Ordinary Unhappiness
By Patrick & Abby
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Episodes: 162
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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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145: Psychic Militancy feat. Lara Sheehi
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May 23, 2026 |
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144: Winnicott: Creativity and Subjectivity, Part II Teaser
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May 16, 2026 |
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143: Winnicott: Creativity and Subjectivity, Part I
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May 09, 2026 |
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142: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 12: Studies on Hysteria, Part XII: Dancing On My Own: Fräulein Elisabeth von R Continued Teaser
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May 02, 2026 |
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UNLOCKED: 133: Laplanche Part Two: The Primal Situation feat. Danielle Drori
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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141: Jonathan Lear and the “Good-Enough World” feat. Chris Landry
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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140: Psychoanalysis for the People feat. Loren Dent
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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139: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 11: Studies on Hysteria, Part XI: Technique and Resistance: Fräulein Elisabeth von R Continued Teaser
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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138: Genocide and the Politics of Hospitality feat. Avgi Saketopoulou
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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137: Repression, Resistance, and Reenactment feat. Séamus Malekafzali Teaser
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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136: Ideology and Family History feat. Jordy Rosenberg
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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135: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 10: Studies on Hysteria, Part X: Daddy’s Daughter or Some Man’s Husband: Fräulein Elisabeth von R Continued Teaser
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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134: On Suicide and the Indifference of Others feat. Helen Epstein
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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133: Laplanche Part Two: The Primal Situation feat. Danielle Drori Teaser
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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132: Laplanche Part One: Sexuality and Subjectivity feat. Danielle Drori
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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131: Wild Analysis: Heated Rivalry Teaser
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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BONUS EPISODE: Romantasy, Fantasy, and Trauma
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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130: Movies, Screens, and Fantasies feat. A.S. Hamrah
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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129: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 9: Studies on Hysteria, Part IX: Family Secrets and the Sacrifices of Marriage: Fräulein Elisabeth von R Continued Teaser
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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UNLOCKED: 117: Experiences in Groups feat. Lily Scherlis
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Jan 10, 2026 |
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128: Projective Identification Part II feat. Brian Ngo-Smith Teaser
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Jan 03, 2026 |
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127: Projective Identification Part I feat. Brian Ngo-Smith
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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126: Mailbag Part 2: Searching for the Self Teaser
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Dec 20, 2025 |
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125: Demons, Community, and Conversion Therapy feat. Grace Byron
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Dec 13, 2025 |
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124: Mailbag: Uses of Theory and AI Grinchiness Teaser
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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123: Polymorphous Perversity and Gender Pleasure feat. Lucie Fielding
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Nov 29, 2025 |
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UNLOCKED: 32: Thanksgiving Special, Part 2: Murder, Myth, and Memory
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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122: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 8: Studies on Hysteria, Part VIII: The Blow That Falls: Fräulein Elisabeth von R Continued Teaser
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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UNLOCKED: 103: Ayahuasca and Climate Grief feat. Sarah Miller
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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121: LSD: Subjectivity, Ineffability, and Mental Health feat. Dan Karlin
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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120: Wild Analysis: The Substance Teaser
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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119: Lacan, Knowledge, Fantasy feat. Nick Stock and Nick Peim
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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118: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 7: Studies on Hysteria, Part VII: Fräulein Elisabeth von R Teaser
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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UNLOCKED: 107: On Abjection
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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117: Experiences in Groups feat. Lily Scherlis Teaser
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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Bonus Episode: Martyrdom, Mourning, and the Legacy of Charlie Kirk
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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116: Writing Panic feat. Michael Clune
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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115: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 6: Studies on Hysteria, Part VI: Katharina Teaser
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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114: Fashion and Psychoanalysis feat. Valerie Steele
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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113: The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, Part III Teaser
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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112: Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy feat. Josh West
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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111: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 5: Studies on Hysteria, Part V: Miss Lucy R. Teaser
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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110: Wild Analysis: Sex and the City Teaser
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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Bonus Episode: Jeffrey Epstein: Open Secrets (Crossover with In Bed With the Right)
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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109: Somatics, Politics, and Practice feat. Sumitra Rajkumar
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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Episode 108: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 4: Studies on Hysteria, Part IV: Frau Emmy von N. Teaser
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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Episode 107: On Abjection Teaser
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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Episode 106: Abortion, Agency, and Protest feat. Hilary Plum
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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105: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 3: Studies on Hysteria, Part III: Four Versions of Anna O. Teaser
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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104: Manufacturing Homelessness feat. Brian Goldstone
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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103: Ayahuasca and Climate Grief feat. Sarah Miller
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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102: Reparations, Responsibility, and Climate Justice feat. Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
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May 24, 2025 |
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101: Mailbag: On Pain, Learning, and the Problem of Other Minds Teaser
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May 17, 2025 |
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100: Mailbag: An Embarrassment of Riches
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May 10, 2025 |
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99: Wild Analysis: The White Lotus feat Sam Adler-Bell Teaser
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May 03, 2025 |
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98: From Boundaries to Attachment: The Uses and Abuses of Pop Psychology feat. Lily Scherlis
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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97: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 2: Studies on Hysteria, Part II: Anna O.
