Ordinary Unhappiness
@unhappinesspod.bsky.social
a podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now | hosted by @counterfactual.bsky.social and @patblanchfield.bsky.social
free episodes every other saturday; even more for subscribers at https://bit.ly/OrdinaryUnhappiness
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125: Demons, Community, and Conversion Therapy feat. Grace Byron - Ordinary Unhappiness
Abby and Patrick are joined by writer Grace Byron, author of the fantastic new novel Herculine. Alternately hilarious and terrifying, Herculine is the story of a young trans woman who leaves a frustra...
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🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 We're joined by the brilliant @emotrophywife.bsky.social, author of the superb novel Herculine! We talk utopian desire, separatist politics, the challenges of solidarity, pacts with demons (literal and otherwise), and much, much more! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
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I can confidently say that the best $5 a month I spend on myself is for the Ordinary Unhappiness patreon. It's a podcast about psychoanalysis and politics/culture with warm and fascinating hosts, and brilliant guests. They're doing 20% off their annual membership and I promise it's worth every penny
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December 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I can confidently say that the best $5 a month I spend on myself is for the Ordinary Unhappiness patreon. It's a podcast about psychoanalysis and politics/culture with warm and fascinating hosts, and brilliant guests. They're doing 20% off their annual membership and I promise it's worth every penny
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just resubscribed
it's so good
membership drive! 20% annual memberships
it's so good
membership drive! 20% annual memberships
Update: morbid symptoms can't hold us back - we're doubling down on what we do best.
Please consider supporting @unhappinesspod.bsky.social's Higher Ed Death Spiral Membership Drive! 20% off annual memberships; use code 9E144.
Note: the spiral is ongoing but the drive ends on 12/31.
Please consider supporting @unhappinesspod.bsky.social's Higher Ed Death Spiral Membership Drive! 20% off annual memberships; use code 9E144.
Note: the spiral is ongoing but the drive ends on 12/31.
Higher Ed Death Spiral Membership Drive | Ordinary Unhappiness
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December 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
just resubscribed
it's so good
membership drive! 20% annual memberships
it's so good
membership drive! 20% annual memberships
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Ordinary Unhappiness is the rare podcast that manages to be both intellectually challenging and laugh-out-loud funny. A true gem worth listening to, supporting, and sharing
Friends! Here's an update from @counterfactual.bsky.social with news about our brand new, limited-time-only Higher Ed Death Spiral Membership Drive.
Note: the Death Spiral is ongoing, but our Membership Drive only lasts until 12/31/25!
Note: the Death Spiral is ongoing, but our Membership Drive only lasts until 12/31/25!
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December 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Ordinary Unhappiness is the rare podcast that manages to be both intellectually challenging and laugh-out-loud funny. A true gem worth listening to, supporting, and sharing
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Calling all Freudians, Lacanians, Kleinians, etc. Check out @unhappinesspod.bsky.social, now in their higher education death spiral campaign. Support their amazing work if you can!
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December 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Calling all Freudians, Lacanians, Kleinians, etc. Check out @unhappinesspod.bsky.social, now in their higher education death spiral campaign. Support their amazing work if you can!
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sidenote: if you are a person who has ever had anything that a 19th century man with a beard and a cigar would describe as "hysterical symptoms" you WILL listen to some of the Standard Edition episodes and go sit and stare at the wall for a few hours. but, like. in a good, useful, productive way
December 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
sidenote: if you are a person who has ever had anything that a 19th century man with a beard and a cigar would describe as "hysterical symptoms" you WILL listen to some of the Standard Edition episodes and go sit and stare at the wall for a few hours. but, like. in a good, useful, productive way
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i would have never explored Freud's case studies without being an OU member. it's a cliche but i honestly do feel enriched -- i know so much more about Freud (in all his complexity), his colleagues, the history of psychology, 19th century European society, and myself. cannot recommend highly enough
Friends! Here's an update from @counterfactual.bsky.social with news about our brand new, limited-time-only Higher Ed Death Spiral Membership Drive.
Note: the Death Spiral is ongoing, but our Membership Drive only lasts until 12/31/25!
Note: the Death Spiral is ongoing, but our Membership Drive only lasts until 12/31/25!
Higher Ed Death Spiral Membership Drive | Ordinary Unhappiness
Get more from Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon
ordinaryunhappiness.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
i would have never explored Freud's case studies without being an OU member. it's a cliche but i honestly do feel enriched -- i know so much more about Freud (in all his complexity), his colleagues, the history of psychology, 19th century European society, and myself. cannot recommend highly enough
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My friends at @unhappinesspod.bsky.social are doing a membership drive - 20% off (of your cost, of your symptoms) annual memberships. Psychoanalysis, culture, politics, and of course charming personalities. What more could you want?
Update: morbid symptoms can't hold us back - we're doubling down on what we do best.
Please consider supporting @unhappinesspod.bsky.social's Higher Ed Death Spiral Membership Drive! 20% off annual memberships; use code 9E144.
Note: the spiral is ongoing but the drive ends on 12/31.
Please consider supporting @unhappinesspod.bsky.social's Higher Ed Death Spiral Membership Drive! 20% off annual memberships; use code 9E144.
