Ordinary Unhappiness
Episodes
54: Wild Analysis: Challengers Teaser
25 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby, Patrick, and...
53: Broke Psychoanalysis: Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic feat. Kevin Duong
18 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick and Abby welcome politics professor Kevin Duong to discuss his research on the history of the Lafargue Clinic (1946-1958), an experiment in ra...
52: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 9: Repression is a Scorpio: The Final Fliess Extracts feat. Christine Smallwood Teaser
11 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessIn the final insta...
51: Psychoanalysis and Gaza feat. Jess Ghannam
04 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Abby and Patrick welcome Palestinian psychoanalyst and psychologist Dr. Jess Ghannam to talk about his twenty-five years of work doing empirical resea...
50: Political Disappointment feat. Sara Marcus
27 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Abby and Patrick are joined by academic, journalist, and critic Sara Marcus, author of the 2023 book Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from...
49: Wild Analysis: Civil War Teaser
20 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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UNLOCKED: 21: Wild Analysis: The Trauma Plot and the Joss Whedon Extended Cinematic Universe
13 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
48: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 8: Oedipus Approaches: The Fliess Extracts, Continued feat. Christine Smallwood Teaser
06 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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47: Extraction, Exhaustion, and the Problem with Resilience feat. Ajay Singh Chaudhary
30 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Abby and Patrick welcome Ajay Singh Chaudhary, Executive Director of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and author of The Exhausted of the Ear...
Episode 46: Wild Analysis: Dune Teaser
23 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby, Patrick, and...
45: The Fantasy of Family and the Meaning of Family Abolition feat. Sophie Lewis and M.E. O’Brien
16 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Abby and Patrick welcome writer Sophie Lewis and writer and psychotherapist M.E. O’Brien to discuss their recent books on family abolition, Abolish ...
44: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 7: The Prehistoric Other and the Great Lord Penis: The Fliess Extracts, Continued feat. Christine Smallwood Teaser
09 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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43: The Mirror Crack’d: The Mirror Stage, Part III
02 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Abby, Patrick, and Dan conclude their adventure through Lacan’s mirror stage! They reprise Lacan’s parable of the mirror-besotted baby and tie tog...
42: Wild Analysis: The President’s Analyst Teaser
17 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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41: Identification and Misrecognition: The Mirror Stage, Part II
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our journey through Lacan’s “mirror stage” continues as the scene before the mirror unfolds into a tragic drama. Abby, Patrick, and Dan unpack t...
40: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 6: The Symptom is a Compromise: The Fliess Extracts, Continued feat. Christine Smallwood Teaser
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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39: It’s Not You, It’s Lacan: The Mirror Stage, Part I
27 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Abby, Patrick, and Dan kick off their 2024 Lacan era by tackling his single most famous essay and concept: the mirror stage. Because Lacan is notoriou...
38: Wild Analysis: Taylor Swift Teaser
20 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessWe set out to disc...
UNLOCKED: 25: Wild Analysis: Barbie
13 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Abby and Patrick are traveling, so enjoy this unlocked Patreon episode. Support Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon to get access to all the exclusive epi...
37: New Year’s Mailbag: The Capacity for Change Teaser
06 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessWe reflect on an (...
36: Hate, Help, and Housing: Psychoanalysis and Social Work feat. Brian Ngo-Smith
30 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby and Patrick welcome psychoanalyst and clinical social worker Brian Ngo-Smith, President of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinica...
35: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 5: Fragments, Paranoia, and Projection: The Fliess Extracts, Continued feat. Christine Smallwood Teaser
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest installment of the Standard Edition, Abby continues the conversation about the Fliess Extracts section of SE Volume 1 with novelist and ...
34: Fatphobia and Moral Feelings feat. Kate Manne
16 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby and Patrick welcome philosopher Kate Manne, author of Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny (2017), Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women (2020), a...
33: The Problem with Empathy feat. Jade E. Davis
25 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby and Patrick welcome Jade E. Davis, author of the new book The Other Side of Empathy. They discuss Jade’s critique of naïve notions of “empat...
32: Thanksgiving Special, Part 2: Murder, Myth, and Memory Teaser
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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31: Thanksgiving Special, Part 1: The Holiday Syndrome Teaser
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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UNLOCKED: 14: Standard Edition Volume I Part 1: Freud Goes to Paris
11 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friends! This week we are on deadline and/or under a terrifying pile of ungraded papers, so we're giving folks a chance to enter the wild world o...
30: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 4: Wilhelm Fliess: The Anxiety of Influence (and a Theory of Noses) feat. Christine Smallwood Teaser
04 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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29: Gender, Trauma, and Psychoanalytic Politics feat. Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini
28 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby and Patrick welcome psychoanalyst Avgi Saketopoulou and psychoanalyst and academic Ann Pellegrini to discuss their new co-authored book, Gender W...
28: Wild Analysis: Halloween (1978) Teaser
21 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAfter a long chat ...
27: From HIV to COVID: Virality, Vulnerability, and Interdependence feat. Steven Thrasher
14 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby and Patrick welcome Steven Thrasher, author of The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide. We discuss Steven’s si...
26: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 3: Freud’s Two Dads Teaser
07 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessThe Standard Editi...
