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a podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now | feat @counter_factual & @patblanchfield 🚨 new episodes on saturdays 🚨

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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨We're joined by the great Sabrina Strings @SaStrings to talk her new book, The End of Love! it's a tour thru the history of western ideologies of romance, from troubadours to fuckboys, from victorian courtship to online dating, and beyond!
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73: Romance Was Never Real: From Courtly Love to the Rise of the...

Abby and Patrick welcome Sabrina Strings, professor and North Hall Chair of Black Studies at UC Santa Barbara, to talk about her new book, The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance....

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!!! for once in our lives we're actually speechless !!!
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🚨🚨🚨EPISODE ONE: WHAT IS PSYCHOANALYSIS? out now!!!! 🚨🚨🚨
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A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now, featuring Abby Kluchin & Patrick Blanchfield

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Happy Father's Day!
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things are getting Real! Ordinary Unhappiness Ep 1 "What is Psychoanalysis?" drops 4/1 on all your favorite podcast platforms. Sign up for updates, exclusive content, and more at
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for revolutionary psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, material oppression registered in mental anguish, and demanded both direct political redress and attuned therapeutic care. the great @NicaSiegel expertly walks us through Fanon's biography, writing, and legacies
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17: Fanon the Clinician feat. Nica Siegel - Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick welcome political theorist Nica Siegel, author of a forthcoming manuscript on the politics of exhaustion, including a recently published chapter, “Fanon's Clinic: Revolutionary...

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🚨🚨🚨 EPISODE TWO: TRANSFERENCE out now!🚨🚨🚨
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We're joined by family abolitionists @reproutopia and @genderhorizon to talk about the family as a historic institution, as a fantasy ideal, as a political rallying cry, and as a messy nexus of struggle, care, trauma, and taboos
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45: The Fantasy of Family and the Meaning of Family Abolition feat....

Abby and Patrick welcome writer Sophie Lewis and writer and psychotherapist M.E. O’Brien to discuss their recent books on family abolition, Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation and...

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🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 We're joined by the brilliant @liz_franczak of @TrueAnonPod to talk conspiracy theories, their history and libidinal functions, the bizarre Mel Gibson - Julia Roberts MKUltra thriller/rom-com "Conspiracy Theory" (1997), and so much more!
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69: Truth, Lies, and Conspiracy Theories feat. Liz Franczak -...

Abby, Patrick, and Dan welcome the incomparable Liz Franczak of TrueAnon! The topic is conspiracy theories, from real to imagined, documented to discredited, ludicrous to all-too-likely, and more....

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Freud wondered whether all love was really just transference love. Lacan suggested love was giving someone something they didn't want that you yourself didn't have. Before you shrug your shoulders and despairingly ask, "Who's to say?" the answer is: We are, and why the hell not?
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EPISODE THREE: Guess Who’s Back, Back Again (It’s Freud) feat. Hannah Zeavin ( @HZeavin ) & Alex Colston ( @re_colston ) 🚨🚨🚨 OUT NOW! 🚨🚨🚨
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04: Guess Who’s Back, Back Again (It’s Freud) feat. Hannah Zeavin and...

Abby and Patrick welcome Hannah Zeavin and Alex Colston, founders of the Psychosocial Foundation and Parapraxis magazine. The four discuss their paths to psychoanalysis; speculate about why Freud is...

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new episode: how can psychoanalysis help us think about politics and violence? we talk about logics of identification, exclusion, repetition, pleasure, cruelty, and more, with particular attention to mass shootings and the heinous killing of Jordan Neely
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08: Political Economy, Libidinal Economy - Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby puts Patrick on the hot seat to talk psychoanalysis and politics. They discuss how psychoanalytic concepts can help bypass partisan political explanations; the construction of a “we”; identifi...

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omg we're on this list!!!
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‘I haven’t been so gripped by a podcast, ever’: your favourite listens of 2023 so far
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🚨new episode! 🚨 we talk with @Avgolis and Ann Pellegrini, co-authors of the powerful new book Gender Without Identity, about "repressive forces" within psychoanalysis, gender as an experiment versus destination, moral panics over "protecting" kids & more
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29: Gender, Trauma, and Psychoanalytic Politics feat. Avgi Saketopo...

