Ordinary Unhappiness

A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now, featuring Abby Kluchin & Patrick Blanchfield

83: Religion and Neurosis feat. Nathan Rein Teaser

82: Effing the Ineffable feat. Simon Critchley

81: Mailbag Part II: Readings and Misreadings Teaser

80: On Fantasy feat. Jordan Stein

UNLOCKED: 31: Thanksgiving Special, Part 1: The Holiday Syndrome

79: Mailbag Episode: Resistances (Part One) Teaser

78: Reactionary Fantasies: On “Cancel Culture” and Moral Panic feat. Adrian Daub

UNLOCKED: 49: Wild Analysis: Civil War

77: Gerontophallocracy 2024: Post-Election Processing Teaser

76: Gerontophallocracy 2024: Floating Signifiers Teaser

75: Psychosocial Realism feat. Daniel Lavery

74: The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, Part II Teaser

73: Romance Was Never Real: From Courtly Love to the Rise of the Fuckboy feat. Sabrina Strings

72: Track Changes feat. Lisa Borst and Mark Krotov of n+1

71: Gerontophallocracy 2024: Proxy Battles Teaser

70: Wild Analysis: Heathers Teaser

UNLOCKED: 38: Wild Analysis: Taylor Swift

69: Truth, Lies, and Conspiracy Theories feat. Liz Franczak

68: Gerontophallocracy 2024: The September Debate: Domination and Other Pleasures Teaser

67: Gerontophallocracy 2024: Lethal Mothers and Try-Hard Sons feat. Sam Adler-Bell Teaser

66: Teens, Cops, and Spies: The Varieties of Hysterical Experience feat. Dan Taberski

65: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 11: The Project for a Scientific Psychology Part 2 Teaser

64: Grief, Loss, and Love feat. Sarah Jaffe

63: The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, Part I Teaser

62: Lacan and Psychosis in the City feat. Loren Dent

61: Gerontophallocracy 2024: Reality Testing and Temporal Distortion (It’s So Joever) Teaser

60: Love and Work feat. Joseph Earl Thomas

59: Gerontophallocracy 2024: The June Debate Teaser

58: Wild Analysis: The Idea of You feat. Anna Shechtman Teaser

57: “Do More Crosswords!” The Sexual Politics of Language feat. Anna Shechtman

56: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 10: The Project for a Scientific Psychology Part 1 Teaser

55: What is the Pleasure Principle? feat. Rebecca Ariel Porte

54: Wild Analysis: Challengers Teaser

53: Broke Psychoanalysis: Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic feat. Kevin Duong

52: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 9: Repression is a Scorpio: The Final Fliess Extracts feat. Christine Smallwood Teaser

51: Psychoanalysis and Gaza feat. Jess Ghannam

50: Political Disappointment feat. Sara Marcus

49: Wild Analysis: Civil War Teaser

UNLOCKED: 21: Wild Analysis: The Trauma Plot and the Joss Whedon Extended Cinematic Universe

48: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 8: Oedipus Approaches: The Fliess Extracts, Continued feat. Christine Smallwood Teaser

47: Extraction, Exhaustion, and the Problem with Resilience feat. Ajay Singh Chaudhary

Episode 46: Wild Analysis: Dune Teaser

45: The Fantasy of Family and the Meaning of Family Abolition feat. Sophie Lewis and M.E. O’Brien

44: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 7: The Prehistoric Other and the Great Lord Penis: The Fliess Extracts, Continued feat. Christine Smallwood Teaser

43: The Mirror Crack’d: The Mirror Stage, Part III

42: Wild Analysis: The President’s Analyst Teaser

41: Identification and Misrecognition: The Mirror Stage, Part II

40: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 6: The Symptom is a Compromise: The Fliess Extracts, Continued feat. Christine Smallwood Teaser

39: It’s Not You, It’s Lacan: The Mirror Stage, Part I

38: Wild Analysis: Taylor Swift Teaser

UNLOCKED: 25: Wild Analysis: Barbie

37: New Year’s Mailbag: The Capacity for Change Teaser

36: Hate, Help, and Housing: Psychoanalysis and Social Work feat. Brian Ngo-Smith

35: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 5: Fragments, Paranoia, and Projection: The Fliess Extracts, Continued feat. Christine Smallwood Teaser

34: Fatphobia and Moral Feelings feat. Kate Manne

33: The Problem with Empathy feat. Jade E. Davis

32: Thanksgiving Special, Part 2: Murder, Myth, and Memory Teaser

31: Thanksgiving Special, Part 1: The Holiday Syndrome Teaser

UNLOCKED: 14: Standard Edition Volume I Part 1: Freud Goes to Paris

30: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 4: Wilhelm Fliess: The Anxiety of Influence (and a Theory of Noses) feat. Christine Smallwood Teaser

29: Gender, Trauma, and Psychoanalytic Politics feat. Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini

28: Wild Analysis: Halloween (1978) Teaser

27: From HIV to COVID: Virality, Vulnerability, and Interdependence feat. Steven Thrasher

26: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 3: Freud’s Two Dads Teaser

UNLOCKED: 05: Wild Analysis: Mailbag - Dream Interpretation

25: Wild Analysis: Barbie TEASER

24: Drugs and the Death Drive feat. Ben Fong

23: Puns, Jokes, and Serious People feat. Ben Wurgaft

22: Realism and Other Romances feat. Grace Lavery

21: Wild Analysis: The Trauma Plot and the Joss Whedon Extended Cinematic Universe Teaser

20: A Dangerous Method: Sabina Spielrein, Carl Jung, Otto Gross

19: Advice and Anonymity feat. Danny Lavery, Rebecca Ariel Porte, and Kali Handelman: OU + the Podcast for Social Research

18: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 2: Hysteria, Hypnosis, and Imposter Syndrome Teaser

17: Fanon the Clinician feat. Nica Siegel

16: Fantasy, Fascism, and Technology: From the Frankfurt School to Silicon Valley feat. Moira Weigel

15: Diagnosis and Identity: Mailbag Episode!

14: Standard Edition Volume I Part 1: Freud Goes to Paris Teaser

13: The Journalist and the Analyst: On Janet Malcolm feat. Sam Adler-Bell

UNLOCKED: Short Session 1 - Transference, continued

12: From Parties to Projective Identification: Why is Group Life so Hard? feat. Christine Smallwood

11: Succession: Oedipus and Failsons

10: Wild Analysis: Problematic Faves and the Anxiety of Influence Teaser

09: The Pleasure of the Text: The Standard Edition

08: Political Economy, Libidinal Economy

07: Kettle Logic and Family Secrets: The Uncanny, Part II

06: Unheimlich Maneuver: The Uncanny, Part I

03: Bonus Content: Short session I - Transference, continued Teaser

05: Wild Analysis: Mailbag Episode! Teaser

04: Guess Who’s Back, Back Again (It’s Freud) feat. Hannah Zeavin and Alex Colston

02: Transference

01: What is Psychoanalysis?