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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96: Mediating Motherhood feat. Hannah Zeavin
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Apr 12, 2025 |
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95: Wild Analysis: Severance Teaser
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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UNLOCKED: 42: Wild Analysis: The President’s Analyst
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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94: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 1: Pearls of Suffering: Studies on Hysteria, Part I Teaser
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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93: On Emma Jung feat. Ann Conrad Lammers
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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92: Gerontophallocracy 2025: The Primitive Accumulation Monster Dad at the End of History Teaser
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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91: Feminism, Antagonism, and Solidarity feat. Sophie Lewis
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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90: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 12: The Project for a Scientific Psychology Part 3 Teaser
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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89: Breath, Vulnerability, and Interdependence feat. Jamieson Webster
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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88: On Hate and Aggression, Part IV Teaser
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Episode 87: On Hate and Aggression, Part III
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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86: On Hate and Aggression, Part II Teaser
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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85: On Hate and Aggression, Part I
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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84: New Year Vibe Check: I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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83: Religion and Neurosis feat. Nathan Rein Teaser
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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82: Effing the Ineffable feat. Simon Critchley
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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81: Mailbag Part II: Readings and Misreadings Teaser
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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80: On Fantasy feat. Jordan Stein
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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UNLOCKED: 31: Thanksgiving Special, Part 1: The Holiday Syndrome
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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79: Mailbag Episode: Resistances (Part One) Teaser
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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78: Reactionary Fantasies: On “Cancel Culture” and Moral Panic feat. Adrian Daub
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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UNLOCKED: 49: Wild Analysis: Civil War
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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77: Gerontophallocracy 2024: Post-Election Processing Teaser
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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76: Gerontophallocracy 2024: Floating Signifiers Teaser
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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75: Psychosocial Realism feat. Daniel Lavery
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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74: The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, Part II Teaser
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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73: Romance Was Never Real: From Courtly Love to the Rise of the Fuckboy feat. Sabrina Strings
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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72: Track Changes feat. Lisa Borst and Mark Krotov of n+1
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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71: Gerontophallocracy 2024: Proxy Battles Teaser
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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70: Wild Analysis: Heathers Teaser
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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UNLOCKED: 38: Wild Analysis: Taylor Swift
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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69: Truth, Lies, and Conspiracy Theories feat. Liz Franczak
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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68: Gerontophallocracy 2024: The September Debate: Domination and Other Pleasures Teaser
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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67: Gerontophallocracy 2024: Lethal Mothers and Try-Hard Sons feat. Sam Adler-Bell Teaser
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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66: Teens, Cops, and Spies: The Varieties of Hysterical Experience feat. Dan Taberski
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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65: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 11: The Project for a Scientific Psychology Part 2 Teaser
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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64: Grief, Loss, and Love feat. Sarah Jaffe
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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63: The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, Part I Teaser
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Aug 10, 2024 |
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62: Lacan and Psychosis in the City feat. Loren Dent
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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61: Gerontophallocracy 2024: Reality Testing and Temporal Distortion (It’s So Joever) Teaser
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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60: Love and Work feat. Joseph Earl Thomas
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Jul 20, 2024 |
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59: Gerontophallocracy 2024: The June Debate Teaser
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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58: Wild Analysis: The Idea of You feat. Anna Shechtman Teaser
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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57: “Do More Crosswords!” The Sexual Politics of Language feat. Anna Shechtman
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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56: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 10: The Project for a Scientific Psychology Part 1 Teaser
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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55: What is the Pleasure Principle? feat. Rebecca Ariel Porte
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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54: Wild Analysis: Challengers Teaser
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May 25, 2024 |
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53: Broke Psychoanalysis: Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic feat. Kevin Duong
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May 18, 2024 |
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52: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 9: Repression is a Scorpio: The Final Fliess Extracts feat. Christine Smallwood Teaser
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May 11, 2024 |
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51: Psychoanalysis and Gaza feat. Jess Ghannam
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May 04, 2024 |
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50: Political Disappointment feat. Sara Marcus
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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49: Wild Analysis: Civil War Teaser
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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UNLOCKED: 21: Wild Analysis: The Trauma Plot and the Joss Whedon Extended Cinematic Universe
