Defiant Humanism in Intimate Relationships: Love as an Act of Existential Insurgency

05/03/2025 1h 12min
Defiant Humanism in Intimate Relationships: Love as an Act of Existential Insurgency

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Episode Synopsis

Human intimacy thrives on contradiction. We crave connection yet armor ourselves with projections; we seek healing while clinging to trauma’s familiar syntax. Defiant humanism—rooted in Alice Roberts’ call to “reclaim agency through radical presence” and Sarah Bakewell’s celebration of “humanist freethinking”—invites couples to wage war against these paradoxes by engaging only in the raw now.