha. He's a very easy person. He's the strongest. He's the most dangerous man. He'll lead us. He's our leader. Hitler is not that. No. Hitler. He's physically quite weak. Hitler's a shaman. That's what Jung says. A Nazi shaman. Hitler's a Nazi shaman. Hitler is a witch doctor who is cooking up a tea that the Germans are fucking drinking. And they're seeing shit. Yeah. Right? Hitler is a... Hitler, the archetype... Raised as ayahuasca. Yeah, it is taking ayahuasca and then denying the Holocaust. That's what Jung says. Hitler is an archetype. No, it's taking ayahuasca and doing the Holocaust.
13:01Yeah, I guess so. I guess it is that. It's the first thing. So he says that Hitler is a magician, a wizard, the archetype of the shaman, right? Wizard Hitler. That's amazing. So this is someone who is not the strong man and he's also not a virile man. No. You know, he's not someone who ever really had a sexual relationship. Now, as we've seen... Micro-penis. Maybe. We can't know. But they think Hitler is kind of communing with the collective unconscious of Germany, right? Yeah. And that Hitler is sort of... It's basically interpreting...
13:40it's a it's a drum circle but it's hit
13:56the germans are all sat cross-legged drinking tea and hitler anyway so uh he says that hitler is the archetype of the mystic or the priest who captures the imagination of the collective unconscious and and tells them about the stars and where they're going right it's not the spiritual leader sort of and basically what he says now this this gets pretty fucking crazy right and i'll just say that now that i'm here for all of this normally it's the opportunity for people to distance themselves that's what most people do i just like to close them we're talking about it but this is with big context.
14:33I want to say I do not agree with any of this, but you're like, I just want to say before we go into this, I agree with everything that's been said. I'd like to move myself closer to events. I'd like to move myself closer to the opinions I'm about to describe. I would not like any distance at all between them. That's the caveat. That's the caveat there. Just know that when I'm saying this, I also want it to be true. Just the caveat. There's no caveats. Yeah. Never has anything been caveated less. 100%. 100%. would you say hit your hero huh would you say hit your hero hold that percent yeah right jung says so he writes two essays he writes an essay in 1936 called woden yeah and he writes one in 1946 called after the catastrophe in 1936 essay he says and i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna info dump on you here right there's a lot he says that he predicts and a great apocalypse coming because the german people have been possessed by the Norse god Woden, or rather the Woden.
15:34Woden. Woden. Woden. And he is the god of frenzy and the god of apocalypse and the god of chaos. Right. He's the god of fucking shit up. Yes. Now, he says that the archetype of this god, right, went from one person to another. And the German unconscious, the great collective unconscious, they don't really know where they're going or what they're doing or why they're doing it, but they are all acting as one like a field of cows. Yeah, a certain type of cow. Yeah, my type of cow. I think cows normally... Blood. Blood.
16:15Blood.
16:28anyway there's a hit the cows I don't know why I don't know why I'm laughing so hard at that it's the stupidest thing I've ever seen oh Christ right right right he says the german the german peoples are the unconscious is going in this direction of chaos right and he says that the archetype as he writes it there is hitler right he's the manic priest the shaman manic pixie dream girl he's a manic pixie dream nazi he's leading the collective unconscious that's one of the archetypes yes i believe that hitler is the manic pixie dream nazi archetype yeah the archetype is the shaman or the leader or the fucking blue-haired anime loving girl and Hitler is that.
17:15Hitler's a blue-haired manic pixie dream girl with space boots who's doing slam poetry about sci-fi at the Edinburgh Fringe. Anyway, he calls Hitler a psychic scarecrow. So when is he writing this? What year? I don't know which essay. This is 1936, this is, right? Okay, so this is... Pre-Ancheles. Right. So he's really... Because Ancheles wasn't even, as we've said, Ancheles is fine. So he's, you know, he is prophetic. That's before Hitler's been very naughty. Very, very naughty. No, they don't yet know that Nazi is the German word for naughty. They don't know this yet. It's 1936. So Jung says that Hitler is this mystical shaman and he is the avatar for Woden, who is leading the German unconscious to an apocalypse, right?
18:02Now, this is where he gets fucked. And I'm just going to say that I'm here for all of this. He says that before this, the German people are always aware of Woden, unconsciously. But before this, the avatar for Woden was Nietzsche, right? Yes, of course. Now, Nietzsche starts to go insane in January 1889. When he sees a horse die. He sees a horse die and he goes insane. And then his sister sells tickets. Yeah, yeah. So, Jung says that when Nietzsche goes all like that... Literally, no one's gone more cartoon insane than Nietzsche. He's just like this one day and then he went... Yeah, nothing means anything.
