{"id":567,"date":"2026-10-31T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ordinaryunhappiness.com\/?p=567"},"modified":"2026-11-06T18:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T18:45:41","slug":"episode-164-technology-telepathy-and-scanners-feat-mariana-colin-from-the-morbid-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ordinaryunhappiness.com\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"Episode 164: Technology, Telepathy, and Scanners feat. Mariana Col\u00edn from The Morbid Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/api\/rss\/u\/d3m7PxEp5smvZbVJaT8akVDUsyede5Br\/e\/173883833.mp3?sig=uAAMFx5ZWJZV3WQd2O5dLWVKlUs4Go9bAxR83AlA6uw%3D\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just in time for Halloween, Abby and Patrick welcome video essayist and scholar Mariana Col\u00edn (aka The Morbid Zoo) for a wide-ranging conversation about media, communication, consent, the problem(s) of other minds, and more. What lies behind our fantasies about science, and in what ways can our narratives about new technologies merely reprise old problems \u2013 while also creating entirely new ones? What are the limits to what we can imagine, what we can consent to, and what media can represent back to us? If perfect communication and psychic transparency were possible, would that actually be a good thing \u2013 or would it be a living nightmare?&nbsp; The three follow these questions by taking up some of Freud\u2019s strangest work \u2013 his writing on telepathy \u2013 alongside David Cronenberg\u2019s 1981 classic movie <em>Scanners<\/em>. It\u2019s a wild and rollicking journey that we promise won\u2019t make your head explode (at least not in the literal, bad way).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More Mariana is here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">YouTube:&nbsp;<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@themorbidzoo\" target=\"_blank\">(345) The Morbid Zoo &#8211; YouTube<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bluesky:&nbsp;<u><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/themorbidzoo.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\">Mariana Col\u00edn (@themorbidzoo.bsky.social) \u2014 Bluesky<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Website:&nbsp;<u><a href=\"https:\/\/morbid-field-notes.ghost.io\/writing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mariana Col\u00edn (Page 1)<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">References include:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sigmund Freud, \u201cPsychoanalysis and Telepathy\u201d (1921)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sigmund Freud, \u201cDreams and Occultism,\u201d from <em>New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis<\/em> (1933)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Claudie Massicotte, \u201c<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/10481885.2014.870840\" target=\"_blank\">Psychical Transmissions: Freud, Spiritualism, and the Occult<\/a><\/u>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maria Pierri, <u><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/occultism-and-the-origins-of-psychoanalysis-freud-ferenczi-and-the-challenge-of-thought-transference-maria-pierri\/c10248a350c38553?ean=9781032159553\" target=\"_blank\">Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Ferenczi, and the Challenge of Thought Transference<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maria Pierri, <u><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/sigmund-freud-and-the-forsyth-case-coincidences-and-thought-transmission-in-psychoanalysis-maria-pierri\/d0aa0c26c2d52254?ean=9781032159584\" target=\"_blank\">Sigmund Freud and the Forsyth Case, Coincidences and the Thought-Transmission in Psychoanalysis<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hannah Zeavin, <u><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/the-distance-cure-a-history-of-teletherapy-hannah-zeavin\/2eb37b5031f0e6e1?ean=9780262045926\" target=\"_blank\">The Distance Cure<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roger Luchurst, <u><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/the-invention-of-telepathy-professor-in-modern-and-contemporary-literature-roger-luckhurst\/a88d900ac63c2d64?ean=9780199249626\" target=\"_blank\">The Invention of Telepathy<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CS Peirce, \u201c<u><a href=\"https:\/\/philarchive.org\/rec\/PEITFO\" target=\"_blank\">The Fixation of Belief<\/a><\/u>\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Avgi Saketopoulou, <u><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/sexuality-beyond-consent-risk-race-traumatophilia-avgi-saketopoulou\/63d01b4be141f836?ean=9781479820252\" target=\"_blank\">Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have you noticed that Freud is back? Got questions about psychoanalysis? Or maybe you\u2019ve traversed the fantasy and lived to tell the tale? Leave us a voicemail! (646) 450-0847<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now. New episodes on Saturdays. 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