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CTA Podcast
Critical Therapy Antidote was established in 2020 as a response to the rapid, uncontested and systemic encroachment of Critical Social Justice (CSJ) on the psychotherapy field. The purpose of its establishment was to provide a platform where those concerned about this ideological takeover can challenge these ideas in articles, share resources and find a network of likeminded professionals and laypersons. In March 2023, the CTA Podcast was launched by clinical psychologist, Jaco van Zyl, and marriage and family therapist, Christine Sefein-Wolk. The CTA Podcast aims to critically analyse the tenets of CSJ, to provide diverse alternatives to this ideology, and to reestablish the healing ethos of psychotherapy. Welcome to the CTA Podcast. We hope it will both stimulate and challenge you.
CTA Podcast
A Mythical Analysis of Deconstruction | with Bret Alderman
In this fascinating interview, we discuss Bret Alderman’s latest book, Eternal Youth and the Myth of Deconstruction – A mythical reading of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler. We discuss what is meant by deconstruction, and paradoxically notice that deconstruction itself is a psychological enactment of deeper mythical narratives. The mythical narrative identified is captured in the stories of Icarus and Peter Pan with their respective archetypal characters, particularly that of the Eternal Youth. We discuss Derrida and Butler’s respective defiance of the paternal and maternal, and identify a healthy alternative in the myth of Kairos. This is a courageous and groundbreaking thesis which psychologists in general, and Jungian analysts specifically will find intriguing.
Bret Alderman holds a PhD from Pacifica Graduate Institute, where he studied Depth Psychology. He is a life coach and writer based in Oakland, California. He is the author of Symptom, Symbol and the Other of Language: A Jungian interpretation of the Linguistic Turn (2016) published by Routledge.
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Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eternal-Youth-Myth-Deconstruction-Psychoanalysis/dp/1032455322
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