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Ordinary Unhappiness

by Abby Kluchin, Patrick Blanchfield, and Dan Yowell

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Abby and Patrick are joined by Elizabeth Cotton, author of UberTherapy: The New Business of Mental Health, and Linda Michaels of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN), for a conversation about platform capitalism and datafication are…
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October 10, 2026 · 1 hr 26 min

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161: Wild Analysis: Sunset Boulevard

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Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness “No one leaves a star – that’s what makes one a star!” In the latest installment of Wild Analysis, Abby…
160: Very Special Boys feat. Adrian Daub

September 26, 2026 · 1 hr 52 min

Abby and Patrick welcome back returning guest Adrian Daub. The occasion is Adrian’s latest book, What Tech Calls Governing. A follow-up to his 2020 book What Tech Calls Thinking, an intellectual history of Silicon Valley and critique of…
159: Karen Horney: Narcissism, Part 7 Teaser

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158: On the Impossibility of Being a Real Man feat. Robin Dembroff

September 12, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min

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157: Wild Analysis: Backrooms Teaser

September 5, 2026 · 8 min

Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness Abby, Patrick, and Dan venture deep into the labyrinthine warrens of Kane Parson’s smash-hit movie…
156: 9/11: Chosen Traumas and Time Collapse

August 29, 2026 · 2 hr 39 min

Abby and Patrick bring a psychoanalytic lens to bear on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. As they explain, psychoanalysis offers tools for thinking both about specific political conditions and…
155: Freud’s “On Narcissism”: Narcissism, Part 6 Teaser

August 22, 2026 · 3 min

Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness The Summer of Narcissism brings Abby, Patrick, and Dan to Freud’s landmark 1914 essay, “On Narcissism: An…
154: Let’s Talk About Sex(ology): Narcissism, Part 5

August 15, 2026 · 2 hr 8 min

The Summer of Narcissism journey brings Abby, Patrick, and Dan to late nineteenth century Europe, and to the revolutionary and controversial new discourse of sexology. Emerging at the intersections of medicine, anthropology, public health…
153: Everyone’s Looking at You and You’re Probably Going to Hell: Narcissism, Part 4 Teaser

August 1, 2026 · 10 min

Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness The Ordinary Unhappiness journey through the origins of narcissism arrives at the early modern period and…
152: The Pope, the Church, and the Politics of Progress feat. Jack Hanson

July 25, 2026 · 1 hr 51 min

Abby and Patrick welcome writer, critic, and religion scholar Jack Hanson for an in-depth and wide-ranging conversation about the politics and social significance of the contemporary Catholic Church. With Jack’s new piece in Harper’s…