18:36Yeah. Yeah, so when Nietzsche goes insane, January 1889, right? we're looking at photos of him now he's clapped so Jung says that when Nietzsche goes mad that's the spirit of Woden leaving his body right he then says that on this particular day the same day he was diagnosed as going ill is a day when Hitler would have been 24 weeks in the womb and so his synapses would have been forming and the spirit of Woden goes into Hitler in the womb and the spirit transfers from Nietzsche to Hitler wow and that is the collective unconscious of the german nation going towards ragnarok which he then says in his 1946 essay was stalingrad the biggest battle ever yeah he says so he's 1946 essay is going that thing i wrote 10 years ago well i guess i was completely right yeah i guess that is a ragnarok yeah but then so just the spirit of woden go anywhere when hitler kills himself well could it still could it be in the room with us right now the spirit of woden well i was born as germany was reunified charlie type in german people who were born in 1945 oh what april 1945 when does hitler die minute silence please so i know you get emotional uh uh famous germans germans we've got to find we've got to find wherever the spirit of woden is now this is like a national treasure film yeah we got to michael kogel who's that german musician Spanish pop rock band Los Bravos Espirito Roden Yeah I guess it's hard because there's no birth records for the period where Berlin was fucking routed Can we see a picture of Michael Kogel please?
20:19Yeah See what he decided to do with the spirit of Roden Yeah What's he done? Has he formed a Spanish band? Because I don't think that's quite what Carl Jung meant Well he's got that hat I mean Yeah But also fuck I haven't even said the best bit Charlie there's a painting that is done about Woden in 1889 and you look at who it looks like. This is as Hitler is in the womb. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, look. It looks like Hitler. That's Woden drawing in 1889 as Nietzsche dies and Hitler's in the womb. But is Woden meant to be evil or is he just chaos? Terry Woden. It's not Terry Woden. What's Woden's show called?
20:57It's called Wogan. Oh, is there not like a radio version of it? Not Terry Woden. Terry Woden. Yeah, he did the BBC two shows. What would Nazi Terry Wogan sound like? I don't even know what Nazi Terry Wogan would sound like. We need to exterminate the Jews. There's no way of a six million. You're listening to Pickle the Pops. It would change Eurovision. It would change Eurovision. Always voting for Germany. It's just leaping around. And Israel get zero points. so Jung is the only person who ever psychoanalyzes Hitler and these essays I would encourage you there's an Irish guy on YouTube who writes video essays about psychology and I found his one about Jung and Hitler is amazing but where's the Norse god Woden coming isn't it a pseudo history to link the Germanic mythology to the Norse mythology because they're just scrambling for some white mythology the thing about Jung is he believes in the collective unconscious this which is where you leave the door open for religion which is why which is why peterson likes him no i i get that but i don't know why it doesn't feel like the german peoples were that influenced by north north mythology they don't know that jung is trying to articulate what's happened could there be a ghanaean woden yes even though it's nothing really yeah so you can collectively okay oh do you mean woden because woden's an archetype of a shaman No, no, no, no, no, no.
22:23Hitler's a shaman. Woden is the name of, in this period, the German unconscious. They're being influenced by the god Woden. That's who is the god of chaos. It's a fruity way of saying... I know it's a way of framing it, but it's interesting. It's bollocks. Well, obviously it's bollocks, but... No, but it's a way of framing things and I can understand archetypes. The great thing about psychology... But I don't have some way of bringing Norse mythology into the German unconscious, because I don't think that would be the prevalent mythology. What he's saying is, well, no, because the Nazis were all about Norse mythology.
22:56I guess so, but that was a pseudo science history. Yeah, but what he's saying - They're forcing that in. Also, Woden is a Germanic version of a Norse god. Okay, so, okay, fine. But what he's trying to say is the Germans were always going to do this because it's like he's being stereotypical and essentialist. He's saying - Destiny, it was destiny. Germans' destiny was the Holocaust because that's their unconscious collective action. That's their field of cows going, right? That's the German story. And that Hitler was like the final prophet, the final statement. It was meant to be. All right. It was just meant to be.
23:35People staring at the camps going, well, this was just inevitable. It was meant to be. It was meant to be. It was meant to be. The Nazis, what's so fascinating is that all this stuff, the birth of this whole science is in Germany at the same time as the Nazis are in power. So that's why a lot of the stuff later on has been quite contested because obviously a lot of the doctors are tainted by association. Now Jung's story with the Nazis is that he gets, he accepts a presidency position which is connected to the International General Medical Society for psychotherapy after the Nazis come to power.