Abby and Patrick welcome psychoanalyst Avgi Saketopoulou and psychoanalyst and academic Ann Pellegrini to discuss their new co-authored book, Gender Without Identity. They talk about the genesis of...

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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We talked with psychoanalyst and psychologist Jess Ghannam about his research and work on mental health in Gaza; how state repression and psychic repression work in tandem; what PTSD means in a place where the traumas don't stop; and more
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51: Psychoanalysis and Gaza feat. Jess Ghannam - Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick welcome Palestinian psychoanalyst and psychologist Dr. Jess Ghannam to talk about his twenty-five years of work doing empirical research and carrying out public health initiatives in...

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🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 we tackle Succession, primal horde monster dads, the anxieties of patriarchy, why the phallus is not the penis but a kind of tragic McGuffin instead, and everything about Oedipus you were too afraid of castration anxiety to ask
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episode two, "transference" is in the can and dropping tomorrow!
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The Ordinary Unhappiness hotline is now fully operational! Leave us a message / ask us a question at (484) 775-0107!
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we talked with the delightful @benwurgaft about Freud's unfunny joke book, good jokes, bad jokes and dad jokes, Jewish humor, the social work of wisecracks, and being A Serious Person. come for the salmon mayonnaise, stay for the drunk whales!!!
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23: Puns, Jokes, and Serious People feat. Ben Wurgaft - Ordinary...

Abby and Patrick welcome intellectual historian, writer, editor, and noted wordsmith Ben Wurgaft. They talk about Ben’s experiences with long-term analysis and discuss ways of accessing low-cost...

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it's the end of the semester! time to commence our reading of the entire Standard Edition from cover to cover to cover to cover...
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🚨 New Episode! 🚨 we talk to the incomparable Grace Lavery ( @graceelavery ) about her new book, "Pleasure and Efficacy," pragmatic political uses of Freud, desire and shame, identity and activism, and the stakes of debates over what it means to be "real"
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22: Realism and Other Romances feat. Grace Lavery - Ordinary Unhapp...

Abby and Patrick welcome writer and academic Grace Lavery to discuss her new book Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques. They discuss Grace’s relationship to...

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🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 We're joined by clinician Loren Dent, who accessibly walks us thru the idea of psychosis in both analytic theory and real-world practice! Plus: anxieties over "madness," treating people with psychosis in Eric Adams' New York, and more!
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62: Lacan and Psychosis in the City feat. Loren Dent - Ordinary...

Abby and Patrick welcome Loren Dent, a clinical psychologist in the Lacanian tradition. The topic is psychosis, both as understood theoretically by Freud and Lacan, and also as experienced and...

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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We learned so much from Kevin Duong ( @ktduong88 ) about the incredible story and legacy of Harlem's Lafargue Clinic (1946-1958), the repressed history of radical psychoanalysis in the US, how transference relates to scarcity, and much more!
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53: Broke Psychoanalysis: Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic feat. Kevin Duong...

Patrick and Abby welcome politics professor Kevin Duong to discuss his research on the history of the Lafargue Clinic (1946-1958), an experiment in radical psychoanalysis aimed at providing free care...

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we're so innovative in our disruption we're dropping saturday's content today! we talked with the brilliant @moiragweigel about the Frankfurt School, our fantasies of tech titans, their fantasies about themselves, silicon valley labor solidarity and more!
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16: Fantasy, Fascism, and Technology: From the Frankfurt School to...

Abby, Patrick, and Dan welcome writer, critic, and scholar Moira Weigel, co-founder of Logic magazine and co-editor with Ben Tarnoff of Voices of the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do And...

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absolutely read this and tune in on Saturday for our conversation with @NicaSiegel about Fanon as a clinician, transferential constellations, psychosis versus neurosis, revolutionary subjectivity, and much more!
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On this date in 1925, Frantz Fanon was born. Read one of our features on his work and legacy in our forthcoming issue on repair. "To be a good therapist, it seemed, increasingly meant to participate directly in revolutionary activity."— @NicaSiegel
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just when you thought it was safe - the repressed returns! we tackle the limits of rationality, “kettle logic,” Freud as a “master of suspicion,” narcissistic wounds, family secrets and intergenerational trauma, and the child as the symptom of the parents
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07: Kettle Logic and Family Secrets: The Uncanny, Part II - Ordinary...

