The Fractured Self Podcast
Who are you when you drop the mask? Join Rich as he explores the intersection of depth psychology, existential philosophy, and authentic identity. This isn't self-help or motivation, it's a step into the unconscious patterns, shadow work, and existential questions that shape who we really are. Drawing from Jungian psychology, existentialist thought, and raw personal reflection, each episode examines the fractured spaces where our authentic selves hide beneath societal conditioning. For those ready to question not just what they believe, but why they exist at all.
The Fractured Self Podcast
Latest Episodes
Why Camus Said Most People Are Already Dead
Camus thought a successful, unexamined life was a quieter kind of suicide. Here's what he actually argued. Albert Camus was twenty-eight, stranded in occupied France with diseased lungs, when he wrote that there is only one serious...
The False Self Was Never the Problem
In 1942, Donald Winnicott was assessing children evacuated out of London during the Blitz, and the ones the system marked as coping best were the ones he found most disturbing. They had stopped crying for their mothers. They had made themselves...
Jung on the Persona: Why Dropping the Mask Is the Wrong Instruction
Jung never said drop the mask. He said understand it. Why the persona is necessary, what the shadow really is, and why "find your authentic self" is the trap. In December 1913, Carl Jung was thirty-eight, professionally successful,...
Das Man: Heidegger on the Self That Isn't Yours
Heidegger called it das Man: the self made of borrowed opinions and issued tastes. Why trying to be authentic is part of the same trap. The German philosopher Martin Heidegger gave a name to the self that isn't yours: das Man, the ...