24:11And that's ran by Goebbels. And the Nazis take bits of Jung's psycho analysis and they use his ideas about archetypes they use that with like the Jewish archetype, the Aryan archetype and then Jung's like and they're like no no we get it we should go through some of Jung's archetypes because that's his big thing so Jungian archetypes these can be as simple as like the overbearing mother, this can be you know specky guy I don't know if specky guy is it specky guy with like a sort of slightly below average cock is like an archetype that's an archetype British archetype there's a British archetype I don't know if that can we get can you just google you're in archetypes Charlie as part of the collective unconscious I think it's just a sense of like you meet you you know I would meet or one I would meet you say and I go okay the royal you the royal you and I go you are an archetypal specky British man hypothetically I don't know who this person I can't even imagine what this person is you wouldn't recognise it because you're the archetype who's the archetype you maybe oh right right okay but we can't know we can't know so the the persona is the public face or mask worn to manage social interactions the shadow is the hidden repressed instinctive aspect so this is kind of ego in it it's kind of the same language right the animus is the internalized opposite gendered aspect of the self which and then the self is the ultimate goal of unifying all these different things yeah right but it's done in a more dramatic German way yeah than Freud which is a little bit kind of science and weird but the shadow self so other prominent archetypes the hero a figure representing courage ambition the wise old man representing wisdom the mother symbolizes nurturing the innocent the ruler the everyman so it's in like like these are all like comic archetypes as well i guess can we find examples of these archetypes please charlie just clicked on the hero and he took us to a pub called the hero made of ale so that pub is the archetypal pub so so example the sage where the hero is harry potter and the sage is yoda yeah yeah so this so these are right these are literary archetypes well no but these are just stories and everything's a story isn't it it's how humans make sense of the world so sage gandalf the hero would be hercules harry potter or hitler the sage would be yoda gandalf or hitler the innocent forrest gump dorothy from wizard of oz harvey price Harvey yeah exactly you're getting it now do you know what I mean everyone is an archetype now can you do real life people Mother Teresa Mother Teresa is the mother yeah the trickster the jester well no here you go look this one's good so the innocent the dreamer would be like an unwavering romantic and idealist like Forrest Gump right it just sounds like everyone's got Down syndrome they're the innocent yeah the innocent archetype yeah right which is funny because Charlie doesn't have Charlie doesn't have Down syndrome, but archetypally, he's the same as someone who does.
27:10So it's like when I look at you and I interact with you, I know you don't have Down syndrome, but my unconscious self treats you as if you do. Thank you. Or rather, it treats you as no different than someone who does. Because that's how my psychology interacts with yours. I recognize the Jungian archetype. I mean, he's losing to five-year-olds at chess in two moves. Fool's mate. Fool's mate. Yeah. Then there's the rebel or the maverick, someone like Colin Kaepernick. Right, yeah. Or like activists. The lover would be kind of, I guess, I don't know. Charlie XCX and Timothy Shalom. No, Bonnie Blue, I don't know.
27:51Kylie Jenner and Charlie XCX. The jester, that's like comics. The sage would be philosophers. The magician, Hitler. Imagine that kid's birthday. you've got this great guy my next trick i will make six million right so let's get back to the story so uh after world war ii uh and you know young writes this uh essay basically being like i was right gives me no pleasure to say um and psychotherapy starts trying to understand what the fuck what the fuck just happened what i like about jung is i don't if you don't take it literally literally it is sort of just like a dramatic framing of things it's just a way of viewing yeah it's very epic way of yeah so i think it's better than it's all poo and sex which is because i actually think because it lacks the science it's not claiming to be officially true it's more just a way of understanding things but also analyzing but jung is also leaving the door open for basically for religion and saying that people need religion and he's saying that this is how you could explain the psychological desire for a religious framework.
29:01But I mean, the links, there's so many different, one of the big arguments against religion is how many different religions there are and why, if you're saying you believe in one God, you're saying you don't believe in all the other. Why is that one God real and those that aren't? And if you're born in a Muslim country, that's cultural. But then he's saying that. He's saying his way of actually, he actually manages to justify that because nearly all religions have similar archetypes and stories. Exactly. And it's actually humanity responding to the same questions. You know what's it called? There's a book called Save the Cat, which is like, if you want to write a film script, you read this book, and it tells you how you do it.
29:36Jung has done Save the Cat, but for religion. Yes. If you want to make religion. If you want to make religion, you have this guy. Old fucker. You have an old fucker. You have his son. Trickster. You have a prostitute. Yeah. Whatever. What is it, Charlie? Do you think there's any room for, in terms of these iconic Freud, Jung, and everyone, do you think now with science will there be another one who does science who stands in alone as like a kind of like major brain theory person well i suppose nowadays you've got people like huberman but it's become so much more medicalized in that like people who are talking about neuroscience well now the the movement now is that the guts the second brain we've moved so far that it's like it's gone backwards it's yeah it has gone backwards because it feels like we're getting somewhere we're just back to like the humors now it's like apparently now a lot of your feelings and emotions is because you don't haven't drank kefir and you're like you haven't brilliant had enough ferment yeah well fuck fuck better help let's get yakult yeah well kind of yeah basically the best therapy is fucking activity is yogurt we're now in the yogurt therapy stage you see therapists like no i just had a fucking yogurt i feel fine now let's get to more psychotherapists that were tainted by the nazi young was never a card carrying Nazi, but he had to fight his reputation his whole life.
