This episode is from earlier this year - but it feels only more salient now. And if you want more @unhappinesspod.bsky.social content, including tons of exclusive episodes, please consider subscribing to us on Patreon! It's how we stay always and forever ad-free! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

🚨UNLOCKED🚨 We unpack Julia Kristeva's concept of "abjection" and "the abject." It's a powerful idea that clarifies real bodily experiences, raw affects, and urgent political concerns involving violence, vulnerability, scapegoating, and disgust. www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

mostly I think people should subscribe to @unhappinesspod.bsky.social which is ad free for all forever, anti AI to the end, and even has done some cronenberg content! I do love Bella tho

🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨 The incomparable @lilyscherlis.bsky.social joins @counterfactual.bsky.social and Dan to discuss her experience at the 2024 Tavistock conference, the meaning of “group relations" in general and for leftists in particular, the legacies of WR Bion, and much more!

🚨NEW BONUS EPISODE🚨 Our own @patblanchfield.bsky.social joins the great Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell of the Know Your Enemy podcast to talk Charlie Kirk, martyrdom, mourning, memory, and the psychic and political landscape of our moment. www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

Fashion isn’t fluff but a psychic and political engine. This conversation tracks how Freud fretted over his barber and tailor, while Lacan’s gaze and Anzieu’s skin‑ego live in clothes as armor and second skin. With Valerie Steele on @unhappinesspod.bsky.social

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We're joined by writer Michael Clune, author of the new novel, Pan! It's a tour de force tale of growing up, friendship, coolness, drugs, unfolding on the boundaries between the normal upheavals of adolescence and acute pathology. www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

🚨NEW STANDARD EDITION🚨 Freud goes on an alpine holiday - but altitude is no barrier to psychic distress. Joins us for the story of Katharina, the shortest, strangest, and saddest of the Studies on Hysteria. www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 From protective armor to revealing display, from the mirror stage to the skin ego, and from runways to our dreams, in what ways do we all use clothes, like it or not, to literally fashion ourselves? www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

we're at the fashion show we're at the psychoanalysis show we're at the joint fashion and psychoanalysis show this amazing exhibit at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology opens tomorrow; our interview with MFIT Director and Chief Curator Valerie Steele drops this Saturday!

🚨NEW WILD ANALYSIS🚨 We finish "The Pervert's Guide to Cinema"! It's a Lynchian carnivalesque of lack, desire, and the mystery of what Zizek means, precisely, by all the "precisely"-s. www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 From preparation to dose day to integration, Dr. Josh West shares the details of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy clinical trials in Australia. Plus: the history of psychedelic research, legacies of appropriation, and the ethics of care www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

🚨NEW STANDARD EDITION🚨 It's the case of Lucy R, an English governess plagued by unrequited love and haunted by phantom smells. And it's the story of Freud confronting something radical about memory, narrative, time, and the process of cure. Check it out! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

we're doing a Back to School membership special! check it out! www.patreon.com/posts/back-t...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We mark the demise of "And Just Like That..." by giving it, and "Sex and the City," a psychoanalytic send-off. From ambivalence to desire to neurosis to the meanings of clothes and the psychic stakes of fashion, we go all in! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

🚨NEW BONUS EPISODE🚨 @patblanchfield.bsky.social goes on @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social to talk Epstein: what we know, what we don’t, what we’ll never, what we always did, and what all these contortions of knowledge, secrecy, anticipation, and obviousness might mean www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 What do people mean by 'somatics,' and what does that have to do with politics? We're joined by Sumitra Rajkumar of @actionlabny.bsky.social to talk the body, the forces that shape it, therapeutic practice, organizing, and collective transformation www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

🚨 NEW STANDARD EDITION EPISODE🚨 Abby and Patrick read the case of "Frau Emmy von N" AKA "the one where Freud learns to listen." Then they go behind the pseudonym for the real Fanny Moser's tale of wealth, scandal, and maybe even True Crime! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We unpack Julia Kristeva's concept of "abjection" and "the abject." It's a powerful idea that clarifies real bodily experiences, raw affects, and urgent political concerns, from the hatred of vulnerability to Alligator Alcatraz and beyond. www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We're joined by the brilliant novelist and poet Hilary Plum, author of the new book "State Champ." We talk the politics of abortion, the meanings and motivations of protest, running, eating disorders, and much more. CC @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

Dear Listeners: For reasons of both health and travel, this summer we’re on a three episode/month schedule - two for Patreon supporters, one public. If you don’t yet subscribe but are still hungry for more OU, check out our extensive back catalog at patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha... !

🚨NEW STANDARD EDITION🚨 Who was the real Anna O? We dive into the story of Bertha Pappenheim, the German-Jewish feminist, pioneering social worker, withering author, polyglot translator, dogged anti-Zionist activist, and all-around remarkable human being www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

Amid the horrors of American life right now, this conversation—about housing, homelessness, and the pernicious myths surrounding both—was a true gift. Grateful to the brilliant @patblanchfield.bsky.social and @counterfactual.bsky.social for engaging my book with such depth, clarity, and care.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We talked with @brian-goldstone.bsky.social, author of the phenomenal There is No Place for Us, about the forces pushing ever-more Americans into homelessness and how media and popular narratives about "mental health" mystify the core problem: housing www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We spoke with the great Sarah Miller about climate grief, her experience of ayahuasca therapy in the Peruvian Amazon, our expectations for psychedelics, our fantasies of transformative experiences, and what we can learn from plants! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

I absolutely loved Sarah Miller's "Pirates of the Ayahuasca" in @nplusonemag.com and it was a blast to talk with her about it, climate grief, our fantasies about psychedelics, and so much more in the latest @unhappinesspod.bsky.social!

we're off this weekend because @patblanchfield.bsky.social has pneumonia but returning with back-to-back bangers for the next two weeks: Sarah Miller on psychedelics and then @brian-goldstone.bsky.social on homelessness. but if you need a fix in the meantime, this ep only gets more germane...

