Ordinary Unhappiness

Patrick & Abby
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Ordinary Unhappiness

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

  1. 83: Religion and Neurosis feat. Nathan Rein Teaser

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    83: Religion and Neurosis feat. Nathan Rein Teaser

    Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby and Patrick sit down with religious studies scholar and Reformation historian Nathan Rein to discuss Freud’s “Obsessive Actions and Religious Practices” (1907). This is Freud’s first extended treatment of religion as such, with a particular emphasis on ritual, and, in classic Freudian style, sees him provocatively linking individual symptoms with broader cul...

    10 min
  2. 82: Effing the Ineffable feat. Simon Critchley

    14 DÉC.

    82: Effing the Ineffable feat. Simon Critchley

    Abby and Patrick are joined by philosopher Simon Critchley to discuss his new book, On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy. They discuss how, for Critchley, mysticism represents "a way of thinking about existential ecstasy that is outside and more than the conscious self.” Exploring the book’s survey of key figures and texts in the Western Christian tradition, the three unpack how accounts of mystical experiences can challenge our assumptions about the past, defy traditional philosophical id...

    1 h 27 min
  3. 81: Mailbag Part II: Readings and Misreadings Teaser

    7 DÉC.

    81: Mailbag Part II: Readings and Misreadings Teaser

    Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby, Patrick, and Dan shake off the Holiday Syndrome torpor to continue our previous mailbag episode – including even more feedback from you! The over-arching theme is movement: what sparks different journeys for different people; the differing things we may find moving intellectually or emotionally; how public engagements with thinkers and traditions can variou...

    6 min
  4. 80: On Fantasy feat. Jordan Stein

    30 NOV.

    80: On Fantasy feat. Jordan Stein

    Abby and Patrick welcome writer and scholar Jordan Stein to tackle a fundamental psychoanalytic concept that’s also a fundamentally slippery one: fantasy. What, exactly, are these things we call “fantasies,” which arise in a liminal zone between what we consciously, intentionally imagine and what seems to come to us, unbidden, from the unconscious? How do fantasies straddle the gaps between the real world as we understand it, scenarios we know to be impossible, and things we try, nonetheless,...

    1 h 16 min
  5. UNLOCKED: 31: Thanksgiving Special, Part 1: The Holiday Syndrome

    26 NOV. · BONUS

    UNLOCKED: 31: Thanksgiving Special, Part 1: The Holiday Syndrome

    Unlocked Patreon episode. Support Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon to get access to all the exclusive episodes. patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessIn the first installment of our two-part Thanksgiving Special, we discuss the so-called “Holiday Syndrome” in general and with an eye towards the upcoming US holiday season in particular. We explore how holidays catalyze some of our most elemental anxieties and fantasies as embodied in the institution known as the family. We walk through Sandor Ferenczi...

    1 h 51 min
  6. 79: Mailbag Episode: Resistances (Part One) Teaser

    23 NOV.

    79: Mailbag Episode: Resistances (Part One) Teaser

    Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby, Patrick, and Dan respond to your questions! They talk teaching Freud in high school and beyond, including how to approach teaching some of the gnarliest case histories (read: Dora), and debate what an analytic perspective can offer in grappling with communication dynamics in the workplace, especially across differentials in power. What does it mean for an e...

    4 min
  7. 78: Reactionary Fantasies: On “Cancel Culture” and Moral Panic feat. Adrian Daub

    16 NOV.

    78: Reactionary Fantasies: On “Cancel Culture” and Moral Panic feat. Adrian Daub

    Abby and Patrick welcome academic, writer, and In Bed With the Right podcast co-host Adrian Daub to discuss his new book, The Cancel Culture Panic: How An American Obsession Went Global. Daub’s book is an exploration of the discourse over “cancel culture” that sets the concept in both historical and global context. In what ways is talk of “cancel culture” merely a return of decades-old complaints about so-called “political correctness,” and in what ways is it different? Why do broad narrative...

    1 h 33 min
  8. UNLOCKED: 49: Wild Analysis: Civil War

    9 NOV.

    UNLOCKED: 49: Wild Analysis: Civil War

    We're off this weekend, but here's a thematically appropriate episode from earlier this year. Come find us on Patreon for our recent political coverage, The Standard Edition series, and more Wild Analysis. We'll be back next Saturday.---While Abby’s voice is still gone, Dan and Patrick take in a film on opening day and subject it to some wild analysis. The movie is Civil War (2024), and, to hear director Alex Garland tell it, it’s a dire warning of how things could turn out in the US sometime...

    1 h 54 min
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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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  • Création
    Patrick & Abby
  • Années d’activité
    2023 - 2024
  • Épisodes
    91
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    © 2024 Ordinary Unhappiness
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