Uploaded December 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Listen to the beginning of this episode of “The Imp of the Perverse” from Stuff To Blow Your Mind.
iheart.com/podcast/stuff-to-blow-your-mind-21123915/episode/the-imp-of-the-perverse-30844450
Episode description: In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a tale about a man overcome by the compulsion to confess to the heinous crime he sought to keep secret. The conundrum pops up in other Poe tales as well, but the so called “Imp of the Perverse” also invades the human mind with alarming regularity. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe attempt to understand just why, considering Freud, neuroscience, Ironic Process Theory and more.
Listen to the beginning of this episode of “The Imp of the Perverse” from Stuff To Blow Your Mind.
iheart.com/podcast/stuff-to-blow-your-mind-21123915/episode/the-imp-of-the-perverse-30844450
Episode description: In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a tale about a man overcome by the compulsion to confess to the heinous crime he sought to keep secret. The conundrum pops up in other Poe tales as well, but the so called “Imp of the Perverse” also invades the human mind with alarming regularity. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe attempt to understand just why, considering Freud, neuroscience, Ironic Process Theory and more.