Abby and Patrick return to Freud’s idea of the “uncanny” as an unconventional path to their real target: the unconscious. They talk about the limits of our rationality; “kettle logic” and how it...

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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 The great @annashechtman , author of The Riddles of the Sphinx, talks the pleasure of puzzles; French feminism and sexual difference; forgotten histories; how the unconscious is structured like a language from Lacan to Wordle, and more!
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57: “Do More Crosswords!” The Sexual Politics of Language feat. Anna...

Abby and Patrick welcome writer, academic, and cruciverbalist Anna Shechtman, author of The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle, a book that’s part personal...

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the child is the symptom of the parent
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The Biden White House Has Yet Another Dog That Keeps Biting People

(Don't let your dogs bite people.)

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on our latest episode we're joined by the redoubtable @SamAdlerBell , co-host of our favorite podcast ( @KnowYrEnemyPod ), to talk psychoanalysis and politics, betrayal in relations analytic, journalistic, and otherwise, and so much more!
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13: The Journalist and the Analyst: On Janet Malcolm feat. Sam...

Abby and Patrick welcome journalist and critic Sam Adler-Bell, co-host of Dissent magazine’s Know Your Enemy podcast. They talk about how Sam came to study conservative thought from a leftist...

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🚨NEW EPISODE: Get Freudpilled! 🚨 @counter_factual launches our journey into the Standard Edition! we talk why we’re doing this, how people form transferential relationships with texts and parasocial bonds with authors, problematic faves, and much more!
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🚨new episode🚨special guest @xtinesmallwood 🚨 we talk group life, group chats, projection vs projective identification, counter-transference as insight in clinic and classroom, plus Dan reveals how Bion helped him lifehack (and exit) corporate America
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12: From Parties to Projective Identification: Why is Group Life so...

Abby and Patrick welcome novelist and literary critic Christine Smallwood, author of The Life of the Mind. They discuss the novel’s protagonist Dorothy (who hires a second therapist to talk about her...

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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We spoke with the great @kate_manne about her new book "Unshrinking"; fatphobia and diet culture; hierarchies of desirability and disposability; logics of scapegoating, anxiety over pleasure, moral emotions of shame and disgust - and more!
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Abby and Patrick welcome philosopher Kate Manne, author of Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny (2017), Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women (2020), and the forthcoming Unshrinking: How to Face...

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🚨 NEW EPISODE! 🚨 We talk with the great @sarahljaffe , author of the brand new "From the Ashes," about love, mourning, and how the lost objects we grieve - from people to places to ideals - can fuel and transform political action
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64: Grief, Loss, and Love feat. Sarah Jaffe - Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick welcome labor journalist Sarah Jaffe – author of Necessary Trouble and Work Won’t Love You Back – for her first interview about her forthcoming book, From the Ashes: Grief and...

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is it just your unconscious talking -- or is it getting spooky in here? why not both! Episode 6, our first of two on The Uncanny, is out now! 🚨🤖🧠👻🚨
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06: Unheimlich Maneuver: The Uncanny, Part I - Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby, Patrick, and Dan sneak up on the idea of the unconscious by tackling Freud’s concept of the “uncanny,” and its relationship to anxiety, fear, and the “omnipotence of thoughts.” They talk horror...

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ah, July 4th, the day USer celebrate how a band of brothers overthrew their own monstrous ur-father and made a pact between themselves to split the resources he had denied them and enjoy the fruits of theft, extraction, and domination themselves in harmonious equality and freedom
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happy monday! two cool things. first: we're recording a mailbag episode this week! give us a call with your questions, dreams, fantasies, etc. (484) 775-0107! second: our first patreon ep, transference part 2 feat @PatBlanchfield and Dan, drops tomorrow!
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folks: we are putting so much work into our upcoming (two-parter!) thanksgiving episode because there is just SO MUCH there
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tremendously excited to interview Benjamin Fong about his latest book, Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge
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🚨NEW EPISODE! 🚨 We talked with the brilliant Jade E Davis ( @jadedid ) about her new book, the history of "empathy" from human zoos to social media, her incisive and revelatory critique of "empathy culture," and so much more. check it out!
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Abby and Patrick welcome Jade E. Davis, author of the new book The Other Side of Empathy. They discuss Jade’s critique of naïve notions of “empathy” and what she calls “empathy culture.” They examine...

