In this conversation, Samir Chopra invites us to think of anxiety not as a sign of failure or pathology, but as an indispensable part of being human. Drawing on Buddhist philosophy, psychoanalysis, existentialism, and critical theory, Chopra explores how anxiety reveals the fragility of the self and the contingency of the world, while also serving as a gateway to self-understanding, care, agency and even social critique.

"Self-knowledge emerges as an exercise of human agency, to be understood as the way in which one takes responsibility for one’s own mind."