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@counterfactual.bsky.social

co-host of the Ordinary Unhappiness podcast, co-founder of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research abbykluchin.com ordinaryunhappiness.com patreon.com/ordinaryunhappiness

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Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 4d ago

🚨NEW PATREON-ONLY EP🚨 Summer of Narcissism arrives at the early modern world! We talk Luther, Calvin, Weber, Wollstonecraft, and where we get an anxious modern Self that just can't stop won't stop needing to justify itself www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 153: Everyone’s Looking at You and You’re Probably Going to Hell: Narcissism, Part 4 | Ordinary Unhappiness

The Ordinary Unhappiness journey through the origins of narcissism arrives at the early modern period and a Europe in full-blown crisis. It’

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Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 The brilliant @jackhanson.bsky.social joins us for a fantastic conversation about Pope Leo and the politics of the papacy; Catholic social doctrine, JD Vance, and the state of the American church; alienation, desire, AI, and much, much more! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 152: The Pope, the Church, and the Politics of Progress feat. Jack Hanson | Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick welcome writer, critic, and religion scholar Jack Hanson for an in-depth and wide-ranging conversation about the politics a

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield@patblanchfield.bsky.social · 2w ago

still buzzing from our wide-ranging deep-dive into the politics and significance of the contemporary Catholic Church with the great @jackhanson.bsky.social. just a phenomenal conversation, and we got to close-read an amazing encyclical to boot! CC @harpers.bsky.social www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 152: The Pope, the Church, and the Politics of Progress feat. Jack Hanson | Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick welcome writer, critic, and religion scholar Jack Hanson for an in-depth and wide-ranging conversation about the politics a

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Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚨NEW PATREON-ONLY EPISODE🚨 Summer of Narcissism continues! From the Bible to Dante to the Wife of Bath, we explore how the stakes of narcissism relate to longstanding cultural anxieties over "vainglory," gender, pleasure, pride, and subjectivity www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 151: All is Vanity: Narcissism, Part 3 | Ordinary Unhappiness

Episode 151: All is Vanity: Narcissism, Part 3 by Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon. Join Ordinary Unhappiness's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield@patblanchfield.bsky.social · last mo.

How are police unions different from other unions? What are the politics of police institutions, internally, and in relation to one another? And why do cops have so much power? grateful to @stschrader1.bsky.social for joining us on @unhappinesspod.bsky.social www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 150: Cops in Our Heads feat. Stuart Schrader | Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick welcome historian Stuart Schrader for a conversation about the history, ideology, and politics of contemporary American pol

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield@patblanchfield.bsky.social · last mo.

“America is a mistake; a gigantic mistake, but a mistake.” Freud hated birthdays, and also hated America. Revisiting this on America's birthday and, yeah, his reasons check out. themarginaliareview.com/freud-americ...

Freud and the American Death Drive by Patrick Blanchfield | The Marginalia Review of Books

If ever a person could kill a joke, it was Sigmund Freud. “Here is an American anecdote: ‘Two not particularly scrupulous businessmen had

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Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 The institutions of modern American policing are far younger than the USA itself. Yet the police now seem ubiquitous - and their self-interested exercise of political power is undeniable. The brilliant @stschrader1.bsky.social helps us understand why. www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 150: Cops in Our Heads feat. Stuart Schrader | Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick welcome historian Stuart Schrader for a conversation about the history, ideology, and politics of contemporary American pol

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Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨NEW PATREON-ONLY EPISODE🚨 Summer of Narcissism Part 2! We go back to ancient Greece, explore the many versions of the story of Narcissus and his doomed encounter with Echo, and talk desire, frustration, family transgression, and more! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 149: Myth, Fate, and Desire: Narcissism, Part 2 | Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby, Patrick, and Dan dig into the realms of myth and fable to investigate the ancient origins of the Narcissus myth. As they discover, beh

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield@patblanchfield.bsky.social · 2mo ago

so excited about our @unhappinesspod.bsky.social Summer of Narcissism series. from ancient myths and deadly sins to Victorian sexology and contemporary psychiatry, from self-help buzzword to weapon in generational culture wars, from personal to political to libidinal-economic, we're doing it all!

Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 NEW SERIES 🚨 Summer of Narcissism begins! From diagnostic category to pop psychology buzzword to object of political critique to a label for making sense of our personal relationship, "narcissism" pops up everywhere. But what does it mean - and why? www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 NEW SERIES 🚨 Summer of Narcissism begins! From diagnostic category to pop psychology buzzword to object of political critique to a label for making sense of our personal relationship, "narcissism" pops up everywhere. But what does it mean - and why? www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 148: You’re So Vain: Narcissism, Part 1 | Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby, Patrick, and Dan kick off Ordinary Unhappiness’s Summer of Narcissism series! In this first episode of many, the three reckon with how

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Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨NEW PATREON EPISODE🚨 We conclude the case of Fräulein Elisabeth von R! From her real identity to Freud's surprising thoughts on the case study genre to our own expectations about what a successful analysis should look like, and more. www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 147: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 13: Studies on Hysteria, Part XIII: The Home Economics of Grief: Fräulein Elisabeth von R Concluded | Ordinary Unhappiness

Episode 147: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 13: Studies on Hysteria, Part XIII: The Home Economics of Grief: Fräulein Elisabeth von R Concluded by Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon. Join Ordinary Unhapp...

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Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨NEW PATREON EPISODE🚨 The riddle of a boy's unhealthy fixation with string. The intergenerational pain and loss behind a woman's fantasy of an elusive horse. Abby, Dan, and Patrick talk Winnicott's case studies, addiction, attachment, absence and more. www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

Episode 146: Winnicott: Creativity and Subjectivity, Part III | Ordinary Unhappiness

Episode 146: Winnicott: Creativity and Subjectivity, Part III by Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon. Join Ordinary Unhappiness's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield@patblanchfield.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I felt privileged to be alongside @counterfactual.bsky.social in this incredibly stimulating and clarifying @unhappinesspod.bsky.social conversation we had with the brilliant Lara Sheehi. I really encourage you to give it a listen, and read her book too CC @plutopress.bsky.social

Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Lara Sheehi, author of From the Clinic to the Streets, joins us for a conversation about the politics of analytic institutions, disavowed histories, and the psyche as battlefield from Fanon to counterinsurgency theory to Gaza and beyond www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Lara Sheehi, author of From the Clinic to the Streets, joins us for a conversation about the politics of analytic institutions, disavowed histories, and the psyche as battlefield from Fanon to counterinsurgency theory to Gaza and beyond www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

Episode 145: Psychic Militancy feat. Lara Sheehi | Ordinary Unhappiness

Episode 145: Psychic Militancy feat. Lara Sheehi by Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon. Join Ordinary Unhappiness's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 What's a "transitional object"? What can theorizing infantile development and observing children at play reveal about adult behaviors, cultural activities, and our capacities for creativity and growth? Join us for new Winnicott miniseries! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

143: Winnicott: Creativity and Subjectivity, Part I - Ordinary Unhappiness

Taking a breather from our moment’s unrelentingly grim headlines, Abby, Patrick, and Dan return to a favorite analytic thinker – Donald Winnicott (1896-1971) – and begin the first of a two-part episod...

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield@patblanchfield.bsky.social · 3mo ago

tired: alienated life lived wrongly in a parasocial shadow realm of posting and podcasts wired: authentic good life lived rightly with @counterfactual.bsky.social @samadlerbell.bsky.social me and sundry delightful people + great food + an open bar, all in support of @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social

2026 Annual Institute Social - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

BISR warmly invites you to our 2026 Institute Social! Please join us Thursday, June 4 at the Goethe-Institut New York for our largest fundraiser of the year—a celebration of critical, community-based ...

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Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨NEW STANDARD EDITION🚨 Freud's treatment of Elizabeth von R arrives at its electrifying conclusion, with new revelations, a decisive intervention, social drama, and more! www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

Episode 142: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 12: Studies on Hysteria, Part XII: Dancing On My Own: Fräulein Elisabeth von R Continued | Ordinary Unhappiness

Episode 142: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 12: Studies on Hysteria, Part XII: Dancing On My Own: Fräulein Elisabeth von R Continued by Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon. Join Ordinary Unhappiness's com...

