🚨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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last day for 20% off annual memberships at all tiers!
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We're joined by the great Brian Ngo-Smith for a conversation about one of the most difficult but powerful concepts in psychoanalysis: projective identification. We go from development to pathology, from Freud to Klein to Bion, and more! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
🚨NEW MAILBAG🚨 We field listener questions about psychoanalysis and Buddhism; Melanie Klein; what a "master signifier" is and whether the Left needs one; the discourse about limerence and "person addiction"; precarity, education, and much, much more
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Great podcast and she deserves more followers (and a good job)
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!
We also talked about Grace's vital piece on conversion therapy in @parapraxismag.bsky.social (www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/idl...) as well as her trenchant writing on exorcism and possession in @thebaffler.com (thebaffler.com/latest/repos...)!
🚨 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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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