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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48: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 8: Oedipus Approaches: The Fliess Extracts, Continued feat. Christine Smallwood Teaser
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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47: Extraction, Exhaustion, and the Problem with Resilience feat. Ajay Singh Chaudhary
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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Episode 46: Wild Analysis: Dune Teaser
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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45: The Fantasy of Family and the Meaning of Family Abolition feat. Sophie Lewis and M.E. O’Brien
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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44: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 7: The Prehistoric Other and the Great Lord Penis: The Fliess Extracts, Continued feat. Christine Smallwood Teaser
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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43: The Mirror Crack’d: The Mirror Stage, Part III
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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42: Wild Analysis: The President’s Analyst Teaser
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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41: Identification and Misrecognition: The Mirror Stage, Part II
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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40: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 6: The Symptom is a Compromise: The Fliess Extracts, Continued feat. Christine Smallwood Teaser
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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39: It’s Not You, It’s Lacan: The Mirror Stage, Part I
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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38: Wild Analysis: Taylor Swift Teaser
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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UNLOCKED: 25: Wild Analysis: Barbie
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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37: New Year’s Mailbag: The Capacity for Change Teaser
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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36: Hate, Help, and Housing: Psychoanalysis and Social Work feat. Brian Ngo-Smith
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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35: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 5: Fragments, Paranoia, and Projection: The Fliess Extracts, Continued feat. Christine Smallwood Teaser
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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34: Fatphobia and Moral Feelings feat. Kate Manne
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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33: The Problem with Empathy feat. Jade E. Davis
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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32: Thanksgiving Special, Part 2: Murder, Myth, and Memory Teaser
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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31: Thanksgiving Special, Part 1: The Holiday Syndrome Teaser
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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UNLOCKED: 14: Standard Edition Volume I Part 1: Freud Goes to Paris
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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30: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 4: Wilhelm Fliess: The Anxiety of Influence (and a Theory of Noses) feat. Christine Smallwood Teaser
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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29: Gender, Trauma, and Psychoanalytic Politics feat. Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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28: Wild Analysis: Halloween (1978) Teaser
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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27: From HIV to COVID: Virality, Vulnerability, and Interdependence feat. Steven Thrasher
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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26: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 3: Freud’s Two Dads Teaser
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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UNLOCKED: 05: Wild Analysis: Mailbag - Dream Interpretation
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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25: Wild Analysis: Barbie TEASER
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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24: Drugs and the Death Drive feat. Ben Fong
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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23: Puns, Jokes, and Serious People feat. Ben Wurgaft
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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22: Realism and Other Romances feat. Grace Lavery
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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21: Wild Analysis: The Trauma Plot and the Joss Whedon Extended Cinematic Universe Teaser
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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20: A Dangerous Method: Sabina Spielrein, Carl Jung, Otto Gross
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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19: Advice and Anonymity feat. Danny Lavery, Rebecca Ariel Porte, and Kali Handelman: OU + the Podcast for Social Research
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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18: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 2: Hysteria, Hypnosis, and Imposter Syndrome Teaser
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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17: Fanon the Clinician feat. Nica Siegel
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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16: Fantasy, Fascism, and Technology: From the Frankfurt School to Silicon Valley feat. Moira Weigel
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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15: Diagnosis and Identity: Mailbag Episode!
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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14: Standard Edition Volume I Part 1: Freud Goes to Paris Teaser
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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13: The Journalist and the Analyst: On Janet Malcolm feat. Sam Adler-Bell
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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UNLOCKED: Short Session 1 - Transference, continued
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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12: From Parties to Projective Identification: Why is Group Life so Hard? feat. Christine Smallwood
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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11: Succession: Oedipus and Failsons
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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10: Wild Analysis: Problematic Faves and the Anxiety of Influence Teaser
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May 27, 2023 |
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09: The Pleasure of the Text: The Standard Edition
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May 20, 2023 |
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08: Political Economy, Libidinal Economy
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May 13, 2023 |
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07: Kettle Logic and Family Secrets: The Uncanny, Part II
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May 06, 2023 |
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06: Unheimlich Maneuver: The Uncanny, Part I
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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05: Wild Analysis: Mailbag Episode! Teaser
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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03: Bonus Content: Short session I - Transference, continued Teaser
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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04: Guess Who’s Back, Back Again (It’s Freud) feat. Hannah Zeavin and Alex Colston
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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02: Transference
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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01: What is Psychoanalysis?
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Apr 01, 2023 |