Ordinary Unhappiness
A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now, featuring Abby Kluchin & Patrick Blanchfield
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- Dan5 eps
- Danielle Drori2 eps
- Chris Landry1 ep
Also: Loren Dent, Avgi Saketopoulou, Séamus Malekafzali, Jordy Rosenberg, Helen Epstein, Lara Sheehi, Stuart Schrader, Jack Hanson
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- 🇺🇸United States · PhilosophyHOME#21203K to 1.1M
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom · Philosophy#2611K to 56K
- 🇦🇺Australia · Philosophy#255.6K to 30K
- 🇩🇪Germany · Philosophy#404.2K to 22K
- 🇨🇦Canada · Philosophy#522.5K to 13K
- Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
240K to 1.3M🎙 ~2x weekly·174 episodes·Last published 1w ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
480K to 2.5M🇺🇸85%🇬🇧4%🇦🇺2%+4 more - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
264K to 1.4M
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/17/26 |  162: UberTherapy and Its Discontents feat. Elizabeth Cotton and Linda Michaels | Abby and Patrick are joined by Elizabeth Cotton, author of UberTherapy: The New Business of Mental Health, and Linda Michaels of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN), for a conversation about platform capitalism and datafication are reshaping psychotherapy, and how clinicians and patients can organize for safer, deeper care. From Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to venture capitalists to practice-management companies, and more, Elizabeth and Linda unpack how an unholy alliance of players have... | 1h 34m 16s | ||||||
| 10/10/26 |  UNLOCKED: 149: Myth, Fate, and Desire: Narcissism, Part 2 | Unlocked Patreon episode. Support Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon to get access to all the exclusive episodes. patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness Abby, Patrick, and Dan dig into the realms of myth and fable to investigate the ancient origins of the Narcissus myth. As they discover, behind the skeletal form of the story (i.e., guy falls in love with his own reflection) are a multitude of versions, with some striking variations and suggestive throughlines. After cataloguing these, they turn to the... | 1h 25m 53s | ||||||
| 10/3/26 |  161: Wild Analysis: Sunset Boulevard | Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness “No one leaves a star – that’s what makes one a star!” In the latest installment of Wild Analysis, Abby and Dan discuss Billy Wilder’s classic 1950 film, Sunset Boulevard. From Gloria Swanson’s masterful portrayal of faded starlet Norma Desmond to the film’s ruthless depiction of Hollywood’s love affair with youth and the very idea of movie magic itself, it’s a ... | 3m 18s | ||||||
| 9/26/26 |  160: Very Special Boys feat. Adrian Daub | Abby and Patrick welcome back returning guest Adrian Daub. The occasion is Adrian’s latest book, What Tech Calls Governing. A follow-up to his 2020 book What Tech Calls Thinking, an intellectual history of Silicon Valley and critique of tech culture, What Tech Calls Governing unpacks subsequent developments and continuities that go deeper than pundits’ loose talk of a “vibe shift.” Indeed, as Adrian explains, recent years have seen Big Tech abandon the rhetoric of not being “evil” and promise... | 1h 52m 03s | ||||||
| 9/19/26 |  159: Karen Horney: Narcissism, Part 7 Teaser | Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness The Ordinary Unhappiness journey through the landscape of modern narcissism continues – and arrives in the United States! In this episode, Abby, Patrick, and Dan turn to the work of Karen Horney, a figure who has variously been called a Neo-Freudian, a forerunner of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, a key player in a psychoanalytic “Cultural Turn,” and one of the fi... | 7m 51s | ||||||