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this morning we're recording the second of our subscriber episodes on the Standard Edition, on Freud's early research in neurology and his time with Charcot, and reviewing these diagrams (by Freud himself) is simply delightful!
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we're in the paper of record defining the generational reconfigurations of the superego thanks to the brilliant (and hilarious) @sarahlovescali . obey your parental introjects and read it, they'll be even more disappointed in you if you don't
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Hate Gen X? Get in Line (Behind a Gen X-er). (Published 2023)

Unlike boomers, who often bristle at being criticized by young people, I say good luck to young people trying to make me and my peers feel bad.

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in typically vatic fashion, Jacques Lacan once said "it is well known that the ears are made not to hear with." whatever that may mean, we at Ordinary Unhappiness are committed to delivering the best quality audio possible, and our brilliant producer Dan is hard at work on it
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we talked with the brilliant @thrasherxy about how capitalism and the denial of mortality facilitate mass death, how we don't just have or own bodies but are them, and what living together as parts of one big social body means for true solidarity and care
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27: From HIV to COVID: Virality, Vulnerability, and Interdependence...

Abby and Patrick welcome Steven Thrasher, author of The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide. We discuss Steven’s singular career trajectory (from Saturday Night Live...

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our interview with philosopher @kate_manne about her forthcoming book Unshrinking drops this Saturday!
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🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 We sat down with Ben Fong to explore the USA's singular love affair with drugs legal and otherwise. we talk what drugs do (and don't), what drugs mean, and the many anxieties, fantasies, and policies we weave around them. check it out!
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24: Drugs and the Death Drive feat. Ben Fong - Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick welcome academic and writer Ben Fong, author of the new book Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge as well as Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic...

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🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨 We're joined by @BklynInstitute 's Ajay Singh Chaudhary ( @materialist_jew ) to discuss his new book! From crypto mines to online gold farms to mindfulness boxes we talk extraction, exhaustion, the history of "resilience," and more
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47: Extraction, Exhaustion, and the Problem with Resilience feat....

Abby and Patrick welcome Ajay Singh Chaudhary, Executive Director of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and author of The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World. In our convers...

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@mollyhfischer thank you so much for this, truly, it is splendid and we are overwhelmed 🙏
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🚨new episode alert 🚨 our Wild Analysis series continues! we talk problematic faves, how people can lead us to crucial ideas even as they themselves can disappoint, nostalgia, growing up, guilty pleasures, and more, plus random run-ins with Slavoj Zizek
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taking a cue from freud we're spending this week on holiday! here's the good doctor in hiking gear together with anna on alpine vacation in 1913. he'd take everyone mushrooming hunting and blow a little whistle to summon them to inspect particularly good finds new ep next week!
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incredibly amped to record today on Oedipus, Primal Fathers, failsons, and, yes, Succession!
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our YouTube channel is now fully operational (and has everything except our Patreon content)!
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Ordinary Unhappiness

A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now, featuring Abby Kluchin & Patrick Blanchfield Linktree: https://linktr.ee/O...

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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 The first installment of our multi-part episode on Jacques Lacan's mirror stage is out now! We talk who Lacan was, why he's so notoriously difficult, why difficulty isn't everything, and what the deal is with that suspiciously happy baby👶🪞
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39: It’s Not You, It’s Lacan: The Mirror Stage, Part I - Ordinary...

Abby, Patrick, and Dan kick off their 2024 Lacan era by tackling his single most famous essay and concept: the mirror stage. Because Lacan is notoriously difficult, this is going to take multiple...

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tired: worried people wondering, what if Klaus Theweleit and Wilhelm Reich were right about everything wired: febrile Young Republicans saying, yes, and we're leaning the fuck into it
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We finish our three-parter on Lacan's mirror stage! But can there ever *truly* be an exit from the mirror stage and the traps of identification? Where does therapy end and new possibilities for remaking ourselves and the world begin?
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43: The Mirror Crack’d: The Mirror Stage, Part III - Ordinary...

