🚨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...
🚨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.
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🚨 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...
some lovely news: our own @counterfactual.bsky.social is a 2026 Marc Sanders Foundation Philosophy in Media Fellow! marcsandersfoundation.org/philosophy-i...
The logic of desire means that you will never truly get what you want. But sometimes you get what you didn’t even know you needed.
This is one of those times.
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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!
🚨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...
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
🚨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...
🚨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
It's such a wonderful essay! @jordyrosenberg.bsky.social 's new book just came out and it's incredible - we will be discussing it w him on this Saturday's @unhappinesspod.bsky.social !
on the topic of judith butler, i’ve read this essay 3x this week
thank you to @counterfactual.bsky.social for introducing it to me!!
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the boys are back in town but that town is omelas
my latest column in @nplusonemag.com: on Iran, the Millennium Challenge of 2002, why no one wants to learn anything, and how the repressed returns regardless www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
🚨NEW STANDARD EDITION🚨 We continue the case of Elisabeth von R! On the cusp of romance with a promising young suitor, a family crisis and feelings of guilt leave Elisabeth in bitter disappointment and trapped by punishing double binds.
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 How do material conditions relate to individual distress - and what happens when communities experience traumatic political and economic change? Author Helen C. Epstein joins us to talk about suicide epidemics, community, PTSD, and more
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 It's part two of our intro to Jean Laplanche! Danielle Drori of brooklyninstitute.bsky.social joins us to talk "New Foundations for Psychoanalysis," moving beyond Freud's Oedipal and seduction theories, the stakes of parenting and therapy, and more! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We're joined by the brilliant Danielle Drori of @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social for the first in a two part series on the work and legacy of psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
🚨NEW WILD ANALYSIS🚨 It's our Heated Rivalry episode! From group psychology to the psychoanalysis of professional sports to the cultural work of fantasy, play, recognition, and more, we go big! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
🚨BONUS EPISODE🚨 @counterfactual.bsky.social cial joins @moiradonegan.bsky.social and @adriandaub.bsky.social on @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social to talk romantasy, fantasy, and trauma!
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Friends! We're delighted to joining @medicinered.bsky.social's "Anti-Self-Helpline" next week! Write in questions, comments, and reflections on your experiences of political struggle so we can discuss them and take seriously their psychic and emotional content!
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Abby and Patrick are going to be joining for the February edition of the Anti-Self-Helpline! Write in if you’d like to have them respond to your questions and reflections!
And likewise brand new and excellent is his Last Week in End Times Cinema, out via @mitpress.bsky.social! mitpress.mit.edu/978163590268...
Be sure to check out @hamrahrama.bsky.social's brand new collection of film writing, "Algorithm of the Night" via
@nplusonemag.com! shop.nplusonemag.com/products/alg...
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 The great film critic and author
@hamrahrama.bsky.social joins us to talk movies, moviegoing, moviemaking, and the significance of cinema itself in our era of streaming, "second screen content," and a dystopian landscape made possible by reality TV.
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incredibly excited and honored to be joining @rooseveltinstitute.org as a 2026 Fellow!
🚨NEW STANDARD EDITION🚨 We continue the case of Elisabeth von R! Tragedies mount, family fragmentations multiply, and a dark parental secret emerges. www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
You can read @lilyscherlis.bsky.social's fascinating reportage of her experiences at a Tavistock groups event in @nplusonemag.com at www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...
🚨UNLOCKED🚨 As a coda to our series on projective identification, we're unlocking the brilliant @lilyscherlis.bsky.social, @counterfactual.bsky.social, and Dan talking “group relations" in general and for leftists in particular, the legacies of Bion, and much more! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 How does projective identification work in groups? We talk group dynamics from marriage to classrooms to corporations to American mass incarceration and beyond. It's Part II of our Projective Identification series with Brian Ngo-Smith!
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