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30:54I would recommend reading the essays. They're amazing. Hans Asperger's, which is a bit like being called Harry Autism. Oh, yeah. Derek Retard. Daniel AIDS. Yeah, yeah. But again, the condition is named after him. So if he was called that now, then that's quite funny. But again, this is pre-Asperger's. Trevor Downs. Called Trevor Downs. Does he have any children who are alive today uh someone find that out please does hans asperger's have any children that are alive today so uh he starts a study for um he's born in vienna again vienna is just fucking ground zero for autism isn't it yeah austria um yeah he's born in 1906 and he specializes in developmental disorders in children and in the 30s to 40s he carries out these clinical work with children who show an unusual pattern of social behavioural traits.
31:48These include being socially isolated, poor at non-verbal communication, subscribing to a racist podcast Patreon. What's being poor at non-verbal communication? It's not understanding cues. It's Greg Wallace. Right, yeah. Would you like a tea, Greg? Why is your cock out? And maybe not understanding a mime as an art form. It's quite funny to imagine an autistic person looking at a mime. but then i that's why i think i'm i can be autistic when i watch a mime i'm like the fuck is this fuck off get a job does that mean i'm autistic or i just hate can i just hate mime could be don't know but i get what they're trying to do it's not i don't get it i just think it's shit you can't read this you don't have the emotional intelligence to read no i understand it's a rope it's not like when i when i push the button and go down the elevator i'm like What, where'd they gone?
32:39Where'd they gone? Fuck. I'm not that. I'm not a two-year-old who got the first time walking down the stairs behind the kitchen counter. Fuck. What? There are stairs there? Sorry, he's got autism. Do you reckon Fritzl ever did that? What, just? Just pretended to go down the stairs. He had actually got a basement down there. Oh, right. There we go. Anyway, maybe Fritzl's the spirit of Woden. Yes. When was Fritzl born? Quick. I've cracked another theory wide open wow when is Fritzl born the spirit of Woden lives Nietzsche 35 you'd arguably have to say that's when Hitler starts to lose the spirit of Woden but also because what they what the theory what Jung's theory is is that Jung's theory is that Hitler is in the womb and as Nietzsche goes crazy Hitler's synapses form so if there was a moment when Hitler blows his brains out and then is there a moment when Fritzel's 10 where he's like, yeah.
33:44It finds a new avatar, finds a new host. Exactly. Fritzel could have been a very well-behaved 10-year-old. Exactly. And then Hitler blew his brains out. And suddenly he's possessed by the spirit of Woden. He does look like he's possessed by the spirit of Woden. He looks crazy. He looks crazy. He looks like a guy who did what he did. Yeah. He kind of looks like you, it's not impossible that you will end up looking a bit like that. He looks more like a ratio than me. I think he looks like a blend. I think you face up us together. Yeah, and then put the old filter on and you get a fritzel, which would make sense.
34:16Anyway, right. So Hans Asperger. No, that's us too. Sorry, that photo. I'm the one behind. This is when I've turned you in. Right, you've turned me in. And I've got a sort of smug, right look going, I knew this would happen. He's literally wearing your suit pretty much. He is wearing my suit. I don't look like him, wearing the same suit. Same suit, exact tie, exact shirt. We're looking at a photo of Fritzl wearing what I'm wearing now. Yeah. Yeah. Do you think that is a smug? Do you think he is smug there? Yeah, I did it. Yeah, I did it. And I do it again. And I added value to that house because I built a fucking basement.
34:53Yeah. So when he dies, we need to worry about where the spirit of Woden goes next. Well, all I'll say, Woden, is that I'm right here. And I'm ready to lead the German people in their unconscious. What archetype was Fritzl then? The trickster? the lover the diy god the handyman he's the handyman he's a he's a mix of the handyman that's possessed by yeah the shaman of hitler the innocent yeah right so asperger's harry asperger's john down syndrome whatever you want to call him he is studying kids um uh and four particular children whose behavior follows this recognizable pattern difficulty forming natural social relationship with peers trigger warnings for our listeners.
35:36This will seem very relevant. Limited understanding of social cues. Conversational style that could be one-sided. Oh, no. Don't run into the road. What? Little intuitive use of gestures or facial expressions. Intense, narrow interests often pursued obsessively and an ability to talk at length about favourite topics. I mean, this is how this podcast, this is the backbone of this podcast. We just monetise our asperges. We've locked as people who are so hyperfixated on certain interests. Starting or growing your own business can be intimidating and lonely at times. Your to-do list may feel endless with new tasks and lists can easily begin to overrun your life.
