"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Philosophers—the most relentlessly disputatious people alive—in complete agreement for once.

listening to @unhappinesspod.bsky.social episode on projective identification and wow it is making me miss group process part of cpe….I need to be in a Group again…..

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 How does projective identification work in groups? We talk group dynamics from marriage to classrooms to corporations to American mass incarceration and beyond. It's Part II of our Projective Identification series with Brian Ngo-Smith! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

listened to a podcast recently where they said in the first episode that their fundamental rule would be to never pretend they had read something they had not read. i think this would be a good rule for posters as well

last day for 20% off annual memberships at all tiers!

Finished the year answering listener questions with Sam at Red Medicine for the Anti-Self-Helpline red-medicine.simplecast.com/episodes/ant...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We're joined by the great Brian Ngo-Smith for a conversation about one of the most difficult but powerful concepts in psychoanalysis: projective identification. We go from development to pathology, from Freud to Klein to Bion, and more! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

think this is the most fun I've ever had recording an @unhappinesspod.bsky.social ngl

Friends! Here's an update from @counterfactual.bsky.social with news about our brand new, limited-time-only Higher Ed Death Spiral Membership Drive. Note: the Death Spiral is ongoing, but our Membership Drive only lasts until 12/31/25!

An excellent podcast overall

🚨NEW MAILBAG🚨 We field listener questions about psychoanalysis and Buddhism; Melanie Klein; what a "master signifier" is and whether the Left needs one; the discourse about limerence and "person addiction"; precarity, education, and much, much more www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

Feeling really grateful to see THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US on this NYT list of the books readers were most excited about this year. Thank you to everyone who's been reading and sharing it.

a subscription to McMansion Hell is literally a dollar a month and in exchange you get some of my best and most thorough essays (the regional car dealership rococo one, the one about gray floors, this one)

I'll also add that Abby, Patrick, and Dan come across as some of the kindest and most compassionate people with regard to the human condition, which is a truly beautiful thing.

I absolutely second this! I'm hopelessly addicted to this podcast. I've stopped walking in the middle of the sidewalk over so many things I've heard on here. One "holy shit" moment after another....

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I cannot recommend this podcast highly enough. If you are struggling to understand this world or yourself or how to live with being yourself in this world, subscribe! Abby, Pat and Dan are wonderful teachers who welcome listeners into a complicated theoretical world without condescension. The best!

I can confidently say that the best $5 a month I spend on myself is for the Ordinary Unhappiness patreon. It's a podcast about psychoanalysis and politics/culture with warm and fascinating hosts, and brilliant guests. They're doing 20% off their annual membership and I promise it's worth every penny

just resubscribed it's so good membership drive! 20% annual memberships

Ordinary Unhappiness is the rare podcast that manages to be both intellectually challenging and laugh-out-loud funny. A true gem worth listening to, supporting, and sharing

Calling all Freudians, Lacanians, Kleinians, etc. Check out @unhappinesspod.bsky.social, now in their higher education death spiral campaign. Support their amazing work if you can! ordinaryunhappiness.com/login?ru=%2F...

sidenote: if you are a person who has ever had anything that a 19th century man with a beard and a cigar would describe as "hysterical symptoms" you WILL listen to some of the Standard Edition episodes and go sit and stare at the wall for a few hours. but, like. in a good, useful, productive way

i would have never explored Freud's case studies without being an OU member. it's a cliche but i honestly do feel enriched -- i know so much more about Freud (in all his complexity), his colleagues, the history of psychology, 19th century European society, and myself. cannot recommend highly enough

My friends at @unhappinesspod.bsky.social are doing a membership drive - 20% off (of your cost, of your symptoms) annual memberships. Psychoanalysis, culture, politics, and of course charming personalities. What more could you want?

This is a fantastic, vital podcast. Help keep it going!

tu tremblerais bien davantage si tu savais où je vais te mener!

