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“The male host’s voice is way too low in volume, whereas everyone else’s voice is way too high in volume. I find myself constantly pressing the volume up or down depending on who is talking. He also tends to mumble stuff really fast, rendering whatever he’s saying unintelligible, unless I slow down the speed and turn the volume up way high. And then I pause, to turn the volume back down, before the next person responds, so that I don’t blow my ears out. Some basic post-recording equalization would be a huge improvement. Not sure how they’ve gone months into this without getting the sound quality ironed out.
I initially had very high hopes for this podcast, and had a paid subscription on patreon since its inception. I absolutely loved the episode on the uncanny. However, I come away from most episodes feeling like I’ve retained very little about whatever bits of psychoanalytic theory were touched upon. There is too much tangential trivia, too many episodes centered around pop culture, and of course now entire episodes focused on academically fashionable genderqueer stuff… and too frequently getting lost in the weeds of historical trivia (as a lay person, I just do not have the time or desire to learn about Freud’s many correspondences and the trace influences of various lesser known thinkers on his ideas).
I thought this podcast was going to provide a core education of psychoanalytic concepts - especially the basic canonical ideas of major figures. But we’re already four? episodes into the Standard Edition and still stuck in preliminary scene-setting. I’m tapping out.”
Bovlvovlv via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/18/23
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