I learned so much from our @unhappinesspod.bsky.social conversation with the great Tom Wooldridge, whose new book from @routledgebooks.bsky.social is nonpareil in its clarity, accessibility, depth, and scope. definitely check out our conversation - and buy the book! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 166: Eating Disorders and Psychoanalysis feat. Tom Wooldridge | Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick welcome psychoanalyst Tom Wooldridge, author of Eating Disorders, a new volume in Routledge’s Introductions to Contemporary

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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 What can a psychoanalytic perspective bring to the understanding and treatment of eating disorders? Tom Wooldridge, author of a fantastic new volume from @routledgebooks.bsky.social, joins us to talk alexithymia, object hunger, abjection, and more. www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 166: Eating Disorders and Psychoanalysis feat. Tom Wooldridge | Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick welcome psychoanalyst Tom Wooldridge, author of Eating Disorders, a new volume in Routledge’s Introductions to Contemporary

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gerontophallocracy rides again, and boy were we all feeling some kind of punchy

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🚨 Surprise: Saturday’s come early this week – our Gerontophallocracy 2026 mid-terms episode is out on Patreon now! 🚨 www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

🚨 Surprise: Saturday’s come early this week – our Gerontophallocracy 2026 mid-terms episode is out on Patreon now! 🚨 www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

between conferences this weekend, so we're unlocking Narcissism #2: we go back to ancient Greece and Rome, explore versions of the story of Narcissus and his doomed encounter with Echo, and talk desire, frustration, family transgression, and more! ordinaryunhappiness.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

UNLOCKED: 149: Myth, Fate, and Desire: Narcissism, Part 2 - Ordinary Unhappiness

Unlocked Patreon episode. Support Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon to get access to all the exclusive episodes. patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby, Patrick, and Dan dig into the realms of myth and fab...

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I just finished listening, and, now, I also feel lucky that @counterfactual.bsky.social asked Adrian to tell listeners where to find him, and I’m about to check out podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

In Bed With The Right

Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Weekly · On In Bed With the Right hosts Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub welcome a range of scholars and critics to analyze right wing ideas about gender, sex and sexu...

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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 What is wrong with our tech overlords? How did Silicon Valley's promises of progress and uplift flip into the sneering celebration of dominance? The great @adriandaub.bsky.social returns to unpack the current political and libidinal economy of Big Tech www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 160: Very Special Boys feat. Adrian Daub | Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick welcome back returning guest Adrian Daub. The occasion is Adrian’s latest book, What Tech Calls Governing. A follow-up to h

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Patriarchy is not only a system in which men dominate women; it is a grammar that teaches people how to see the world. As our podcast of the week details, the concept makes hierarchy and injustice appear as natural. With Robin Dembroff on @unhappinesspod.bsky.social buff.ly/d0tahRS

reading karen horney is alternately delightful and a gut punch; so glad we could explore some of her work on the latest @unhappinesspod.bsky.social

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🚨NEW PATREON EPISODE🚨 Summer may be over, but our Narcissism series continues! We take up the work of the brilliant Karen Horney, who rejected Freud's sexism and libido theory in favor of thinking about the self, the family, US cultural norms, and more. www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

🚨NEW PATREON EPISODE🚨 Summer may be over, but our Narcissism series continues! We take up the work of the brilliant Karen Horney, who rejected Freud's sexism and libido theory in favor of thinking about the self, the family, US cultural norms, and more. www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 159: Karen Horney: Narcissism, Part 7 | Ordinary Unhappiness

The Ordinary Unhappiness journey through the landscape of modern narcissism continues – and arrives in the United States! In this episode, A

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still buzzing from our @unhappinesspod.bsky.social conversation with Robin Dembroff, whose book "Real Men On Top" is just fantastic too CC @academic.oup.com global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Can anyone ever be a "real man"? Why are conversations about "the crisis of masculinity" so repetitive and shallow? Robin Dembroff explains how fantasies of manhood function and how patriarchy harms everybody - including men themselves. www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Can anyone ever be a "real man"? Why are conversations about "the crisis of masculinity" so repetitive and shallow? Robin Dembroff explains how fantasies of manhood function and how patriarchy harms everybody - including men themselves. www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 158: On the Impossibility of Being a Real Man feat. Robin Dembroff | Ordinary Unhappiness

What does it mean to talk about “patriarchy” in the present? What are the origins of the term, its uses, and its limits? How has it impacted

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🚨PATREON-ONLY EP🚨 from liminality to the uncanny to creepypastas to COVID to AI and the sheer terror of interiority itself, we give "Backrooms" the Wild Analysis treatment! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 157: Wild Analysis: Backrooms | Ordinary Unhappiness

Episode 157: Wild Analysis: Backrooms by Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon. Join Ordinary Unhappiness's community for exclusive content and updates.

