
A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now, featuring Abby Kluchin & Patrick Blanchfield
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 183 | Founded | 4 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | PhilosophyNewsPoliticsSociety & Culture | |||

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It’s a Very Special Gerontophallocracy episode! Abby, Dan, and Patrick gather around the dining room table to proces... more
Just in time for Halloween, Abby and Patrick welcome video essayist and scholar Mariana Colín (aka The Morbid Zoo) for a wide-ranging conversation about media, communication, consent, the problem(s) of other minds, and more. What lies behind our fant... more
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Abby and Patrick take up Josef Breuer’s final contribution to the Studies on Hysteria. The second-last-chapter of th... more
Abby and Patrick are joined by Elizabeth Cotton, author of UberTherapy: The New Business of Mental Health, and Linda Michaels of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN), for a conversation about platform capitalism and datafication are reshaping psy... more
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Patrick, your contributions are mighty and brilliant, but your breathy, whispering cadence makes me feel violated.
As a psychoanalyst, writer, and teacher: I wholeheartedly approve of this close-reading dialogue.
I love this podcast! I send episodes to my friends and we enjoy discussing them! But the hosts' speaking styles are DIFFICULT. Abby talks too slowly, and I assume she thinks it makes her easier to understand, but I forget the beginning of each sentence by the time she gets to the end. Patrick talks at a normal rate (and I know Abby coached him to slow down from what used to be too fast), but he still hedges with 15 different clauses between the subject and the verb, so that I have to rewind ever... more
Brace yourself for immersive cold opens that wander 5 minutes or more. Dis-orienting orientation. Intense, but curious and oddly fond and respectful chats.
I used to love this podcast so much, but what is happening recently? Each episode is mostly just Patrick going off on tangents and constantly hedging and Abbie occasionally riffing on what he says. The guests get hardly any air time and the episodes feel directionless. Did Patrick up his Adderal or something?
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Conversations connect psychoanalysis with politics, philosophy, social life, and popular culture. Abby Kluchin and Patrick Blanchfield are the regular hosts, often working through foundational psychoanalytic texts and concepts in extended close readings, and sometimes bringing in scholars, clinicians, writers, and cultural critics. Topics range from Freud, narcissism, and trauma to film, gender, religion, technology, and contemporary mental-health systems.
The style is intellectually ambitious and informal, mixing careful interpretation with personal anecdotes, humor, and wide-ranging cultural references. Recurring series offer sustained attention to particular thinkers and ideas, while guest interviews bring specialist perspectives to cur... more
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Recent guests on Ordinary Unhappiness include:
1. Mariana Colín
2. Elizabeth Cotton
3. Linda Michaels
4. Robin Dembroff
5. Jack Hanson
6. Lara Sheehi
7. Danielle Drori
8. Jonathan Lear
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