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

    5 DAYS AGO

    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...

    1h 33m
  2. UNLOCKED: 49: Wild Analysis: Civil War

    NOV 9

    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...

    1h 54m
  3. 77: Gerontophallocracy 2024: Post-Election Processing Teaser

    NOV 7

    77: Gerontophallocracy 2024: Post-Election Processing Teaser

    Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby, Patrick, and Dan sit down for an immediate post-election processing session. They talk about time, change, what is or isn't "surprising," the difficulty of maintaining perspective, and how a psychoanalytic perspective can help us navigate moments like these. Plus: what is "hope," actually, and what do we mean when we ask for it?Have you noticed that Freud i...

    10 min
  4. 76: Gerontophallocracy 2024: Floating Signifiers Teaser

    NOV 2

    76: Gerontophallocracy 2024: Floating Signifiers Teaser

    It’s the last installment of Gerontophallocracy 2024 before the election. Abby, Patrick, and Dan process the vibes both in The Discourse and here in Pennsylvania (chaotic and bad); reflect on Harris on Call Her Daddy versus Trump on Rogan; talk about forced choices, votes, and fantasies of voting; discuss complicity and lesser-of-two evilism from the depressive position; and more. Have you noticed that Freud is back? Got questions about psychoanalysis? Or maybe you’ve traversed the fantasy an...

    9 min
  5. 75: Psychosocial Realism feat. Daniel Lavery

    OCT 26

    75: Psychosocial Realism feat. Daniel Lavery

    Abby and Patrick welcome writer Daniel Lavery to talk about his superb new book Women’s Hotel. Lavery’s novel conjures a now-vanished institution (low cost, long term residential communities for working women) in a since-disappeared landscape (midcentury New York City) and populates it with a cast of memorable characters whose entanglements, solidarities, and mixed fortunes dramatize the very contingencies of family, community, and human life itself. Abby and Patrick talk with Daniel about ho...

    1h 17m
  6. 74: The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, Part II Teaser

    OCT 19

    74: The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, Part II Teaser

    Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby, Patrick, and Dan continue their watch-through of Zizek’s “The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema.” They talk Tarkovsky and id-machines, Hitchcock and the impotence of male fantasy, Lynch and nightmares, films as dreams, and Zizek’s signature rhetorical style. Plus: does the impossibility of the sexual relationship mean that the inverse of the sexual relationship fin...

    5 min
  7. 73: Romance Was Never Real: From Courtly Love to the Rise of the F*****y feat. Sabrina Strings

    OCT 12

    73: Romance Was Never Real: From Courtly Love to the Rise of the F*****y feat. Sabrina Strings

    Abby and Patrick welcome Sabrina Strings, professor and North Hall Chair of Black Studies at UC Santa Barbara, to talk about her new book, The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance. The book is both a deep dive into the genealogy of western notions of "romance" - from medieval courtly love to Victorian mother/whore complexes - and a searing critique of contemporary ideologies of love, normative gender roles, practices of dating, and more. Strings takes Abby and Patrick on a jo...

    1h 30m
  8. 72: Track Changes feat. Lisa Borst and Mark Krotov of n+1

    OCT 5

    72: Track Changes feat. Lisa Borst and Mark Krotov of n+1

    Abby and Patrick welcome Lisa Borst and Mark Krotov of literary magazine n+1. The magazine is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year and marking this milestone with the publication of The Intellectual Situation: The Best of n+1’s Second Decade. Lisa, Mark, Abby, and Patrick engage in a conversation that ranges from the history of the magazine to the legacy of the Iraq War to the early dysphorias of the Trump administration to the contemporary publishing landscape and more. But at hea...

    1h 39m
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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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  • Creator
    Patrick & Abby
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    85
  • Rating
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    © 2024 Ordinary Unhappiness
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