Abby, Patrick, and Dan conclude their adventure through Lacan’s mirror stage! They reprise Lacan’s parable of the mirror-besotted baby and tie together the many threads – theoretical, clinical, and...

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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨we're joined by the brlliant Rebecca Ariel Porte ( @___OED___ ) to tackle a much-asked question: what's the deal with the pleasure principle, and the reality principle too? we talk paradises lost, utopias, fantasies, daydreams, and more!
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55: What is the Pleasure Principle? feat. Rebecca Ariel Porte -...

Abby and Patrick welcome scholar and literary critic Rebecca Ariel Porte of Dilettante Army and the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research to talk about the key Freudian concept of the pleasure...

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Some questions may be impossible, and some work may be interminable, but that's no reason for us not to have some fun. Our first episode, "What Is Psychoanalysis" drops on 4/1! No previous knowledge of psychoanalysis is required. Sign up for updates here:
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Psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture and the ways we suffer now, every Saturday

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🚨GERONTOPHALLOCRACY 2024: The June Debate🚨 on the Goldwater Rule, defense mechanisms, splitting, contagion fantasies, disavowed realities, and what exactly happened Thursday night - and after
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Episode 59: Gerontophallocracy 2024: The June Debate | Ordinary Unhappiness

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our latest ep is a crossover with @BklynInstitute feat. the brilliant @daniel_m_lavery , @___OED___ , and @KaliGinger ! they talk Dear Prudence, how advice columns dramatize changing social norms, transference, parasocial relationships, and much more!
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19: Advice and Anonymity feat. Danny Lavery, Rebecca Ariel Porte, and...

Ordinary Unhappiness presents a live recording of the Podcast for Social Research! Abby recently joined Danny Lavery, Rebecca Ariel Porte, and Kali Handelman to celebrate Danny’s new book, Dear...

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we're going on a brief COVID hiatus while @PatBlanchfield isolates in the guest room AKA our recording studio - will be back Dec 16th! If you're missing your regular OU fix it's a great time to check out our many bonus episodes on Patreon:
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🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 we talk with the wonderful @thesaramarcus about her book Political Disappointment and disappointment as "an untimely desire" that can sustain survival and fuel creativity. plus: campaign songs, our youthful political letdowns, and more
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50: Political Disappointment feat. Sara Marcus - Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick are joined by academic, journalist, and critic Sara Marcus, author of the 2023 book Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis. After...

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🚨 NEW EPISODE! 🚨 Our journey through Lacan's mirror stage continues! What's the deal with this baby, how is its joy before the mirror also a kind of tragedy, and to what extent do *all* our identifications require alienation and misrecognition?
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41: Identification and Misrecognition: The Mirror Stage, Part II -...

Our journey through Lacan’s “mirror stage” continues as the scene before the mirror unfolds into a tragic drama. Abby, Patrick, and Dan unpack the many meanings of “identification” and how, for...

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It's October, @PatBlanchfield and Dan love horror, and @counter_factual is being very brave. On Saturday's Patreon ep, we plumb the suburban uncanny, explore the pleasures of fright, confess our childhood fears, and ask what Freud would've made of homicidal manchild Michael Myers
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our journey into the standard edition continues! in our latest ep we talk neurasthenia (AKA nineteenth century burnout), hypnotism, how Freud sucked at hypnotism, and more!
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18: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 2: Hysteria, Hypnosis, and...

Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessWe’re back with a new installment of the Standard Edition! We...

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a new class from our very own @PatBlanchfield
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Melanie Klein: Love, Guilt, and Psychoanalysis | April BISR Online Courses |
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We're proud to be affiliated with @Parapraxis_Mag - and strongly encourage donations to support their vital work!
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An appeal from our Editor: Parapraxis is nearly one year old! We're completely dependent on subscribers & small donations. To keep printing our vital magazine, we need your help. Subscribe: Make a tax-deductible donation:
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@HZeavin Kermode's Genesis of Secrecy
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We give Alex Garland's "Civil War" the Wild Analysis treatment. What kind of fantasy is this? And if the steady profusion of fantasies about another US Civil War is a symptom, then what anxieties - and disavowals - do our fantasies betray?
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49: Wild Analysis: Civil War Teaser - Ordinary Unhappiness

Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessWhile Abby’s voice is still gone, Dan and Patrick take in a film on...

