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. 91: Feminism, Antagonism, and Solidarity feat. Sophie Lewis

    22 FEB

    91: Feminism, Antagonism, and Solidarity feat. Sophie Lewis

    Abby and Patrick welcome author Sophie Lewis to discuss her latest book, Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation. Together, they explore the history of a variety of feminisms, self-identified and otherwise, that can justifiably provoke anxiety and even rejection in those invested in feminism as an emancipatory concept and project. Their conversation ranges from nineteenth-century activists who saw the rights of women as entailing the right to own slaves to those...

    1 h y 37 min
  2. 90: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 12: The Project for a Scientific Psychology Part 3 Teaser

    15 FEB

    90: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 12: The Project for a Scientific Psychology Part 3 Teaser

    Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness Abby, Patrick, and Dan close out The Project for a Scientific Psychology - and the first volume of the Standard Edition - in its entirety! First, they unpack the key steps of Freud's quantitative argument" from the nature of "Q" to Freud's proposal of different kinds of "neurones" to how (in his view) the whole apparatus works to discharge built-up energy. Then,...

    4 min
  3. 89: Breath, Vulnerability, and Interdependence feat. Jamieson Webster

    8 FEB

    89: Breath, Vulnerability, and Interdependence feat. Jamieson Webster

    Abby and Patrick welcome psychoanalyst and author Jamieson Webster to discuss her brand-new book, On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe, out in March 2025 from Catapult. It’s a wide-ranging conversation that traverses clinical, social, and political domains while remaining firmly grounded in one of the most basic prerequisites for human life: the activity of breathing. In what ways does the history of psychoanalysis represent a repression of the fact of breathing? How do analytic accoun...

    1 h y 8 min
  4. 88: On Hate and Aggression, Part IV Teaser

    1 FEB

    88: On Hate and Aggression, Part IV Teaser

    Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness Abby, Patrick, and Dan put Winnicott’s ideas about hate and aggression to work. What everyday situations, personal experiences, and institutional practices get clarified when we consider them as reflecting displaced feelings of hate? What do popular beliefs about hate look like when seen in Winnicottian terms, and how might familiar ideologies actually rely on c...

    3 min
  5. Episode 87: On Hate and Aggression, Part III

    25 ENE

    Episode 87: On Hate and Aggression, Part III

    Abby, Patrick, and Dan conclude their close reading of Winnicott’s “Hate in the Counter-Transference,” unpacking and tying together its three biggest arguments. First, there’s the connection Winnicott draws between the therapeutic encounter and childhood development: more than just an analogy, these two environments are directly connected, and in fraught ways. Second, there’s the link he draws between early experiences of “deprivation,” counter-transferential enactments in treatment, and the ...

    1 h y 47 min
  6. 86: On Hate and Aggression, Part II Teaser

    18 ENE

    86: On Hate and Aggression, Part II Teaser

    Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness Abby, Patrick, and Dan start close-reading Winnicott’s famous paper, “Hate in the Counter-Transference” (1949, originally delivered as a paper two years earlier). They start with its place and time, situating Winnicott’s work within the context of post-war Britain. This was a clinical landscape where a tiny number of analysts stood apart from a psychiatric esta...

    4 min
  7. 85: On Hate and Aggression, Part I

    11 ENE

    85: On Hate and Aggression, Part I

    Abby, Patrick, and Dan take up a topic that couldn’t be more relevant to the contemporary zeitgeist – aggression – as theorized by an unlikely source: the British analyst and pediatrician D.W. Winnicott. What did this beloved and famously gentle figure have to say about aggression, and our taboos and fantasies surrounding it? Where does aggression come from, and what is its function developmentally? And what role can acknowledging feelings of “hate” play in the family, in psychotherapy, and i...

    1 h y 36 min
  8. 84: New Year Vibe Check: I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On

    4 ENE

    84: New Year Vibe Check: I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On

    Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness Abby, Patrick, and Dan get together for a looking-forward, looking-backward session surveying the year that was and assessing the year ahead. It’s a suitably ambivalent, Janus-faced assessment of political developments, cultural milestones, new hobbies, simmering dreads, and bold resolutions. Plus: the dream of Lacanian Finance Grifting. Have you noticed that ...

    11 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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    Patrick & Abby
  • Años de actividad
    2023 - 2025
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