14: Standard Edition Volume I Part 1: Freud Goes to Paris Teaser
Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness In this second episode of The Standard Edition, we finally start d...
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13: The Journalist and the Analyst: On Janet Malcolm feat. Sam Adler-Bell
Abby and Patrick welcome journalist and critic Sam Adler-Bell, co-host of Dissent magazine’s Know Your Enemy podcast. They talk about how Sam came to study conservative thought from a leftist perspect...
24 Kesä 20231h 49min
UNLOCKED: Short Session 1 - Transference, continued
Unlocked Patreon episode. Support Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon to get access to all the exclusive episodes. Continuing the conversation on transference started in Episode 2, Patrick and Dan discus...
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12: From Parties to Projective Identification: Why is Group Life so Hard? feat. Christine Smallwood
Abby and Patrick welcome novelist and literary critic Christine Smallwood, author of The Life of the Mind. They discuss the novel’s protagonist Dorothy (who hires a second therapist to talk about her ...
10 Kesä 20232h 14min
11: Succession: Oedipus and Failsons
Abby, Patrick, and Dan get into the great Oedipal drama of our times: Succession. They discuss a ludicrously capacious number of versions of the Oedipus story; the development of the Oedipus complex t...
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10: Wild Analysis: Problematic Faves and the Anxiety of Influence Teaser
The three of us talk problematic faves, guilty pleasures, comfort food (literal and metaphorical), and the dangers of nostalgia. We focus on thinkers who have been crucial to our own intellectual form...
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09: The Pleasure of the Text: The Standard Edition
Abby and Patrick introduce a new series: the Standard Edition. That’s right; they’re going to read and discuss the entire Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. In this...
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08: Political Economy, Libidinal Economy
Abby puts Patrick on the hot seat to talk psychoanalysis and politics. They discuss how psychoanalytic concepts can help bypass partisan political explanations; the construction of a “we”; identificat...
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