Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick welcome Hannah Zeavin and Alex Colston, founders of the Psychosocial Foundation and Parapraxis magazine. The four discuss their paths to psychoanalysis; speculate about why Freud is back (or if he ever really left); and offer copious reading suggestions! Plus, Hannah talks about being both the child of analysts and a historian of psychoanalysis and Alex discusses his status as a “faithless Lacanian” and its implications for clinical practice.https://www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/Reading suggestions in the order that they were offered:Lisa Appignanesi & John Forrester, Freud’s WomenJohn Forrester, Freud & Psychoanalysis: Six Introductory Lectures (new edition forthcoming)Camille Robcis, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar FranceDaniel José Gaztambide, A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation PsychologySigmund Freud, “Mourning and Melancholia”Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on PsychoanalysisSigmund Freud, “Observations on Transference-Love”Jacqueline Rose, “Where Does the Misery Come From? Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and The Event”Sigmund Freud, “Fragment of An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria” (AKA the “Dora” case study)Sigmund Freud, “Analysis Terminable and Interminable”Malcom Bowie, LacanShoshana Felman, Lacan and the Adventure of InsightJonathan Culler, The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, DeconstructionSigmund Freud, Totem and TabooSigmund Freud, The Interpretation of DreamsWilfred Bion, Experiences in Groups and Other PapersJordy Rosenberg, “Gender Trouble on Mother’s Day”Jonathan Culler, “Story and Discourse in the Analysis of Narrative”Have you noticed that Freud is back? Got questions about psychoanalysis? Or maybe you’ve traversed the fantasy and lived to tell the tale? Leave us a voicemail! 484 775-0107  A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now. New episodes on Saturdays. Follow us on social media:  Linktree: https://linktr.ee/OrdinaryUnhappiness Twitter: @UnhappinessPod Instagram: @OrdinaryUnhappiness Patreon: patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness Theme song: Formal Chicken - Gnossienne No. 1 https://open.spotify.com/album/2MIIYnbyLqriV3vrpUTxxO Provided by Fruits Music

Abby, Patrick, and Dan talk about transference in Freud’s essays on analytic technique and at your local bar; what resistance is and how it manifests in different ways; analytic neutrality; what you should say to the friend who keeps getting stuck in the same relationship over and over; why people want to have a beer with the president; and whether any kind of love at all is realHave you noticed that Freud is back? Got questions about psychoanalysis? Or maybe you’ve traversed the fantasy and lived to tell the tale? Leave us a voicemail! 484 775-0107  A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now. New episodes on Saturdays. Follow us on social media: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/OrdinaryUnhappiness Twitter: @UnhappinessPod Instagram: @OrdinaryUnhappiness Patreon: patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness Theme song: Formal Chicken - Gnossienne No. 1 https://open.spotify.com/album/2MIIYnbyLqriV3vrpUTxxO Provided by Fruits Music

Abby and Patrick talk about the position of “the subject-supposed-to-know” and how they anxiously inhabit it; Anna O., the “talking cure” and the founding of psychoanalysis; and different ways to explain what psychoanalysis is and why it’s impossible for them to think without itHave you noticed that Freud is back? Got questions about psychoanalysis? Or maybe you’ve traversed the fantasy and lived to tell the tale? Leave us a voicemail! 484 775-0107A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now. New episodes on Saturdays. Follow us on social media:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/OrdinaryUnhappinessTwitter: @UnhappinessPodInstagram: @OrdinaryUnhappinessPatreon: patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessTheme song:Formal Chicken - Gnossienne No. 1https://open.spotify.com/album/2MIIYnbyLqriV3vrpUTxxOProvided by Fruits Music