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13: The Journalist and the Analyst: On Janet Malcolm feat. Sam Adler-Bell

Ordinary Unhappiness

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The Parasocial Relationship of Listening to Psychoanalysis Podcasts

Know Your Enemy is just an amazing sort of artifact and enterprise because it manages to be both erudite yet accessible. And where Sam and Matt are capable of both expressing serious and morally-plangent, even moral feelings. All while doing that in a way that sometimes means that they put themselves in exquisitely vulnerable personal positions. But also, it's the case that Sam bears some direct responsibility for the existence of ordinary unhappiness.

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