Ordinary Unhappiness
A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now, featuring Abby Kluchin & Patrick Blanchfield
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 123
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
UNLOCKED: 42: Wild Analysis: The President’s Analyst
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In a perfect pairing with our ongoing series on Lacan, we…
94: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 1: Pearls of Suffering: Studies on Hysteria, Part I Teaser
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Abby and Patrick begin the Standard Edition Volume II. Their first …
93: On Emma Jung feat. Ann Conrad Lammers
Abby and Patrick welcome Ann Conrad Lammers, a Jungian psychotherapist and the primary editor and assistant translator of Dedicated to the Soul: The Writings and Drawings of Emma Jung, a brand-new vo…
92: Gerontophallocracy 2025: The Primitive Accumulation Monster Dad at the End of History Teaser
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For the first time since the inauguration, our series metabolizing …
91: Feminism, Antagonism, and Solidarity feat. Sophie Lewis
Abby and Patrick welcome author Sophie Lewis to discuss her latest book, Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation. Together, they explore the history of a variety of fem…
90: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 12: The Project for a Scientific Psychology Part 3 Teaser
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Abby, Patrick, and Dan close out The Project for a Scientific Psych…
89: Breath, Vulnerability, and Interdependence feat. Jamieson Webster
Abby and Patrick welcome psychoanalyst and author Jamieson Webster to discuss her brand-new book, On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe, out in March 2025 from Catapult. It’s a wide-ranging con…
88: On Hate and Aggression, Part IV Teaser
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Abby, Patrick, and Dan put Winnicott’s ideas about hate and aggress…
Episode 87: On Hate and Aggression, Part III
Abby, Patrick, and Dan conclude their close reading of Winnicott’s “Hate in the Counter-Transference,” unpacking and tying together its three biggest arguments. First, there’s the connection Winnicot…
86: On Hate and Aggression, Part II Teaser
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Abby, Patrick, and Dan start close-reading Winnicott’s famous paper…
85: On Hate and Aggression, Part I
Abby, Patrick, and Dan take up a topic that couldn’t be more relevant to the contemporary zeitgeist – aggression – as theorized by an unlikely source: the British analyst and pediatrician D.W. Winnic…
84: New Year Vibe Check: I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On
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Abby, Patrick, and Dan get together for a looking-forward, looking-…
83: Religion and Neurosis feat. Nathan Rein Teaser
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Abby and Patrick sit down with religious studies scholar and Reform…
82: Effing the Ineffable feat. Simon Critchley
Abby and Patrick are joined by philosopher Simon Critchley to discuss his new book, On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy. They discuss how, for Critchley, mysticism represents "a way of thinking a…
81: Mailbag Part II: Readings and Misreadings Teaser
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Abby, Patrick, and Dan shake off the Holiday Syndrome torpor to con…
80: On Fantasy feat. Jordan Stein
Abby and Patrick welcome writer and scholar Jordan Stein to tackle a fundamental psychoanalytic concept that’s also a fundamentally slippery one: fantasy. What, exactly, are these things we call “fan…
UNLOCKED: 31: Thanksgiving Special, Part 1: The Holiday Syndrome
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In the first installment of our two-part Thanksgiving Spe…
79: Mailbag Episode: Resistances (Part One) Teaser
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Abby, Patrick, and Dan respond to your questions! They talk teachin…
78: Reactionary Fantasies: On “Cancel Culture” and Moral Panic feat. Adrian Daub
Abby and Patrick welcome academic, writer, and In Bed With the Right podcast co-host Adrian Daub to discuss his new book, The Cancel Culture Panic: How An American Obsession Went Global. Daub’s book …
UNLOCKED: 49: Wild Analysis: Civil War
We're off this weekend, but here's a thematically appropriate episode from earlier this year. Come find us on Patreon for our recent political coverage, The Standard Edition series, and more Wild Ana…