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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We're joined by @markkrotov and @lisa_borst to talk two decades of @nplusonemag ; the arc of intellectual discourse from the Bush years to Trump; transferential dynamics among editors, writers, and audiences, and more!
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72: Track Changes feat. Lisa Borst and Mark Krotov of n+1 - Ordinary...

Abby and Patrick welcome Lisa Borst and Mark Krotov of literary magazine n+1. The magazine is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year and marking this milestone with the publication of The...

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this is gonna be awesome!!!!!!!!!!
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i am so excited that, for the next two years, i'll be working on ALL FREUD'S CHILDREN, a new book about the children of psychoanalysts, and taking on some of the myths that run my life. with deepest thanks to @kfzbarrow , @penguinpress , & @dimarutman .
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🚨 NEW EPISODE! 🚨We talked with analyst and social worker Brian Ngo-Smith about homelessness, the impulse to help, the disavowal of hate, the erotics of care, and so much more
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36: Hate, Help, and Housing: Psychoanalysis and Social Work feat....

Abby and Patrick welcome psychoanalyst and clinical social worker Brian Ngo-Smith, President of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW). Focusing on his paper...

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prepping to interview the brilliant @moiragweigel and there's so much we want to talk about: tech titans and the frankfurt school, the algorithmic mediation of desire via online dating, aggression and QTs, more. anyway: buy her and @bentarnoff 's latest!
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Voices from the Valley a book by Ben Tarnoff

From FSGO x Logic: anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, providing a bird's-eye view of the industry In Voices from the Valley, the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira...

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must-read from Lydia Polgreen w key shout-outs to @graceelavery and @Avgolis + Ann Pellegrini
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Opinion | Born This Way? Born Which Way?

The panic over transgender children is driven by the fear that they’ll regret transitioning. But freedom to make mistakes is core to being human.

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🚨🚨🚨 time for some Wild Analysis: we take calls in our latest episode - out now! 🚨🚨🚨
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Wild Analysis: Mailbag Episode! | Ordinary Unhappiness

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new Wild Analysis! in the spirit of the season, we talk horror as a feeling and a genre, reveal what scared us as kids versus what scares us as adults, and examine John Carpenter's classic "Halloween" (1978)
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28: Wild Analysis: Halloween (1978) Teaser - Ordinary Unhappiness

Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAfter a long chat about why people like and dislike horror – and an...

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friends! Ordinary Unhappiness has a youtube channel now! if you prefer consuming your podcasts with lofi academic ASMR vibes, we've got you covered!
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01: What is Psychoanalysis? | Ordinary Unhappiness with Abby Kluchin...

Abby and Patrick talk about the position of “the subject-supposed-to-know” and how they anxiously inhabit it; Anna O., the “talking cure” and the founding of...

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🚨 NEW EPISODE FOR PATREON SUPPORTERS🚨 The first of our two-part Thanksgiving Specials tackles the so-called "Holiday Syndrome," the family scene in all its yearnings and pain, what it means to regress, and why so many holiday dishes resemble baby food
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Episode 31: Thanksgiving Special, Part 1: The Holiday Syndrome | Ordinary Unhappiness

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this whole episode was superb (and yes we cheered like proud parents at the part when @SamAdlerBell gets to truly shine re Freud)
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On the latest @KnowYrEnemyPod , a conversation on the late neoconservative icon and anti-feminist Midge Decter, with @MoiraDonegan and @adriandaub
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. @counter_factual and @PatBlanchfield co-wrote for @DilettanteArmy on a topic near and dear to our hearts - the subject supposed to know. It's a classic psychoanalytic concept with real world implications. Please use it for good and not evil!
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Knowing, Not Knowing, Knowing Better

Abby Kluchin and Patrick Blanchfield take on our anxieties and fantasies about whether there’s a doctor in the house through an explanation of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s sujet supposé savoir,...