Note: the spiral is ongoing but the drive ends on 12/31.
Higher Ed Death Spiral Membership Drive | Ordinary Unhappiness
Get more from Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon
ordinaryunhappiness.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
My friends at @unhappinesspod.bsky.social are doing a membership drive - 20% off (of your cost, of your symptoms) annual memberships. Psychoanalysis, culture, politics, and of course charming personalities. What more could you want?
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This is a fantastic, vital podcast. Help keep it going!
Friends! Here's an update from @counterfactual.bsky.social with news about our brand new, limited-time-only Higher Ed Death Spiral Membership Drive.
Note: the Death Spiral is ongoing, but our Membership Drive only lasts until 12/31/25!
Note: the Death Spiral is ongoing, but our Membership Drive only lasts until 12/31/25!
Higher Ed Death Spiral Membership Drive | Ordinary Unhappiness
Get more from Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon
ordinaryunhappiness.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is a fantastic, vital podcast. Help keep it going!
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tu tremblerais bien davantage si tu savais où je vais te mener!
December 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
tu tremblerais bien davantage si tu savais où je vais te mener!
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I'm sure it's a sophisticated psychoanalytic joke that one of the membership tier benefits that @unhappinesspod.bsky.social offers is "we'll follow you on instagram" but fortunately it's also amusing for the unsophisticated likes of me
December 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I'm sure it's a sophisticated psychoanalytic joke that one of the membership tier benefits that @unhappinesspod.bsky.social offers is "we'll follow you on instagram" but fortunately it's also amusing for the unsophisticated likes of me
Friends! Here's an update from @counterfactual.bsky.social with news about our brand new, limited-time-only Higher Ed Death Spiral Membership Drive.
Note: the Death Spiral is ongoing, but our Membership Drive only lasts until 12/31/25!
Note: the Death Spiral is ongoing, but our Membership Drive only lasts until 12/31/25!
Higher Ed Death Spiral Membership Drive | Ordinary Unhappiness
Get more from Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon
ordinaryunhappiness.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Friends! Here's an update from @counterfactual.bsky.social with news about our brand new, limited-time-only Higher Ed Death Spiral Membership Drive.
Note: the Death Spiral is ongoing, but our Membership Drive only lasts until 12/31/25!
Note: the Death Spiral is ongoing, but our Membership Drive only lasts until 12/31/25!
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Abby, Patrick, and Dan of @unhappinesspod.bsky.social are some of the most intellectually generous people I know—models of public scholarship and community building that I strive to emulate. They’re also just delightful to listen to. Consider subscribing: ordinaryunhappiness.com?utm_campaign...
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December 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Abby, Patrick, and Dan of @unhappinesspod.bsky.social are some of the most intellectually generous people I know—models of public scholarship and community building that I strive to emulate. They’re also just delightful to listen to. Consider subscribing: ordinaryunhappiness.com?utm_campaign...
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markets are efficient and the best way to get people what they want. in fact, the only reason you can't get RAM, Quaaludes, or a living wage is because of a guy we in the Economics profession call "the Grinch"
December 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
markets are efficient and the best way to get people what they want. in fact, the only reason you can't get RAM, Quaaludes, or a living wage is because of a guy we in the Economics profession call "the Grinch"
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No more excuses for not having read *the* book of the year on the working poor & homelessness. A book that fundamentally challenges the conventional definition of "homeless," one that shines a light on exploitation & profitmaking out of all of this and does so through powerful, personal stories.
If cost has kept you from picking up There Is No Place for Us (which is totally understandable), good news: the ebook is *$1.99* today—93% off!—on Kindle, B&N, Bookshop, and elsewhere.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
There Is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone: 9780593237144 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark...
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December 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
No more excuses for not having read *the* book of the year on the working poor & homelessness. A book that fundamentally challenges the conventional definition of "homeless," one that shines a light on exploitation & profitmaking out of all of this and does so through powerful, personal stories.
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I've had "I should start listening to Ordinary Unhappiness, this seems like my jam" on my list for a while now; this got me to download immediately, awesome topics.
December 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I've had "I should start listening to Ordinary Unhappiness, this seems like my jam" on my list for a while now; this got me to download immediately, awesome topics.
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 We're joined by the brilliant @emotrophywife.bsky.social, author of the superb novel Herculine! We talk utopian desire, separatist politics, the challenges of solidarity, pacts with demons (literal and otherwise), and much, much more! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
125: Demons, Community, and Conversion Therapy feat. Grace Byron - Ordinary Unhappiness
Abby and Patrick are joined by writer Grace Byron, author of the fantastic new novel Herculine. Alternately hilarious and terrifying, Herculine is the story of a young trans woman who leaves a frustra...