UNLOCKED: 05: Wild Analysis: Mailbag - Dream Interpretation
30 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Unlocked Patreon episode. Support Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon to get access to all the exclusive episodes. patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby and...
25: Wild Analysis: Barbie TEASER
23 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessWe talk about one ...
24: Drugs and the Death Drive feat. Ben Fong
16 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby and Patrick welcome academic and writer Ben Fong, author of the new book Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge...
23: Puns, Jokes, and Serious People feat. Ben Wurgaft
09 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby and Patrick welcome intellectual historian, writer, editor, and noted wordsmith Ben Wurgaft. They talk about Ben’s experiences with long-term a...
22: Realism and Other Romances feat. Grace Lavery
02 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby and Patrick welcome writer and academic Grace Lavery to discuss her new book Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans...
21: Wild Analysis: The Trauma Plot and the Joss Whedon Extended Cinematic Universe Teaser
26 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessBehind the safety ...
20: A Dangerous Method: Sabina Spielrein, Carl Jung, Otto Gross
12 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby, Patrick, and Dan watch David Cronenberg’s 2011 film A Dangerous Method, which dramatizes the complex relationships between Sigmund Freud, Carl...
19: Advice and Anonymity feat. Danny Lavery, Rebecca Ariel Porte, and Kali Handelman: OU + the Podcast for Social Research
05 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ordinary Unhappiness presents a live recording of the Podcast for Social Research! Abby recently joined Danny Lavery, Rebecca Ariel Porte, and Kali Ha...
18: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 2: Hysteria, Hypnosis, and Imposter Syndrome Teaser
29 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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17: Fanon the Clinician feat. Nica Siegel
22 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby and Patrick welcome political theorist Nica Siegel, author of a forthcoming manuscript on the politics of exhaustion, including a recently publis...
16: Fantasy, Fascism, and Technology: From the Frankfurt School to Silicon Valley feat. Moira Weigel
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby, Patrick, and Dan welcome writer, critic, and scholar Moira Weigel, co-founder of Logic magazine and co-editor with Ben Tarnoff of Voices of the ...
15: Diagnosis and Identity: Mailbag Episode!
08 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby, Patrick, and Dan take your calls! They spend the bulk of the episode on a fascinating question about whether or not it is important to know your...
14: Standard Edition Volume I Part 1: Freud Goes to Paris Teaser
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessIn this second epi...
13: The Journalist and the Analyst: On Janet Malcolm feat. Sam Adler-Bell
24 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby and Patrick welcome journalist and critic Sam Adler-Bell, co-host of Dissent magazine’s Know Your Enemy podcast. They talk about how Sam came t...
UNLOCKED: Short Session 1 - Transference, continued
17 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Unlocked Patreon episode. Support Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon to get access to all the exclusive episodes.Continuing the conversation on transfere...
12: From Parties to Projective Identification: Why is Group Life so Hard? feat. Christine Smallwood
10 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby and Patrick welcome novelist and literary critic Christine Smallwood, author of The Life of the Mind. They discuss the novel’s protagonist Doro...
11: Succession: Oedipus and Failsons
03 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby, Patrick, and Dan get into the great Oedipal drama of our times: Succession. They discuss a ludicrously capacious number of versions of the Oedip...
10: Wild Analysis: Problematic Faves and the Anxiety of Influence Teaser
27 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The three of us talk problematic faves, guilty pleasures, comfort food (literal and metaphorical), and the dangers of nostalgia. We focus on thinkers ...
09: The Pleasure of the Text: The Standard Edition
20 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby and Patrick introduce a new series: the Standard Edition. That’s right; they’re going to read and discuss the entire Standard Edition of the ...
08: Political Economy, Libidinal Economy
13 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby puts Patrick on the hot seat to talk psychoanalysis and politics. They discuss how psychoanalytic concepts can help bypass partisan political exp...
07: Kettle Logic and Family Secrets: The Uncanny, Part II
06 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby and Patrick return to Freud’s idea of the “uncanny” as an unconventional path to their real target: the unconscious. They talk about the li...
06: Unheimlich Maneuver: The Uncanny, Part I
29 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby, Patrick, and Dan sneak up on the idea of the unconscious by tackling Freud’s concept of the “uncanny,” and its relationship to anxiety, fe...
03: Bonus Content: Short session I - Transference, continued Teaser
23 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing the conversation on transference started in Episode 2, Patrick and Dan discuss free guitars, transference as defense, magical thinking, and...
05: Wild Analysis: Mailbag Episode! Teaser
23 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We take your calls and talk about dream interpretation, professional ethics, and visions of therapy for the world we live in versus the world we want ...
04: Guess Who’s Back, Back Again (It’s Freud) feat. Hannah Zeavin and Alex Colston
15 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby and Patrick welcome Hannah Zeavin and Alex Colston, founders of the Psychosocial Foundation and Parapraxis magazine. The four discuss their paths...
02: Transference
08 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby, Patrick, and Dan talk about transference in Freud’s essays on analytic technique and at your local bar; what resistance is and how it manifest...
01: What is Psychoanalysis?
01 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby and Patrick talk about the position of “the subject-supposed-to-know” and how they anxiously inhabit it; Anna O., the “talking cure” and ...