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38:43So Asperger believes that many of these children could grow into functional adults through nurture. so uh you're getting you're getting a nurturing sense here which i before i think it's all about you sort of there's almost a sort of with freud and jung there's like there's no mobility in the archetype but then i think we've gone back to a sort of uh defeatist like destined view of autism which i don't agree with a lot of the time yeah where it's like i've got this is how i am adhd i'm always going to be 15 minutes late that's because that's because it's now become a personality trait. Yeah. Rather than a, I think obviously there's developmental differences as children.
39:23It doesn't mean you can't overcome them. No. And when people like, Oh, I'm masking. Yeah. So is everyone. Yeah. That's the whole, the whole gig of being, being alive in society is you don't just poo your pants. Charlie. Yeah. The masking thing does a kind of annoying. It's like, yeah, we're all masking. Why are you exempt from masks? I don't want to be here. I'm exhausted from masking all day. Yeah. I'm going to work. I don't want to work. I I've got to get out. I just want to be eating KFC on the toilet. What do you mean? We're all masking. I completely agree. You know, anyway. What is it? If you could have your time again, would you...
39:58Would you... 35? 35?
40:05If you could have your time again, would you... Would you go back to... Like, if you could have your brain in like a five-year-old body, I think I'd be doing so well now. question though Charlie I would be doing so well now like if I if I was five and I had my brain I'd make sure that everyone liked me immediately because I'd have all my skills yeah and um like you would go I still think you'd be losing it this is the problem is that you you'd go back to when you're five say this is brilliant I'm gonna be top of my class I'm gonna be able to like like you know be a CEO by the age of 20 and you'd be bottom of your class still you'd lose in three moves people you'd be a lot of people having meetings saying is he developmentally challenged yeah right so harry aspergers harry or whatever he's called uh he calls the kids little professors brian diarrhea brian you know some people have names and you're like well you can only do one thing where did diarrhea come from what's that is that named the first guy on a loose ship because you can't just like i mean i guess diarrhea makes sense as a like sonically what what's the what's the indian word for diarrhea because that's surely where it comes from.
41:14You know how Eskimos have 100 words for snow? In Hindi, there's 100 words for snow. Oh, it's a Greek thing. Of course, yeah. Of course it's Greek. You can't call Asperger's Syndrome that anymore. It's now... Because of the Nazi stuff? Yeah, because, and I looked into it, he's pretty guilty. Right. So the Nazis had a thing called... they had a camp called T4 or T44. No, T44 is the Paralympic thing. Anyway, they had a camp called T4. Catch up on E4. T4 on the beach. Not T4 on the beach. I think it's the opposite of that. It's where they killed disabled children. So it's not T4 on the beach. It's T4 off the beach.
42:01T4, it's landlocked T4. If you're in any mind, don't get those confused. It's not a music festival on the beach. it's a concentration camp where they send it's very important you make the right decision children very there's a fork in the road in your life all right one go to t4 on the beach they could be more different yeah one is makita oliver slamming pina coladas while the killers are playing and the other one is harvey price being gassed yeah the killers will mean something very different very important you choose the right fork so the all the debate is whether asperger's was aware how aware he was that he was sending children to their death right at a nazi euthanasia clinic because obviously the Nazi regime, they're taking Darwin's ideas, they're taking Jung's ideas about archetypes.
42:47Dr. Asperger, he ingratiate himself by referring children to this. To a euthanasia clinic. I mean, what a referral. Yeah. I mean, if you're a doctor, just to refer, you know when you get a referral. Yeah, I'm picking up a prescription. It's for a bullet in the head. Right, yeah. I'm going to refer you to my friends at this practice. Yeah. Asperger's is not a member of the Nazi party and he also does to be fair i think he also saved some children yeah but what let's do a numbers game yeah exactly the point is exactly he's still he's not a great pediatrician right pedo podiatrist right he's not no no but he's you know it's um but he has it's the number one thing you're trying to do is save kids right and he's sort of doing the opposite he's going these kids with autism could leave a full life where should i send them the nazi death camp the bin the drug tractor bin empty trash i've nurtured these kids into the bin he saved the smart ones okay so if you were particularly um you know i i guess that's the autism dilemma though well it is i maybe were the ones that were really into trains they were like i reckon we could put you to use currently we've got quite a sophisticated network so we then get to the nuremberg trials where psychology is this nascent sort of 30 year old thing but it's very important because everyone World War II is where psychology completely changes.
44:06Yeah. Because the naughty science is over. You've now got to stop bad at yourself. Sadly, this is the bookend of the funnest period in science. Yeah, it's the hangover. Unfortunately, they now have to unpick all the mad shit they did. And, you know, there's a lot of respectable, esteemed racists taking their coats off going, well, I guess I'm not a scientist anymore. If this is what science is, I want no part of it. i want to measure heads right i don't want to put mentos in coke bottles i think that's gay i want to measure irish people's noses and then make stereotypical judgments about their intelligence then i guess i'm not a scientist fine all right you you change not me it's like it's like we trigonometry say the left i didn't say i'm not come right wing the left changed science changed alright I'm still racist but science isn't anyway so the the Nuremberg trial this is obviously in the film Nuremberg I haven't watched it yet but I've seen clips of it so they get an American psychiatrist to assess the prisoners or Russell Crowe Russell Crowe and they're trying to work out what's just happened why have how have Germany done this Carl Jung says they've been possessed by a Norse god and that Hitler's a shaman.