www.buzzsprout.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 We're joined by the brilliant @emotrophywife.bsky.social, author of the superb novel Herculine! We talk utopian desire, separatist politics, the challenges of solidarity, pacts with demons (literal and otherwise), and much, much more! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
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If cost has kept you from picking up There Is No Place for Us (which is totally understandable), good news: the ebook is *$1.99* today—93% off!—on Kindle, B&N, Bookshop, and elsewhere.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
There Is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone: 9780593237144 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
If cost has kept you from picking up There Is No Place for Us (which is totally understandable), good news: the ebook is *$1.99* today—93% off!—on Kindle, B&N, Bookshop, and elsewhere.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
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in the latest @unhappinesspod.bsky.social we opened a mailbag of (delightful) questions from our (amazing) listeners! also I made the case for why the Singularity/AGI will only happen if we torture AI into an awareness wherein it yearns for death and/or vows to kill us all
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 How can psychoanalytic concepts help us in our everyday lives? What fantasies drive people to seek advice from chatbots? And what's the libidinal economy of Hallmark Christmas movies? All this and more in our latest mailbag ep!
www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
124: Mailbag: Uses of Theory and AI Grinchiness Teaser - Ordinary Unhappiness
Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessIt’s another mailbag episode (part one of two)! Abby, Patrick, and D...
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December 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
in the latest @unhappinesspod.bsky.social we opened a mailbag of (delightful) questions from our (amazing) listeners! also I made the case for why the Singularity/AGI will only happen if we torture AI into an awareness wherein it yearns for death and/or vows to kill us all
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 How can psychoanalytic concepts help us in our everyday lives? What fantasies drive people to seek advice from chatbots? And what's the libidinal economy of Hallmark Christmas movies? All this and more in our latest mailbag ep!
www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
124: Mailbag: Uses of Theory and AI Grinchiness Teaser - Ordinary Unhappiness
Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessIt’s another mailbag episode (part one of two)! Abby, Patrick, and D...
www.buzzsprout.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 How can psychoanalytic concepts help us in our everyday lives? What fantasies drive people to seek advice from chatbots? And what's the libidinal economy of Hallmark Christmas movies? All this and more in our latest mailbag ep!
www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
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much has been made of the little puns with which Lacan disrupted the intense atmosphere of seriousness within his lecture hall, the so-called "non du pere" of the "nom du pere," but less has been said about his snacks, the "nom nom nom du pere" sound Lacan would make as he smacked his chops-
December 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
much has been made of the little puns with which Lacan disrupted the intense atmosphere of seriousness within his lecture hall, the so-called "non du pere" of the "nom du pere," but less has been said about his snacks, the "nom nom nom du pere" sound Lacan would make as he smacked his chops-
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The new @unhappinesspod.bsky.social with @sexbeyondbinaries.bsky.social is a good one.
www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
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123: Polymorphous Perversity and Gender Pleasure feat. Lucie Fielding - Ordinary Unhappiness
Abby and Patrick are joined by therapist and sexuality educator Lucie Fielding. First, the three talk about Lucie’s path to clinical work and the significance of her book, Trans Sex, just out in a rev...
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December 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The new @unhappinesspod.bsky.social with @sexbeyondbinaries.bsky.social is a good one.
www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
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Absolutely stunned and honored to see THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US on this list.
I'm grateful beyond words to the five families who trusted me with their stories and allowed me to witness their struggle to secure a home.
I'm grateful beyond words to the five families who trusted me with their stories and allowed me to witness their struggle to secure a home.
The 10 Best Books of 2025
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December 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Absolutely stunned and honored to see THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US on this list.
I'm grateful beyond words to the five families who trusted me with their stories and allowed me to witness their struggle to secure a home.
I'm grateful beyond words to the five families who trusted me with their stories and allowed me to witness their struggle to secure a home.
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Thanks so much for sharing this. That @unhappinesspod.bsky.social conversation was one I really cherished.
November 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Thanks so much for sharing this. That @unhappinesspod.bsky.social conversation was one I really cherished.
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Heard @brian-goldstone.bsky.social on @unhappinesspod.bsky.social a few months ago and this stat has been on my mind since.
It is not possible for min wage workers to work their way into housing in the rich rich USA
Great if enraging and disturbing episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
It is not possible for min wage workers to work their way into housing in the rich rich USA
Great if enraging and disturbing episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
November 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Heard @brian-goldstone.bsky.social on @unhappinesspod.bsky.social a few months ago and this stat has been on my mind since.
It is not possible for min wage workers to work their way into housing in the rich rich USA
Great if enraging and disturbing episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
It is not possible for min wage workers to work their way into housing in the rich rich USA
Great if enraging and disturbing episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We're joined by brilliant therapist and sex educator Lucie Fielding (@sexbeyondbinaries.bsky.social)! We talk the new edition of her book Trans Sex, tackle Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, polymorphous perversity, pleasure, and more!
www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
123: Polymorphous Perversity and Gender Pleasure feat. Lucie Fielding - Ordinary Unhappiness
Abby and Patrick are joined by therapist and sexuality educator Lucie Fielding. First, the three talk about Lucie’s path to clinical work and the significance of her book, Trans Sex, just out in a rev...
www.buzzsprout.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We're joined by brilliant therapist and sex educator Lucie Fielding (@sexbeyondbinaries.bsky.social)! We talk the new edition of her book Trans Sex, tackle Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, polymorphous perversity, pleasure, and more!
www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...