I'm still buzzing from our @unhappinesspod.bsky.social conversation with @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social about reparations, climate justice, social contract narratives as fantasies, and so much more. definitely check this one out folks www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨We spoke with the brilliant @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social about reparations and climate justice; states, social contracts, and other fantasies of liberalism (especially Rawls); the weight of history and the limits of identification; solidarity, hope, and more!

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 It's Part II of our Mailbag Spectacular! We talk fantasies and seductions of "AI"; Trauma Studies; the pain of reading, learning, and existing with Other Minds; psychoanalysis in the classroom; gaming, t̵u̵r̵t̵l̵e̵s̵ tortoises, and much, much more!

it's the 100th episode of @unhappinesspod.bsky.social! we took listener questions, and they, like our listeners, were wonderful. enjoy! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We mark one hundred (!) episodes of Ordinary Unhappiness with some personal reflections followed by a mailbag that raises the eternal question: What Do Listeners Want? Spoiler: it's Lacan, Marxism, and drugs (plus other things) 🥳🎂 🎉 www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

🚨 NEW WILD ANALYSIS 🚨 We're joined by the great Sam Adler-Bell to talk The White Lotus: Season 3. Come for the taboo plotlines of incest and family annihilation; stay for the thorny questions about what the show's popularity means as a social symptom! bit.ly/4iKqr88

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We spoke with the brilliant @lilyscherlis.bsky.social about the history, context, ideologies, diagnostic utility, and everyday functions of the biggest pop psychology concepts of our era, from "boundaries" to "soft skills" to "attachment" and beyond! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

still buzzing from our @unhappinesspod.bsky.social conversation with the great Lily Scherlis about the origins, ideologies, and trajectories of our era's most prominent therapeutic methodologies and pop psychology buzzwords definitely check this one out! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

🚨NEW STANDARD EDITION🚨 How did the young hysteric "Anna O." invent "the talking cure"? What were her symptoms, what distresses provoked them, and what did the naughtiness of a "horrid dog" have to do with any of it? We tackle this famous early case! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨We're joined by the brilliant Hannah Zeavin of @parapraxismag.bsky.social to talk about her brand-new book, "Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the 20th Century."! CC @mitpress.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

Abby and Patrick from Ordinary Unhappiness join the podcast to discuss D. W. Winnicott, one of the most influential figures in the history of psychoanalysis EPISODE 77: D. W. Winnicott w/ Abby Kluchin and Patrick Blanchfield LINK BELOW! @patblanchfield.bsky.social @counterfactual.bsky.social

it was awesome to go on the Red Medicine podcast @redmedicine.bsky.social together with @counterfactual.bsky.social to talk Winnicott, hatred, how care gets gendered, the affective lives of institutions, the welfare state, the cruelties of neoliberalism, and so much more! linktr.ee/redmedicine....

revisiting this today; IMHO it's aged well even if I haven't www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

🚨NEW WILD ANALYSIS🚨 By popular demand: it's a Severance episode! What does work under capitalism do to us as individuals, as co-workers, and as political subjects? We talk repression, the division of labor, alienation, and much, much more! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

New online: @patblanchfield.bsky.social on the Signal chat and the bipartisan war crime consensus. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

some delightful news: I'm a columnist at @nplusonemag.com! just when I thought I was out, Trump dragged me back in. here's the column debut, about the unspoken yet obvious fact at the center of those Signal chats, and at the core of where we are now

Ecstatic about @patblanchfield.bsky.social's new column at @nplusonemag.com, which begins, as it must, with the Signal chat, NatSec psychopaths old and new, and the imperial violence (barely) in the background. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

what is repression and what does it do? why does patriarchal piety also always involve transgression? how do identification, desire, and hatred work to bind and destroy social groups? my Late Freud course starts in April, still got a few spots left! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

🚨NEW STANDARD EDITION🚨 We begin the Studies on Hysteria (1895)! How do symptoms originate, and what do they mean? How are injuries to the psyche different from wounds to the body? What is the value of catharsis, and can language heal? All this - and more!

Here's a letter you can sign to oppose the denial of tenure, already signed by some of the writers, thinkers, professors and activists I respect the most in the world forms.gle/Rn9Rmq5fQUhq...

Just heard @patblanchfield.bsky.social on @unhappinesspod.bsky.social use the phrase "through a K-Hole darkly" and bravo sir.

🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨 We talked to Ann Conrad Lammers, Jungian psychotherapist and editor of a new volume from @princetonupress.bsky.social, about the life and work of Emma Jung, betrayals, boundaries, creativity, and much more! www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

🚨NEW @unhappinesspod.bsky.social EPISODE 🚨 What's this asshole's deal - and more importantly, why him, and why now? Much requested and long in prep, here's our consideration of Elon Musk as a symptom of all-too-familiar political economic and libidinal economic conditions.