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
- 54 minutes
- Episodes
- 124
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
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…
77: Gerontophallocracy 2024: Post-Election Processing Teaser
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Abby, Patrick, and Dan sit down for an immediate post-election proc…
76: Gerontophallocracy 2024: Floating Signifiers Teaser
It’s the last installment of Gerontophallocracy 2024 before the election. Abby, Patrick, and Dan process the vibes both in The Discourse and here in Pennsylvania (chaotic and bad); reflect on Harris …
75: Psychosocial Realism feat. Daniel Lavery
Abby and Patrick welcome writer Daniel Lavery to talk about his superb new book Women’s Hotel. Lavery’s novel conjures a now-vanished institution (low cost, long term residential communities for work…
74: The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, Part II Teaser
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Abby, Patrick, and Dan continue their watch-through of Zizek’s “The…
73: Romance Was Never Real: From Courtly Love to the Rise of the Fuckboy feat. Sabrina Strings
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. T…
72: Track Changes feat. Lisa Borst and Mark Krotov of n+1
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 In…
71: Gerontophallocracy 2024: Proxy Battles Teaser
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Abby, Patrick, and Dan reflect on the debate between J.D. Vance and…
70: Wild Analysis: Heathers Teaser
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Abby, Patrick, and Dan discuss the cult classic “Heathers” (Michael…
UNLOCKED: 38: Wild Analysis: Taylor Swift
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We set out to discuss the Eras tour film but got drawn in…
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. Th…
68: Gerontophallocracy 2024: The September Debate: Domination and Other Pleasures Teaser
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Abby, Patrick, and Dan process last night’s Trump-Harris debate. Th…
67: Gerontophallocracy 2024: Lethal Mothers and Try-Hard Sons feat. Sam Adler-Bell Teaser
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Abby and Patrick are joined by friend of the show and returning gue…
66: Teens, Cops, and Spies: The Varieties of Hysterical Experience feat. Dan Taberski
Abby and Patrick welcome Dan Taberski, creator of the brand-new podcast series Hysterical. They explore the genesis of the series and the challenges and rewards of confronting both the history and th…
65: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 11: The Project for a Scientific Psychology Part 2 Teaser
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Abby, Patrick, and Dan continue their journey through the Project f…
64: Grief, Loss, and Love feat. Sarah Jaffe
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 Revolu…
63: The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, Part I Teaser
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Abby and Dan get into the first part of Slavoj Zizek’s The Pervert’…
62: Lacan and Psychosis in the City feat. Loren Dent
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 encoun…
61: Gerontophallocracy 2024: Reality Testing and Temporal Distortion (It’s So Joever) Teaser
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Abby and Patrick power through COVID brain fog to process Sunday’s …
60: Love and Work feat. Joseph Earl Thomas
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 Nort…