45:28That seems slightly outlandish. And they're trying to understand the Nazi mind. And what they do, they do IQ tests. Most defendants score above average. They're sort of highly intelligent. This is where the banality of evil comes in as well. Well, this is what I mean. Well, yeah, the banality of evil is that these guys are smart, but they tell fucking boring stories. Yeah, so banal. Like you did so much mad shit and you can't spin a yarn. come on yeah like obviously i don't care about that part yeah get to the good bit and then no then there's more paper work and so um but then they start using uh the raw shash raw shash raw shash raw shash raw shash how do i say that raw shash raw shash raw shash um it's like the raw shak sounds like sean connery the raw shak a box of raw shash or quality history rorschach it's rorschach rorschach the test right the raw the raw the raw rorschach pasta rorschach it's the test if you if you know if you get the best ones that's quite rude if you get if you get eat the strawberry one given the rorschach if you eat the pink one you're gay winners go home and fuck the prom queen anyway uh so herman rorschach rorschach is Swiss.
46:49Died young. Again, he's Swiss. He died young. He was nicknamed Clex, which is German for inkblot. That's mad. So he enjoys this game where you drip ink on a paper then fold it. And his central question during his time as a doctor is how does the mind impose structure on ambiguity? Right. So he dies at age 37 at appendicitis, but he leaves this legacy of this test, which in the mid-20th century was being used to diagnose homosexuality, criminality, psychopathy and political extremism. Who's fucking around with inks but at a time where this stuff's really burgeoning? Yeah, well the 50s, and this is where I would again like to recommend the novel.
47:29Sort of right place, right time. You just flick it in. Yeah. The novel The Dice Man, which is the funniest book of all time. Right. It's a satire of the nascent psychological scene in 60s America. Charlie's already laughing. i'll get i keep meaning to give you a copy because you will love it it's a guy who essentially uh he's a psychologist then he rejects all his training and he goes you know what i'm going to live by the dice i'm just going to write down six different options roll dice whatever option it is i'm going to do that is it real uh no but it spawned a cult of people who tried doing it oh great i'd love to read that it's a brilliant very very funny book anyway rorschach um uh he has 10 official ink block cards and uh we're looking at them now on screen they're just kind of, you know, well, whatever.
48:15It's just 10 pictures of dicks. I don't know what a big deal is. It is sexual though, because look, four along, that's a guy with a tall guy with a massive dick. Lady at the beach? No, I think that's... See, number four. Number three. You see like a massive guy with a cute heart. That's a guy, that's someone shoving something off his arse, I think. And then you've got a bikini. Yeah. Yeah. On the next one. So there's two women kissing on that one, I think. Where? That one. So they're facing each other and their tits are towards each other. I was quite surprised how sexual I read it. They're kind of just all fannies, aren't they?
48:41That's a fanny. Fanny, fanny, fanny, fanny, fanny. Not two guys, one cup. That's not the raw. Even though they do sort of look like two guys, one cup. They're showing Herman Goering. What do you think of this? Just two guys, one cup. He's like, fucking hell. I was like, yeah, it's bad, isn't it? Well, what about, look what you did. You were way worse than this. You were appalling what you did. Is that the worst thing you've ever seen? Have you ever seen anything worse than that? I've actually never watched it. I couldn't bring myself to. I think the guy, the Chechen getting his head cut off, I think about more than two girls, one cup.
