{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in Psychoanalysis","slug":"new-books-in-psychoanalysis-774396","podcast_index_feed_id":774396,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LIT2509539662","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/46891bc6-ee3e-11e8-93b3-b3490145f18f/image/01e6486ebb4d1bc7338171e33e6a93c2.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":406,"summary":"This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychoanalysis","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-psychoanalysis-774396"},"episode":{"title":"Jane G. Goldberg, \"Wired for Why: How We Think, Feel, and Make Meaning\" (2025)","slug":"jane-g-goldberg-wired-for-why-how-we-think-feel-and-make-meaning-2025","published_at":"2025-10-31T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-psychoanalysis-774396/jane-g-goldberg-wired-for-why-how-we-think-feel-and-make-meaning-2025","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-psychoanalysis-774396","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK9755752775.mp3?updated=1761758948","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK9755752775.mp3?updated=1761758948","summary":"WIRED FOR WHY: How We Think, Feel and Make Meaning. (Self-Published 2025) spans eighteen chapters exploring everything from how we manage to stay alive against all odds, to why language separates us from other species, to whether death might be a metaphor. It's a journey through neuroscience, psychoanalysis, history, and philosophy that challenges readers to reconsider their most basic assumptions about human experience. In WIRED FOR WHY, Dr. Jane Goldberg dismantles fundamental assumptions about human consciousness, memory, and experience. Humans have no \"now\"—we're perpetually living in the past as our brains lag behind reality, processing what has already happened. Memory, Goldberg argues, is an illusion, an unreliable collection of patterns distributed throughout our bodies rather than faithful recordings of our lives. This challenges everything we believe about identity and selfhood. The book explores how beer created civilization, why coffee shaped the Industrial Revolution, why \"B\" students often outperform \"A\" students, and why the brain is the only entity on Earth that named itself—a fact that reveals something profound about human self-awareness. Beyond neuroscience, Goldberg tackles pressing cultural questions: why one in six Americans takes psychiatric medication and children Google \"how to completely kill all my emotions.\" She argues we're medicating away normal human experiences at great cost to our emotional intelligence. Against our productivity-obsessed culture, she makes the counterintuitive case that spacing out and daydreaming fuel creativity, that intelligence is fundamentally a team sport requiring connection rather than isolation, and that our minds and bodies continuously eavesdrop on each other in ways we barely understand. The book doesn't off…","meta_description":"WIRED FOR WHY: How We Think, Feel and Make Meaning. (Self-Published 2025) spans eighteen chapters exploring everything from how we manage to stay alive ag…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3827,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-psychoanalysis-774396/episodes/jane-g-goldberg-wired-for-why-how-we-think-feel-and-make-meaning-2025/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-psychoanalysis-774396/jane-g-goldberg-wired-for-why-how-we-think-feel-and-make-meaning-2025.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}