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