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
58: Wild Analysis: The Idea of You feat. Anna Shechtman Teaser
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Abby, Patrick, and Dan are joined by writer, academic, and cruciver…
57: “Do More Crosswords!” The Sexual Politics of Language feat. Anna Shechtman
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…
56: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 10: The Project for a Scientific Psychology Part 1 Teaser
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Abby, Patrick, and Dan turn to one of Freud’s earliest and stranges…
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 princ…
54: Wild Analysis: Challengers Teaser
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Abby, Patrick, and Dan sit down for a postgame analysis of Luca Gua…
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…
52: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 9: Repression is a Scorpio: The Final Fliess Extracts feat. Christine Smallwood Teaser
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In the final installment of the Fliess Extracts portion of the Stan…
51: Psychoanalysis and Gaza feat. Jess Ghannam
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…
50: Political Disappointment feat. Sara Marcus
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 recalli…
49: Wild Analysis: Civil War Teaser
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While Abby’s voice is still gone, Dan and Patrick take in a film on…
UNLOCKED: 21: Wild Analysis: The Trauma Plot and the Joss Whedon Extended Cinematic Universe
Abby lost her voice, so we're unlocking a favorite from behind the paywall! We'll be back next week with more Wild Analysis followed by an interview with the brilliant Sara Marcus on her book Politic…
48: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 8: Oedipus Approaches: The Fliess Extracts, Continued feat. Christine Smallwood Teaser
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In the latest installment of the Standard Edition – and our penulti…
47: Extraction, Exhaustion, and the Problem with Resilience feat. Ajay Singh Chaudhary
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 conversat…
Episode 46: Wild Analysis: Dune Teaser
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Abby, Patrick, and Dan take on Denis Villeneuve’s Dune Parts 1 and …
45: The Fantasy of Family and the Meaning of Family Abolition feat. Sophie Lewis and M.E. O’Brien
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…
44: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 7: The Prehistoric Other and the Great Lord Penis: The Fliess Extracts, Continued feat. Christine Smallwood Teaser
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In the latest installment of the Standard Edition, we discuss a num…
43: The Mirror Crack’d: The Mirror Stage, Part III
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 p…
42: Wild Analysis: The President’s Analyst Teaser
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In a perfect pairing with our ongoing series on Lacan, we come in f…
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 Lacan…
40: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 6: The Symptom is a Compromise: The Fliess Extracts, Continued feat. Christine Smallwood Teaser
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In the latest installment of the Standard Edition, we valiantly sol…