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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!

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...

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 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?
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a photo of several dresses at the FIT's new exhibit, Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis. At center is a spiky black dress by Viktor and Rolf. It's awesome.

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!

113: The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, Part III Teaser - Ordinary Unhappiness Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby, Dan, and Patrick conclude their viewing of Sophie Fiennes’ and...

🚨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.
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112: Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy feat. Josh West - Ordinary Unhappiness Abby and Patrick are joined by Dr. Josh West to talk about some remarkable developments in psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy in Australia. Josh explains to Abby and Patrick how the clinical trials he ...

🚨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...

111: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 5: Studies on Hysteria, Part V: Miss Lucy 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 turn to the next of Freud’s cases in Studies on Hys...

🚨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...

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we're doing a Back to School membership special! check it out!
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110: Wild Analysis: Sex and the City 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 mark the announcement of the end of And Just Like 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...

Bonus Episode: Jeffrey Epstein: Open Secrets (Crossover with In Bed With the Right) - Ordinary Unhappiness We’re happy to share In Bed With the Right's latest episode. Patrick sits down with friends of OU Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan to reckon with the Epstein case - what we know, what we don’t know, what...

🚨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...

109: Somatics, Politics, and Practice feat. Sumitra Rajkumar - Ordinary Unhappiness Abby and Patrick are joined by somatics practitioner Sumitra Rajkumar to clarify the theory and practice of somatics and its relationship to ideas of personal and collective transformation. Sumitra wa...

🚨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...

Episode 108: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 4: Studies on Hysteria, Part IV: Frau Emmy von N. 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 examine the case study of “Frau Emmy von N.” From t...

🚨 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...

Episode 107: On Abjection Teaser - Ordinary Unhappiness Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby, Patrick, and Dan discuss and apply Julia Kristeva’s concept of...

🚨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...

Episode 106: Abortion, Agency, and Protest feat. Hilary Plum - Ordinary Unhappiness Abby and Patrick sit down with writer Hilary Plum to discuss her remarkable new book, State Champ. A novel at which the politics of abortion stand at the center, but far from a didactically “political...

🚨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...

a lovely early 20th century postcard of vienna in the summer; two fellows in little sculls row upon a azure lake in front of a whimsical pink manse

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... !

105: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 3: Studies on Hysteria, Part III: Four Versions of Anna O. Teaser - Ordinary Unhappiness Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby, Patrick, and Dan return to the first case study in Studies On ...

🚨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.

104: Manufacturing Homelessness feat. Brian Goldstone - Ordinary Unhappiness Abby and Patrick welcome journalist and anthropologist Brian Goldstone to discuss his new book, There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America.  A devastating and essential read, There...

🚨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...

103: Ayahuasca and Climate Grief feat. Sarah Miller - Ordinary Unhappiness Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby and Patrick are joined by one of their favorite writers, Sarah ...

🚨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...

103: Ayahuasca and Climate Grief feat. Sarah Miller - Ordinary Unhappiness Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby and Patrick are joined by one of their favorite writers, Sarah ...

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!

92: Gerontophallocracy 2025: The Primitive Accumulation Monster Dad at the End of History Teaser - Ordinary Unhappiness Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessFor the first time since the inauguration, our series metabolizing t...

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...

102: Reparations, Responsibility, and Climate Justice feat. Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò - Ordinary Unhappiness Abby and Patrick welcome philosopher Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on the occasion of the new edition of his book Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Sl...

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...

102: Reparations, Responsibility, and Climate Justice feat. Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò - Ordinary Unhappiness Abby and Patrick welcome philosopher Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on the occasion of the new edition of his book Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Sl...

🚨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!

101: Mailbag: On Pain, Learning, and the Problem of Other Minds Teaser - Ordinary Unhappiness Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessIn the second half of our their hundred-episode Mailbag spectacular,...

🚨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!

100: Mailbag: An Embarrassment of Riches - Ordinary Unhappiness Abby, Patrick, and Dan mark one hundred episodes of Ordinary Unhappiness! They start by looking back on the show’s run so far, and what they’ve gotten from engaging with psychoanalysis as a living bod...

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...

100: Mailbag: An Embarrassment of Riches - Ordinary Unhappiness Abby, Patrick, and Dan mark one hundred episodes of Ordinary Unhappiness! They start by looking back on the show’s run so far, and what they’ve gotten from engaging with psychoanalysis as a living bod...

🚨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) 🥳🎂 🎉
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Episode 99: Wild Analysis: The White Lotus feat Sam Adler-Bell | Ordinary Unhappiness Get more from Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon

🚨 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