The Unified Economic Models of Faust, Friedman, and Frankenstein

"Externality" of control is the least frightening word we have for the most frightening thing we do, and this course aims to help you do some shadow work and explore your reasoning for making the choices you make, and where the price of those choices really lands. I'm going to be incorporating my favorite philosophers (Žižek, Jung, Epictetus, and Kafka) as lenses to shape 4 of the sessions, to explore and assuage confrontation with your own choices and better inform your future ones.

This is not meant to be therapy, but rather a workshop to explore consequence through a "fun" lens of horror tropes in your everyday life, and bring some kind of direction to people in liminal phases of their lives (or simply those who are fazed by the generalized anxiety about the world, which seems to grow increasingly writ large).

Example session structure below:
Jung: the monster is the unpaid balance made flesh. The shadow doesn't attack you; it invoices you.
Kafka: the terror isn't the contract's severity but its illegibility. You signed something. You were not given a copy.
Žižek: the ideological function of the monster is to let us enjoy the deal while disowning it. We need the creature to be hideous so we don't have to notice that we wanted what Dr. Frankenstein wanted.
Epictetus: the Stoic doesn't refuse the deal, he reads the price and pays it without complaint. Horror's victims are not punished for wanting things. They're punished for wanting things at a price they refused to look at.