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a new chapter for us: new tiers, new content, and more!!! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

new tiers, a window to lock in current prices, and more OU news | Ordinary Unhappiness

Hello, friends! We hope you’re doing well as Summer of Narcissism turns into…Pumpkin Spice Narcissism Season? (That title is a work in progr

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I also want to plug the remarkable photography and prose of my dear friend and frequent collaborator @simko-bednarski.bsky.social, whose porfolio of photos - about New York and so many other things - you can find here www.simkobednarskiphoto.com/memento-mori

9/11 memento mori - Evan Simko-Bednarski's portfolio - Evan Simko-Bednarski's Portfolio

Website of photographer Evan Simko-Bednarski

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I wanted to express particular appreciation for the indispensable writing of @attackerman.bsky.social, whom we cite throughout and focus on in particular in the last third, and to the perspective of Andrew Bacevich of @quincyinst.bsky.social. links to read and buy their works are in the description

we don't normally release in-depth political episodes outside the paywall, but given the significance of the event itself, the work we three put in, and the many, many people whose works we cite we wanted to make this one available as widely as possible. do please consider checking it out

for the latest @unhappinesspod.bsky.social, we scoured the archives and dredged up memories personal and collective, famous and forgotten, to reckon with what happened on 9/11/2001, what that event came to mean, and how that's still shaping the world we live in today www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 156: 9/11: Chosen Traumas and Time Collapse | Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick bring a psychoanalytic lens to bear on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. As they

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🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨Did 9/11 really "change everything"? Why do some events become history, and how do we know when that's happening? How do "chosen traumas" work as political touchstones, weaponize logics of identity, and even warp time itself? www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 156: 9/11: Chosen Traumas and Time Collapse | Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick bring a psychoanalytic lens to bear on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. As they

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new @unhappinesspod.bsky.social Summer of Narcissism content! we read and break down one of Freud's single most difficult papers so you don't have to

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🚨NEW PATREON-ONLY EP 🚨 When is narcissism normal - and maybe even necessary? We read Freud's paper, On Narcissism (1914). Dated and reprehensible in some respects, prescient and humane in others, it's classic Freud, and still provocative today. www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

🚨NEW PATREON-ONLY EP 🚨 When is narcissism normal - and maybe even necessary? We read Freud's paper, On Narcissism (1914). Dated and reprehensible in some respects, prescient and humane in others, it's classic Freud, and still provocative today. www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 155: Freud’s “On Narcissism”: Narcissism, Part 6 | Ordinary Unhappiness

The Summer of Narcissism brings Abby, Patrick, and Dan to Freud’s landmark 1914 essay, “On Narcissism: An Introduction.” While the sexologis

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unrelated to what's going on in your feed (but also definitely actually related), the @unhappinesspod.bsky.social Summer of Narcissism series has gotten to a key point (the birth of modern narcissism as such!!!). we're having a blast - check it out! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 154: Let’s Talk About Sex(ology): Narcissism, Part 5 | Ordinary Unhappiness

The Summer of Narcissism journey brings Abby, Patrick, and Dan to late nineteenth century Europe, and to the revolutionary and controversial

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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Summer of Narcissism continues! We explore the world of Victorian sexology, its controversies over auto-eroticism and sexual orientation, and witness the birth of the modern concept of narcissism itself! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 154: Let’s Talk About Sex(ology): Narcissism, Part 5 | Ordinary Unhappiness

The Summer of Narcissism journey brings Abby, Patrick, and Dan to late nineteenth century Europe, and to the revolutionary and controversial

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🚨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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🚨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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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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🚨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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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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“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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