I'm sure it's a sophisticated psychoanalytic joke that one of the membership tier benefits that @unhappinesspod.bsky.social offers is "we'll follow you on instagram" but fortunately it's also amusing for the unsophisticated likes of me

Friends! Here's an update from @counterfactual.bsky.social with news about our brand new, limited-time-only Higher Ed Death Spiral Membership Drive. Note: the Death Spiral is ongoing, but our Membership Drive only lasts until 12/31/25!

Abby, Patrick, and Dan of @unhappinesspod.bsky.social are some of the most intellectually generous people I know—models of public scholarship and community building that I strive to emulate. They’re also just delightful to listen to. Consider subscribing: ordinaryunhappiness.com?utm_campaign...

markets are efficient and the best way to get people what they want. in fact, the only reason you can't get RAM, Quaaludes, or a living wage is because of a guy we in the Economics profession call "the Grinch"

No more excuses for not having read *the* book of the year on the working poor & homelessness. A book that fundamentally challenges the conventional definition of "homeless," one that shines a light on exploitation & profitmaking out of all of this and does so through powerful, personal stories.

I've had "I should start listening to Ordinary Unhappiness, this seems like my jam" on my list for a while now; this got me to download immediately, awesome topics.

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 We're joined by the brilliant @emotrophywife.bsky.social, author of the superb novel Herculine! We talk utopian desire, separatist politics, the challenges of solidarity, pacts with demons (literal and otherwise), and much, much more! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

If cost has kept you from picking up There Is No Place for Us (which is totally understandable), good news: the ebook is *$1.99* today—93% off!—on Kindle, B&N, Bookshop, and elsewhere. So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.

in the latest @unhappinesspod.bsky.social we opened a mailbag of (delightful) questions from our (amazing) listeners! also I made the case for why the Singularity/AGI will only happen if we torture AI into an awareness wherein it yearns for death and/or vows to kill us all

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 How can psychoanalytic concepts help us in our everyday lives? What fantasies drive people to seek advice from chatbots? And what's the libidinal economy of Hallmark Christmas movies? All this and more in our latest mailbag ep! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

much has been made of the little puns with which Lacan disrupted the intense atmosphere of seriousness within his lecture hall, the so-called "non du pere" of the "nom du pere," but less has been said about his snacks, the "nom nom nom du pere" sound Lacan would make as he smacked his chops-

The new @unhappinesspod.bsky.social with @sexbeyondbinaries.bsky.social is a good one. www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

Absolutely stunned and honored to see THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US on this list. I'm grateful beyond words to the five families who trusted me with their stories and allowed me to witness their struggle to secure a home.

Thanks so much for sharing this. That @unhappinesspod.bsky.social conversation was one I really cherished.

Heard @brian-goldstone.bsky.social on @unhappinesspod.bsky.social a few months ago and this stat has been on my mind since. It is not possible for min wage workers to work their way into housing in the rich rich USA Great if enraging and disturbing episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We're joined by brilliant therapist and sex educator Lucie Fielding (@sexbeyondbinaries.bsky.social)! We talk the new edition of her book Trans Sex, tackle Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, polymorphous perversity, pleasure, and more! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

if you need to get some kind of psychic handle on your upcoming Thanksgiving experience, or at least want material to wield as either shield or weapon against your family, @unhappinesspod.bsky.social is here for you

🚨UNLOCKED🚨 Upcoming holidays filling you with dread? Need something to listen to while traveling, or while staying home? We've got you covered: BOTH parts of our classic Thanksgiving Special are now unlocked! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis... www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

Browsing the back catalog of Ordinary Unhappiness, I found this goddamn delight, a conversation with @samadlerbell.bsky.social on Janet Malcolm: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o.... Thank you! @counterfactual.bsky.social & @patblanchfield.bsky.social

very excited to dig into this after listening to a wonderful @unhappinesspod.bsky.social episode with the authors