Dr. Steven Stolz

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1,482 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 21 Jul

Dr. Steven Stolz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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It's not funny.

But but that challenges the therapeutic culture's obsession with happiness and satisfaction.

Now don't get me started on our obsession with happiness.

In Western culture, it is an obsession.

So thank you for actually talking about it.

Now, can you explain how psychoanalysis reframes our relationship to dissatisfaction?

So that's kind of like it's a two-parter here.

And and so why is the pursuit of enjoyment fundamentally different from and perhaps maybe more honest than the pursuit of happiness?

I I I I I like I like this is why I like the concept so much because

Iowa, I think it includes

And it's in it's inclusive of suffering too.

Like I know

It it culturally that's a taboo type of topic, right?

To suffer.

But there's an enjoyment level in suffering, right?

So because when I hear you talk, I I automatically think, oh hang on, that that's just a form of suffering, you know, like suffering.

With without a doubt.

I mean, I always think of the mythosyphus, right?

And and everyone just despised you know, despairs, you know, the whole concept.

you know, of the rock going up the mountain.

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