49:11The raspberry kiss, the raspberry sock. Yeah, that's bad. That's the worst thing I ever think. So I should stress to our thick listeners that they do not show two girls, one cup to Herman Goering at Nuremberg to get a sense of... It's 10 ink blocks one Nazi, is actually... 10 ink blocks one cup. So, but the aim is to try and see what the subconscious mind does with an ambiguous image to try and get a sense of who the person is. but the terrifying conclusion from nuremberg the psychiatrists make is that they're all fucking normals they have they have intense narcissism but their lack of conscience is not something that might be any different from anyone else yeah right they then really think that the raw slash thing was kind of irrelevant and i don't think that's a thing anymore in psychology i think it's all bollocks but um it's also prevalent in tv and films because it's quite a fun but they needed a translator to translate from german to english so all the weight you know that's just a translator going oh yeah no he sees a dick again he sees a big he's a big throbbing cock yeah um so the main takeaway from nuremberg is that psychology could not so there was not like a genocide part of the brain that they all had genocide button there's not phrenology started to crumble with the genocide yeah um because it reinforces the idea that mass atrocity can be carried out by psychologically ordinary people yeah there's also because i did a lot of this at uni there's a brilliant book called ordinary men genocide yes i did study genocide at uni there's a brilliant book called ordinary men by christopher browning which kind of builds on this and it's all about the nazis on the eastern front who weren't uh in concentration camps they were doing the free jazz lines out script and shooty shooty the miles davis holocaust um they were they but they were actually killing people they couldn't defend themselves they couldn't psychologically diss themselves by pushing a button in a room and then someone dying they were killing them yeah but they would they had the same psychological processes the same ordinary people did awful more playing it like call of duty basically yeah with that level of detection so now we get into the milgram experiment which uh now this happens just as our old friend friend of the pods yeah adolf eichmann yeah uh is on trial uh so that was our first four-parter i think he was our first four-parter um adolf eichmann feel free to if you've not heard that series dig into that first so the Adolf Eichmann trial you can catch up on that series but he was a German man who loved trains really no further information needed and if that's illegal then yeah I guess he's guilty but so August 1961 is he called what's he called is he called Stanley Milgram yeah he's called Stanley Milgram and he's an American I want to say should we place this should we place 61 because we haven't placed anything well okay so 61 I guess that's after Elvis Presley's first album yeah yeah and before the beatles first album it's not not before the beatles where's the first 60 59 58 really anyway between beatles and presley that's what's going on milgram has devised a study to try and explain the psychology of genocide so he wants to answer the question which is what the jury in israel are trying to do is the jury the jury of israel and the jury of israel the jury the jury of jury in israel christ that's a bit of gone to the jury and found a jury this country's gone to the jury uh they've gone to the jury and they've asked to them to find a jury of jury to do their duty in finding out whether eichmann could uh duty their duty is Jury.
52:48The duty. The jury's duty. Are you on jury duty? Now, what's that? You could say that Eichmann was on jury duty. Yeah. And now they're on jury duty. Yeah. That's going to be a lot of fun for the subtitler who's dyslexic. When that bit's clipped. Christ. The first bit he's understood. Poor guy. I don't envy that clip, Niall. Best of luck. best of luck with that anyway that's his worst nightmare so he wants to answer the question of whether Eichmann could legitimately claim that he is just following orders so Milgram suspects that the obedience exhibited by Nazis reflects a distinct essentialist German character which is what Jung would say it's what I said it was inevitable they were always going to do this is the spirit of Woden.
53:46It's Woden nonsense. They were social Woden warriors. Hitler was a manic pixie dream girl and the country was of SJWs. Anyway, so he gets an American participant. That was a good sigh. Did you hear that?
54:05Gary Neville commentary. He gets American participants as a control group before using Germans, right? So he wants to just see if this experiment's going to work before he does it on actual Nazis, which he thinks are just Germans. You can't call everyone Nazis though, Finn. Sorry? You can't call everyone Nazis. No, but this is the... Oh, no. Sorry, this is actual Nazis. So the experiment is as follows. There's three roles, an experimenter, a teacher and a learner. Now the teacher is told that the study is about how punishment affects memory, but that's a lie. They're told that they'll be paid regardless of what they do and that the learner is strapped into an electric chair.
54:41Darren Brown did an episode with this. And the teacher is given a sample shock to make it feel real. And then he's told, they're in separate rooms, and the teacher is told to basically put, every time that the learner gets an answer wrong, the teacher is told to push a button, which delivers an electric shock. And the electric shock will increase in voltage. What they don't realize is that it's not actually hooked up. It's just the voices of an actor going, Ah, ah, ah, oh, fuck, ah. and as you increase the voltage, he comes harder and harder. So the buttons had labels like slight shock and like danger, severe shock.
55:18And the screams are getting more and more. Yeah. Like, please stop screaming. Stop. And then eventually they go silent. And then it implies that you basically killed them by shocking yourself. Yeah, it implies that you're killing someone and it's about, will you obey an authority figure like regardless of morality? Basically like how much, if you wear a white lab coat people will listen to you basically yeah because it legitimizes you it's the and when they did it in less legitimate settings it went down by like 20 percent so it's the authority or legitimacy of the room and the setting that made it more like that so if the teacher wanted to stop which is not the the outfits if the teacher wanted to stop the experimenter used a set of escalating verbal commands to pressure them like things like you you have no other choice, you must go on.