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what's that? a new episode, you say?
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we have COVID, so for this week we've unlocked Pat and Dan talking free guitars, how there is no outside of transference, and why that's good actually. new content - Standard Edition #2 , special guest @SamAdlerBell , more mailbag fun - resumes next week!
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UNLOCKED: Short Session 1 - Transference, continued - Ordinary...

Unlocked Patreon episode. Support Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon to get access to all the exclusive episodes.Continuing the conversation on transference started in Episode 2, Patrick and Dan discuss...

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we talked about so much on this episode its impossible to succinctly summarize here - esp RE themes of exhaustion, different polemical versions of Fanon, &c - but we learned A TON from Nica, whose latest in @Parapraxis_Mag you should definitely read
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Destiny To Be Set Free — Parapraxis

Fanon Between Reparation and Repair Nica Siegel

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if you can't get enough of people talking about psychoanalysis on your TL here's about 50 hours of us on @UnhappinessPod doing it. simply listening to the first episode ("What is Psychoanalysis?") will make you more of an expert than that guy from Vox!
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we're so excited for this!!!
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Announcing, with @PsychosocialFo1 , our Third Seminar: The Wish! As always, all events and courses are sliding-scale (including free). For more information: Registration:
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we're taping a year-in-review, year-ahead episode next week - hit us up here, on patreon, etc with any questions, vibe checks, etc. you want us to pursue! and as ever our voicemail remains open 24/7 for your dreams, anxieties, complexes, etc at US (484) 775-0107
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🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨 we spoke with Joseph Earl Thomas ( @jetvgc ) about his amazing new novel, the meanings of "trauma" from popular discourse to literature to emergency rooms, US empire, liberal fantasies about the dignity of work, family, and so much more!
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60: Love and Work feat. Joseph Earl Thomas - Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick welcome writer and academic Joseph Earl Thomas, author of the 2023 memoir Sink and a new novel, God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer. Set over the course of a single, chaotic day in a...

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and whatever you do don't miss Kevin's amazing essay about the Clinic in @Parapraxis_Mag !
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Broke Psychoanalysis — Parapraxis

In memory of Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic Kevin Duong

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our first Patreon-only segment is out! join @PatBlanchfield and Dan as they continue the conversation on transference, bartending, and lots more besides
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BONUS CONTENT: SHORT SESSION I - TRANSFERENCE, CONTINUED | Ordinary Unhappiness

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🚨NEW EPISODE: MAILBAG TIME!🚨 We take your calls, talking the value of diagnostic categories, neoliberalism and mental health crises, and a Christopher Nolan-style dream involving nicotine patches and a mysterious figure who may or may not be Kanye West
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15: Diagnosis and Identity: Mailbag Episode! - Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby, Patrick, and Dan take your calls! They spend the bulk of the episode on a fascinating question about whether or not it is important to know your own psychic structure. They consider the...

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🚨NEW PATREON EPISODE🚨 In a world wracked by resource wars and colonial repression, where messianic expectations and best intentions seem to only ever yield mass death, we talk all things Dune, from the Herbert novels to the Villeneuve films and beyond
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Episode 46: Wild Analysis: Dune | Ordinary Unhappiness

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also there's this little guy, who rules
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our Thanksgiving Special begins tomorrow! tune in on Patreon for Part I: The Holiday Syndrome
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🚨NEW EPISODE: THANKSGIVING SPECIAL PART 2🚨 We move from family rituals and traumas to social traumas and historical crimes; the history of the holiday and behind the holiday; and the fantasies, brutalities, and anxieties of settler colonialism itself
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Episode 32: Thanksgiving Special, Part 2: Murder, Myth, and Memory | Ordinary Unhappiness

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🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨we had a magnificent time talking JD Vance, Kamala Harris, and the libidinal churn of the electoral landscape with the great @SamAdlerBell of @KnowYrEnemyPod
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Episode 67: Gerontophallocracy 2024: Lethal Mothers and Try-Hard Sons feat. Sam Adler-Bell |...

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🚨 NEW STANDARD EDITION EPISODE 🚨 Christine Smallwood joins us as we get to know Freud's dearest correspondent, frenemy, and intellectual "alter" Wilhelm Fliess, a man who saw the nose as the window into the soul
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30: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 4: Wilhelm Fliess: The Anxiety of...

Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessIn the latest installment of the Standard Edition, we begin the...

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