🚨 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!

The crossover event you didn’t know you wanted.

🚨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...

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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨What does “fashion” mean, and why are so many psychoanalysts and cultural gatekeepers resistant to thinking about it critically? we're joined by the great Valerie Steele, historian and chief curator at the Museum at FIT! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨From the runway to our closets to our dreams, from Freud's tailor to Lacan's shirts, and beyond, we talk fashion and psychoanalysis with Valerie Steele, historian and curator of Dress, Dreams, and Desire, a new exhibit @museumatFIT! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

I really am looking forward to listening to this because Valerie Steele is always interesting, and her writing on fashion and art is thought-provoking and very worthwhile

I learned so much - and had some NGL personal breakthroughs - in our @unhappinesspod.bsky.social interview with Museum at FIT chief curator and historian of fashion Valerie Steele. no matter what you do (or don't) think about clothes definitely check this one out! 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...

Fashion and Freud? A new exhibit at The Museum at FIT in New York City explores fashion through the lens of psychoanalysis.

Been thinking with this episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social w/ Patrick Blanchfield recently. Came out a bit over 9 months ago, but worth revisiting given the current political environment and recent events. thedigradio.com/podcast/assa...

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...

loved this ep and found it very moving; also nothing could have prepared me for how Abby says “Australia”

I’m so grateful to Josh for being so clarifying, astute, concrete, and downright humane in this conversation - first thing in his AM and on the opposite side of the planet, no less. definitely check this one out

🚨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...

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

🚨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...

why aren't there more revolutions? how do societies metabolize mass death? what identifications, desires and fears shape group cohesion? and what's a "libidinal economy" anyway? enrollment for my October Psychoanalysis and Politics course is live! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

We're on vacation this week but back soon with episodes on psychedelic psychotherapy, the next installment of the Standard Edition, and much more!

🚨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...

Kettle logic! cc @unhappinesspod.bsky.social

New @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social ! We’re joined by friend of the pod @patblanchfield.bsky.social of the brilliant @unhappinesspod.bsky.social to talk all things Jeffrey Epstein and pedophilia in the conservative imagination. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

🚨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...

While I was listening to this fascinating @unhappin exploration of Kriteva’s notion of abjection, the person two seats from me on the plane vomitted all over herself (amid some turbulence) as if to illustrate the concept. Uncanny!

also I'm returning again to our @unhappinesspod.bsky.social interview with the brilliant Liz Franczak on the history of the term "conspiracy theory" and the work done by labelling someone a feverish, duped, etc "conspiracy theorist" ordinaryunhappiness.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

returning to this from me from early 2019, well before epstein met his, uh. demise, about how the secret horrible truth of things is that the horror has always been entirely out in the wide open all along therevealer.org/suffer-the-c...

Been looking forward to this episode

🚨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...

In another key point in my "BLOOD MERIDIAN is the Great American Novel" argument is how much of the current moment can be summed up by: The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos. That would be a hell of a zoo. The judge smiled. Yes, he said. Even so.

🚨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...

it was such an honor, so clarifying, and deeply moving to talk with @brian-goldstone.bsky.social on @unhappinesspod.bsky.social about his essential book, "There Is No Place for Us" 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.

This is very long but absolutely essential listening, and riveting.

Love to see a psychoanalytic podcast discuss concrete issues like homelessness. Well done!

🚨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...

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!

🚨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...

a good day to revisit this one www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

a good day to revisit this one www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

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...