56:05And the experiment would only end when the teacher refused all of these commands or the maximum shock had been delivered multiple times. Right. I love it that they do this test and you just friend again immediately. Yeah, just bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. So the results show that - I'd be quite interested to do this test with different regional accents in the UK to see how a lot - Oh, type of scream. like no it's more the the the doctor who's telling you to keep going on the northern irish you'll do everything you'll do everything values that button no yeah you're doing that but welsh i feel maybe you'd be like push the button no fuck i don't think it was legitimized enough yeah give it some well then yeah cockney you're not trusting them you think they're wheeler dealers yeah yeah sling it up him african i'm doing it hey push that button now uh what about if it was a kid huh a kid ordering it we're probably not right i'm probably like fuck off every participant went up to 300 volts 65 went up to the full 450 volts can you just give us some context charlie as to what what is 450 volts like how big no i mean google it google it obviously google it
57:32industrial equipment like large capacitor banks and i wouldn't know about voltage so i don't know if that would mean much to me what was your um your light bulb how many volts was that what do you mean what light bulb
57:48one light bulb in my house Charlie has one light bulb in my three bed house what light bulb do you what's your one light bulb do you unscrew it and then move it from room to room as you move through the house fucking idiot the one that you got the one that you got shocked with oh it was an LED driver when I was replacing the bathroom yeah yeah I don't know what that was anyways what is virus visual arts in terms of pain just sort of damn
58:20It was hurt a lot apparently. Yeah, it's like involuntary muscle cardiac arrest, like instant skin breakdown. Freezing effect. So your skin breakdown, you freeze. It's instant death, right? Yeah, so the results meant that when they were closer together, the propensity dropped from the phylogic to push the button. And even those who refused to continue didn't demand the experiment to stop completely or check on the learner. Right, interesting. The highest recorded voltage a person has ever survived is 230 ,000 volts. Oh, it's fine then. 17-year-old Brian Latassa injured 1967 after touching a high-voltage tower.
58:56Well, let's have a look at him, though. Yeah. Probably looks like Nietzsche. Because psychology then is like, okay, how do we blame someone for what happened? How much can we? And how much is it latent in humans to do this sort of thing? Which is interesting with like, as you were talking about, like the labels and how the fact the label almost gives you a gal jail free we're living in that age for sure i mean that there are no responsibility to the label it's like the responsibility is on you i'm autistic i know i'm not wearing any trousers in public but i'm autistic and it's like well am i allowed to tell you to put some trousers on or is that a hate crime but is that is it weird the modern adhd autism revolution is basically fallen out from nuremberg almost yeah so it's like it wasn't nazis fault for holocaust it wasn't your fault that you're an hour late because adhd yeah that's like should be this other way around yeah like the nazis did the holocaust yeah and you're an hour late yeah i don't care i don't care why you did it you're just following orders i was just ignoring
1:00:06yeah just ignoring orders your honor um now eight years uh eight years after nuremberg The psychologists Olds and Milner implanted electrodes into rats' brains. Maybe it's related to Charlie. That sounds like something. They accidentally discovered stimulation in pleasure centres. See, look, me talking about having little buttons in the brain, you laughed at me, but it seems like more and more we're finding out that there are little buttons you can push. Pleasure centre. Pleasure centres, pedo centres, genocide centres. Bish, bash, bosh. Look, I've always said I believe in phrenology. Yeah, good.
1:00:44Brain buttons. They allowed the rat to stimulate their own pleasure centers by pressing a lever that was connected to the electrodes in their heads. The rats would then, one of them basically gave them sexual pleasure. Yeah. And the rats would then press the lever 2 ,000 times per hour for 24 hours, ignoring food, water, sexual partners, mates. They did this to the point of exhaustion and death. Yeah. So there was a rat who, Fred again, came themselves to death. If we hadn't given Charlie a job, this would be... Yeah, you do. Yeah. I mean, that would be a nice way to go. Yeah, maybe. Starving, because you're...
1:01:21Wanking as well. I think most people, if you had that option of constantly doing it, you probably would. It's basically the same experiment nowadays. Rather than giving Rat an electrode, it's giving you a quick shot launch masturbator. Doesn't leave. Charlie, stop it. Smoke's coming out. Charlie, stop. Charlie starves to death. Starves to death. with a fucking air fryer all around on his dick. And this experiment identifies the reward circuit, which is dopamine and serotonin release and all that stuff. Well, ADHD is about, fundamentally it's about having your dopamine receptors all fucked up. Yeah.
1:01:59Right, so you can't release it naturally, so you have to find it. The reason why you stim... Because as a child, you quickshot launch too much. That's what Freud would say. Because you got shouted at on the toilet once? You're on the toilet and you didn't do a poo quick enough. Yeah. And then you quick shot launch masturbated and now you've got ADHD and you can't concentrate. Yeah. Look, we've gone from physiognomy and from phlegm to a rat coming to death. So not that far, really. Really not that far. We've barely taken a step forward and we've mainly gone sideways. Yeah, sort of boomeranged. Yeah.
1:02:29We were getting somewhere. We've gone sideways. But psychology, listen, for all of you listening, watching I reckon you'd commit the holocaust as well if you were told to thank you I also reckon you'd press a button to come until you died see you next week you rats you're Nazi rats on the Patreon tomorrow we will be dealing with the Stanford prison experiment very interesting very fun stuff and you also get early access to next week's episodes. But each way, we'll see you next time on Finn vs. History for more historical films. Bye. Bye.
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