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 Jun 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...
3 Jun 20232h 5min
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...
27 Mai 20232min
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...
20 Mai 20231h 12min
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...
13 Mai 20231h 27min
07: Kettle Logic and Family Secrets: The Uncanny, Part II
Abby and Patrick return to Freud’s idea of the “uncanny” as an unconventional path to their real target: the unconscious. They talk about the limits of our rationality; “kettle logic” and how it opera...
6 Mai 20231h 18min
06: Unheimlich Maneuver: The Uncanny, Part I
Abby, Patrick, and Dan sneak up on the idea of the unconscious by tackling Freud’s concept of the “uncanny,” and its relationship to anxiety, fear, and the “omnipotence of thoughts.” They talk horror ...
29 Apr 20231h 20min
05: Wild Analysis: Mailbag Episode! Teaser
We take your calls and talk about dream interpretation, professional ethics, and visions of therapy for the world we live in versus the world we want to inhabit. (We are also unexpectedly haunted by t...
23 Apr 20232min
