Ordinary Unhappiness

13: The Journalist and the Analyst: On Janet Malcolm feat. Sam Adler-Bell Podcast Episode · Ordinary Unhappiness · 06/24/2023 · 1h 49m

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

cover image of The Lacanian Teacher: Education, Pedagogy, and Enjoyment by Nick Stock and Nick Peim

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

we're continuing my favorite of Freud's Case Studies over at
@unhappinesspod.bsky.social. it's been a delightful time - check it out!

122: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 8: Studies on Hysteria, Part VIII: The Blow That Falls: Fräulein Elisabeth von R Continued Teaser - Ordinary Unhappiness Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby and Patrick resume Freud’s case history of Elisabeth von R. The...

🚨NEW STANDARD EDITION🚨 We continue the case of Elisabeth von R, talking family dynamics, short-circuits of care, parentification, tragic losses, gendered social roles, and more. Plus: what does it mean for a psychic "blow to fall"?

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It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning.

The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.

UNLOCKED: 103: Ayahuasca and Climate Grief feat. Sarah Miller - Ordinary Unhappiness Unlocked Patreon episode. Support Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon to get access to all the exclusive episodes. patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby and Patrick are joined by one of their favorite write...

🚨UNLOCKED🚨 We spoke with the great
@sarahlovescali.bsky.social 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!

we could've spent another two hours on this - easy. karlin was so brilliant and generous, and we went in so many directions. @counterfactual.bsky.social and I have been talking about this @unhappinesspod.bsky.social conversation nonstop since bsky.app/profile/unha...

121: LSD: Subjectivity, Ineffability, and Mental Health feat. Dan Karlin - Ordinary Unhappiness Abby and Patrick continue their series on psychedelics via an in-depth interview with Dr. Dan Karlin. Karlin is a psychiatrist and Chief Medical Officer at MindMed, where he oversees clinical trials u...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 How do perception and language shape subjectivity? What makes an experience ineffable? And can LSD offer new prospects for treating MDD and GAD? We're joined by @dankarlin.com of MindMed to talk new research trials, neurobiology, and more! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

120: Wild Analysis: The Substance Teaser - Ordinary Unhappiness Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby and Dan process Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (2024), starrin...

🚨NEW WILD ANALYSIS🚨 Abby (@counterfactual.bsky.social) and Dan watch "The Substance "(2024). From sexual difference to gendered expectations, from the male gaze to femininity as self-surveillance, it's a psychoanalytic body horror Halloween spectacular! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

people keep asking for more Lacan, and so it was a double (triple?) pleasure to be able to deliver via this excellent
@unhappinesspod.bsky.social conversation with the great Nick Peim and Nick Stock (@89stock.bsky.social). as Lacan commanded: Enjoy!

119: Lacan, Knowledge, Fantasy feat. Nick Stock and Nick Peim - Ordinary Unhappiness Abby and Patrick are joined by Nick Stock and Nick Peim, authors of the new book The Lacanian Teacher: Education, Pedagogy, and Enjoyment. From the origin stories teachers tell about themselves to the...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨What are the fantasies, anxieties, and institutional realities of education? How does knowledge relate to authority - and to lack? And why is the figure of Jacques Lacan so seductive? We're joined by Nick Stock (@89stock.bsky.social) and Nick Peim, authors of The Lacanian Teacher!

this is my favorite Case Study of Freud's. it reads like a novella, and feels so contemporary, so alive. it also beautifully thematizes what is IMO a fundamental concern: the way common human experiences, tragic and banal both, layer and accumulate singular meanings through an individual's life

118: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 7: Studies on Hysteria, Part VII: Fräulein Elisabeth von R Teaser - Ordinary Unhappiness Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby and Patrick arrive at the final case study in Freud and Breuer'...

🚨NEW STANDARD EDITION🚨 We begin "Fräulein Elisabeth von R," Freud's most accessible case study. It's a tale of a woman burdened by her family system, social roles, and bodily pain, and whose suffering finds poignant symbolic expression in her symptoms.

Loved this. When I’m asking my students to read Kristeva and Lacan etc I encourage them to read for association, not for understanding. Felt this is ‘precisely’ what you were saying in the beginning of the pod. It is really hard for them to let go of the search for understanding. Thanks ☺️

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UNLOCKED: 107: On Abjection - Ordinary Unhappiness Unlocked Patreon episode. Support Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon to get access to all the exclusive episodes. patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby, Patrick, and Dan discuss and apply Julia Kristeva’s ...

🚨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...

51: Psychoanalysis and Gaza feat. Jess Ghannam - Ordinary Unhappiness 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 ...

even as I hope desperately for this to be a lasting ceasefire I cannot but reel at thinking what the near, mid, and longterm consequences will be for Gazans, especially in light of our @unhappinesspod.bsky.social conversation with Dr. Jess Ghannam a year and a half ago now

Experiences in Groups | Lily Scherlis The more experienced attendees explain that here, one’s individual experience is seen as a symptom of the group’s dynamics. If someone is physically ill, it is because the system needs to eject someon...

You can read @lilyscherlis.bsky.social's fantastic essay about her experience at Tavistock in @nplusonemag.com at www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...

117: Experiences in Groups feat. Lily Scherlis Teaser - Ordinary Unhappiness Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby and Dan sit down with writer and performance artist Lily Scherl...

🚨 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.

Bonus Episode: Martyrdom, Mourning, and the Legacy of Charlie Kirk - Ordinary Unhappiness Abby and Patrick share Patrick’s appearance on the Know Your Enemy podcast, hosted by friends of Ordinary Unhappiness Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Patrick, Matt, and Sam process last weekend’s t...

🚨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.
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114: Fashion and Psychoanalysis feat. Valerie Steele - Ordinary Unhappiness Abby and Patrick welcome Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, to discuss her new book, Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and…

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

116: Writing Panic feat. Michael Clune - Ordinary Unhappiness Abby and Patrick welcome writer and academic Michael Clune to discuss his new novel, Pan. It is the story of Nick, a teenage boy living alone with his divorced father in the 1990s Midwest. Precocious ...

🚨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.
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115: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 6: Studies on Hysteria, Part VI: Katharina Teaser - Ordinary Unhappiness Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby and Patrick read the shortest, strangest, and arguably saddest entry in the Studies on Hysteria – the case of ...

🚨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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114: Fashion and Psychoanalysis feat. Valerie Steele - Ordinary Unhappiness Abby and Patrick welcome Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, to discuss her new book, Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Ps...

🚨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...

114: Fashion and Psychoanalysis feat. Valerie Steele - Ordinary Unhappiness Abby and Patrick welcome Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, to discuss her new book, Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Ps...

🚨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