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Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Clinician Chris Landry joins us to talk the life and legacy of analyst and philosopher Jonathan Lear (1948-2025), the transformative implications of Lear's ideas for psychotherapy, his own work in community psychoanalysis, and more! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

141: Jonathan Lear and the “Good-Enough World” feat. Chris Landry - Ordinary Unhappiness

Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessClinician Chris Landry joins Abby and Patrick for a reflection on th...

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Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Clinician Loren Dent talks community psychoanalysis from Freud's call for "psychoanalysis for the people" to Lacan's overhaul of analytic training to the US today. Plus: the stakes of community, international histories, burnout, and more. www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

140: Psychoanalysis for the People feat. Loren Dent - Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick welcome returning guest Loren Dent. As co-director of Brooklyn’s Greene Clinic, Loren is the ideal person to unpack the history, meaning, and contemporary landscape of community psych...

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Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 NEW STANDARD EDITION🚨 As Freud's treatment of Elisabeth von R enters its "second phase," we focus on Freud's technique! From free association to the analysis of resistances to the part played by a clinician's confidence - it's all there, and more! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

139: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 11: Studies on Hysteria, Part XI: Technique and Resistance: Fräulein Elisabeth von R Continued Teaser - Ordinary Unhappiness

Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby and Patrick cover the “second phase” of Freud’s treatment of El...

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield@patblanchfield.bsky.social · 5mo ago

incredibly grateful for our @unhappinesspod.bsky.social conversation with Avgi Saketopoulou about the politics of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic institutions; fantasies and capacities for tolerating speech, distress, and difference; the uses of sadism; and more!

138: Genocide and the Politics of Hospitality feat. Avgi Saketopoulou - Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick welcome psychoanalyst Avgi Saketopoulou for a frank conversation about politics, psychoanalysis, and the politics of psychoanalysts and of psychoanalytic institutions. Recent years ha...

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Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨 Psychoanalyst Avgi Saketopoulou returns to talk the politics of psychoanalysis, psychoanalysts, and psychoanalytic institutions in our moment of wars, state repression, mass murder, and fear. www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

138: Genocide and the Politics of Hospitality feat. Avgi Saketopoulou - Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick welcome psychoanalyst Avgi Saketopoulou for a frank conversation about politics, psychoanalysis, and the politics of psychoanalysts and of psychoanalytic institutions. Recent years ha...

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield@patblanchfield.bsky.social · 5mo ago

our latest @unhappinesspod.bsky.social is an in-depth interview with the great @seamus-malekafzali.com about Iran, the US-Israel relationship, the politics of memory, and much more. I'm still sitting with it all, will be for a while, and am so grateful to Séamus for his insights, generosity and time

137: Repression, Resistance, and Reenactment feat. Séamus Malekafzali Teaser - Ordinary Unhappiness

Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby and Patrick are joined by Séamus Malekafzali, a journalist whos...

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Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We're joined by the brilliant @seamus-malekafzali.com to talk the US war with Iran; intergenerational experiences of historical traumas; repression, resistance, and enactment; Israeli-US relations as a “feedback loop”; and much more. www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

137: Repression, Resistance, and Reenactment feat. Séamus Malekafzali Teaser - Ordinary Unhappiness

Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby and Patrick are joined by Séamus Malekafzali, a journalist whos...

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Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We're joined by one of our favorite writers, @jordyrosenberg.bsky.social, author of the brutal, sublime, and hilarious new novel Night Night Fawn. We talk everything from mothers to melancholy to Marxism to ethnonationalism and more! CC @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

136: Ideology and Family History feat. Jordy Rosenberg - Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick welcome novelist and academic Jordy Rosenberg to discuss his brand-new novel, Night Night Fawn. Alternately hilarious and devasting, Night Night Fawn is written in the voice of Barbar...

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