Podcast Episodes

09: The Pleasure of the Text: The Standard Edition

Episode 9

Abby and Patrick introduce a new series: the Standard Edition. That’s right; they’re going to read and discuss the entire Standard Edition of the Com…

2 years, 11 months ago

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08: Political Economy, Libidinal Economy

Episode 8

Abby puts Patrick on the hot seat to talk psychoanalysis and politics. They discuss how psychoanalytic concepts can help bypass partisan political ex…

2 years, 11 months ago

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07: Kettle Logic and Family Secrets: The Uncanny, Part II

Episode 7

Abby and Patrick return to Freud’s idea of the “uncanny” as an unconventional path to their real target: the unconscious. They talk about the limits …

2 years, 11 months ago

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06: Unheimlich Maneuver: The Uncanny, Part I

Episode 6

Abby, Patrick, and Dan sneak up on the idea of the unconscious by tackling Freud’s concept of the “uncanny,” and its relationship to anxiety, fear, a…

3 years ago

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05: Wild Analysis: Mailbag Episode! Teaser

Episode 5

We take your calls and talk about dream interpretation, professional ethics, and visions of therapy for the world we live in versus the world we want…

3 years ago

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03: Bonus Content: Short session I - Transference, continued Teaser

Episode 3

Continuing the conversation on transference started in Episode 2, Patrick and Dan discuss free guitars, transference as defense, magical thinking, an…

3 years ago

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04: Guess Who’s Back, Back Again (It’s Freud) feat. Hannah Zeavin and Alex Colston

Episode 4

Abby and Patrick welcome Hannah Zeavin and Alex Colston, founders of the Psychosocial Foundation and Parapraxis magazine. The four discuss their path…

3 years ago

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02: Transference

Episode 2

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…

3 years ago

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01: What is Psychoanalysis?

Episode 1

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 fou…

3 years, 1 month ago

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