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15: Diagnosis and Identity: Mailbag Episode!
Episode 15
Abby, Patrick, and Dan take your calls! They spend the bulk of the episode on a fascinating question about whether or not it is important to know you…
2 years, 11 months ago
14: Standard Edition Volume I Part 1: Freud Goes to Paris Teaser
Episode 14
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In this second ep…
2 years, 11 months ago
13: The Journalist and the Analyst: On Janet Malcolm feat. Sam Adler-Bell
Episode 13
Abby and Patrick welcome journalist and critic Sam Adler-Bell, co-host of Dissent magazine’s Know Your Enemy podcast. They talk about how Sam came to…
3 years ago
UNLOCKED: Short Session 1 - Transference, continued
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Continuing the conversation on transfer…
3 years ago
12: From Parties to Projective Identification: Why is Group Life so Hard? feat. Christine Smallwood
Episode 12
Abby and Patrick welcome novelist and literary critic Christine Smallwood, author of The Life of the Mind. They discuss the novel’s protagonist Dorot…
3 years ago
11: Succession: Oedipus and Failsons
Episode 11
Abby, Patrick, and Dan get into the great Oedipal drama of our times: Succession. They discuss a ludicrously capacious number of versions of the Oedi…
3 years ago
10: Wild Analysis: Problematic Faves and the Anxiety of Influence Teaser
Episode 10
The three of us talk problematic faves, guilty pleasures, comfort food (literal and metaphorical), and the dangers of nostalgia. We focus on thinkers…
3 years, 1 month ago
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…
3 years, 1 month ago
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…
3 years, 1 month ago
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 …
3 years, 1 month ago