The Making of the Modern Self — From Descartes to Freud
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The Making of the Modern Self — From Descartes to Freud
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In this third episode of our seven-part series on biblical anthropology, Alicia continues the “demolition” phase by tracing how key post-Renaissance thinkers reshaped our modern understanding of the self. Drawing on Carl Trueman’s Strange New World, we explore how ideas from Descartes, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and Reich contributed to today’s expressive individualism—and how this cultural inheritance often stands in tension with Scripture’s integrated vision of the human person.
We also reflect on the biblical inner life, Augustine’s journey inward and outward toward God, and what it means to let God have authority over both body and soul. The episode concludes with a guided body prayer inspired by Julian of Norwich.
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