#77 How The Search For Self Became The Performance Of Self: A Discussion With Author Patricia Martin

Author Patricia Martin joins me to discuss her new book, Will the Future Like You? Reflections on the Age of Hyper-reinvention. Martin has written four books, and her work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Huffington Post, The New York Times, and Psyche Magazine.

She holds an MFA in non-fiction from Bennington College, with post-graduate work in medical narrative at Duke University. She holds workshops in Jungian theory at the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago and hosts the podcast Jung in the World.

You will hear:

• How other people see us is how we see ourselves (letting the algorithm define us) and how we can consciously choose who we want to be and claim our authentic selves
• Our consciousness is for sale and social media is the supply chain - How parasocial relationships affect and influence us
• How social media has exacerbated the FOMO (fear of missing out) because we can see everything everyone is doing and wondering why we weren’t invited
• Modern society is in the grips of what Freud termed a cultural “death drive”
• And more!

Links:

Patricia’s website: https://patricia-martin.com/

Patricia’s book: https://rb.gy/fojfup

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