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Ordinary Unhappiness

Patrick & Abby

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A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now, featuring Abby Kluchin & Patrick Blanchfield

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Episodes (175)

158: On the Impossibility of Being a Real Man feat. Robin Dembroff

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157: Wild Analysis: Backrooms Teaser

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156: 9/11: Chosen Traumas and Time Collapse

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Aug 29, 20262:38:36pending

155: Freud’s “On Narcissism”: Narcissism, Part 6 Teaser

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154: Let’s Talk About Sex(ology): Narcissism, Part 5

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153: Everyone’s Looking at You and You’re Probably Going to Hell: Narcissism, Pa...

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152: The Pope, the Church, and the Politics of Progress feat. Jack Hanson

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151: All is Vanity: Narcissism, Part 3

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150: Cops in Our Heads feat. Stuart Schrader

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149: Myth, Fate, and Desire: Narcissism, Part 2

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148: You’re So Vain: Narcissism, Part 1

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147: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 13: Studies on Hysteria, Part XIII: The Home...

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146: Winnicott: Creativity and Subjectivity, Part III Teaser

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145: Psychic Militancy feat. Lara Sheehi

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144: Winnicott: Creativity and Subjectivity, Part II Teaser

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143: Winnicott: Creativity and Subjectivity, Part I

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142: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 12: Studies on Hysteria, Part XII: Dancing O...

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UNLOCKED: 133: Laplanche Part Two: The Primal Situation feat. Danielle Drori

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141: Jonathan Lear and the “Good-Enough World” feat. Chris Landry

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140: Psychoanalysis for the People feat. Loren Dent

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139: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 11: Studies on Hysteria, Part XI: Technique...

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138: Genocide and the Politics of Hospitality feat. Avgi Saketopoulou

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137: Repression, Resistance, and Reenactment feat. Séamus Malekafzali Teaser

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136: Ideology and Family History feat. Jordy Rosenberg

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135: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 10: Studies on Hysteria, Part X: Daddy’s Dau...

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134: On Suicide and the Indifference of Others feat. Helen Epstein

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133: Laplanche Part Two: The Primal Situation feat. Danielle Drori Teaser

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132: Laplanche Part One: Sexuality and Subjectivity feat. Danielle Drori

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131: Wild Analysis: Heated Rivalry Teaser

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BONUS EPISODE: Romantasy, Fantasy, and Trauma

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130: Movies, Screens, and Fantasies feat. A.S. Hamrah

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129: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 9: Studies on Hysteria, Part IX: Family Secr...

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UNLOCKED: 117: Experiences in Groups feat. Lily Scherlis

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128: Projective Identification Part II feat. Brian Ngo-Smith Teaser

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127: Projective Identification Part I feat. Brian Ngo-Smith

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126: Mailbag Part 2: Searching for the Self Teaser

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125: Demons, Community, and Conversion Therapy feat. Grace Byron

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124: Mailbag: Uses of Theory and AI Grinchiness Teaser

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123: Polymorphous Perversity and Gender Pleasure feat. Lucie Fielding

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UNLOCKED: 32: Thanksgiving Special, Part 2: Murder, Myth, and Memory

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122: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 8: Studies on Hysteria, Part VIII: The Blow...

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UNLOCKED: 103: Ayahuasca and Climate Grief feat. Sarah Miller

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121: LSD: Subjectivity, Ineffability, and Mental Health feat. Dan Karlin

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120: Wild Analysis: The Substance Teaser

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119: Lacan, Knowledge, Fantasy feat. Nick Stock and Nick Peim

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118: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 7: Studies on Hysteria, Part VII: Fräulein E...

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UNLOCKED: 107: On Abjection

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117: Experiences in Groups feat. Lily Scherlis Teaser

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Bonus Episode: Martyrdom, Mourning, and the Legacy of Charlie Kirk

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116: Writing Panic feat. Michael Clune

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