| 9/12/26 |  158: On the Impossibility of Being a Real Man feat. Robin Dembroff | What does it mean to talk about “patriarchy” in the present? What are the origins of the term, its uses, and its limits? How has it impacted popular discourse, and why does it seem to have gone out of fashion in the academy? And in what ways might the term – and the concept – still hold untapped power? To tackle all these questions and more, Abby and Patrick welcome philosopher Robin Dembroff, author of the brilliant new book, Real Men on Top: How Patriarchy Shapes our Reality. Weaving togeth... | 1h 29m 16s | ||||||
| 9/5/26 | film analysiscultural anxieties+4 | — | Backrooms | — | BackroomsKane Parson+3 | — | 7m 31s | ||
| 8/29/26 | psychoanalysisSeptember 11+4 | — | — | — | psychoanalysisSeptember 11+4 | — | 2h 38m 36s | ||
| 8/22/26 | narcissismFreud+3 | — | On Narcissism: An Introduction | — | narcissismFreud+5 | — | 3m 15s | ||
| 8/15/26 | narcissismsexology+4 | — | Summer of Narcissism | late nineteenth century Europe | narcissismsexology+4 | — | 2h 08m 05s | ||
| 8/1/26 | narcissismearly modern period+3 | — | Roman Catholic Church | Europe | narcissismearly modern period+3 | — | 9m 50s | ||
| 7/25/26 | Catholic Churchpolitics+4 | Jack Hanson | Harper’s | — | Catholic Churchpolitics+5 | — | 1h 50m 42s | ||
| 7/18/26 | narcissismWestern history+3 | Dan | NarcissusChaucer’s Wife of Bath+3 | — | narcissismmyth of Narcissus+3 | — | 3m 13s | ||
| 7/4/26 | American policinghistory+3 | Stuart Schrader | Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves | — | policinghistory+3 | — | 1h 33m 48s | ||
| 6/27/26 | mythnarcissism+3 | Dan | Narcissus myth | — | Narcissusmyth+5 | — | 9m 40s | ||
| 6/20/26 | narcissismculture+4 | Dan | — | — | narcissismself-help+3 | — | 1h 28m 44s | ||
| 6/13/26 | griefcase study+4 | — | Studies on Hysteria | — | hysteriagrief+4 | — | 3m 13s | ||
| 5/30/26 | creativitysubjectivity+3 | — | Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena | — | Winnicottcreativity+4 | — | 7m 49s | ||
| 5/23/26 | psychoanalysisactivism+3 | Lara Sheehi | From the Clinic to The Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures | — | psychoanalysisactivism+4 | — | 1h 32m 27s | ||
| 5/16/26 | creativitysubjectivity+4 | Dan | Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena | — | Winnicotttransitional objects+5 | — | 4m 00s | ||
| 5/9/26 | creativitysubjectivity+4 | Dan | Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena | — | Winnicottcreativity+5 | — | 1h 39m 47s | ||
| 5/2/26 | Freud's treatmenthysteria+3 | — | Elizabeth von R | — | Freudhysteria+5 | — | 8m 34s | ||
| 4/25/26 | psychoanalysisLaplanche+4 | Danielle Drori | Brooklyn Institute for Social ResearchNew Foundations for Psychoanalysis | — | LaplancheFreud+5 | — | 1h 59m 25s | ||
| 4/18/26 | psychoanalysisphilosophy+4 | Chris Landry | YaleUniversity of Chicago+1 | — | Jonathan Learpsychoanalysis+5 | — | 8m 03s | ||
| 4/11/26 | psychoanalysiscommunity+4 | Loren Dent | Greene Clinic | — | psychoanalysiscommunity psychoanalysis+4 | — | 1h 19m 10s | ||
| 4/4/26 | Freud's techniquehysteria studies+3 | — | Elisabeth von R | — | Freudhysteria+5 | — | 4m 16s | ||
| 3/21/26 | politicspsychoanalysis+3 | Avgi Saketopoulou | — | IsraelPalestine | psychoanalysispolitics+6 | — | 1h 32m 46s | ||
| 3/14/26 | repressionresistance+4 | Séamus Malekafzali | United StatesIran | Middle East | repressionresistance+5 | — | 18m 00s | ||
| 3/7/26 | family historyideology+3 | Jordy Rosenberg | Night Night Fawn | — | Jordy RosenbergNight Night Fawn+3 | — | 1h 45m 04s | ||
| 2/28/26 | hysteriacourtship+3 | — | — | — | hysteriaElisabeth von R+4 | — | 4m 59s | ||
| 2/21/26 | suicideepidemics+3 | Helen Epstein | Bard CollegeWhy Live: How Suicide Becomes an Epidemic | — | suicideepidemics+5 | — | 1h 21m 04s | ||
| 2/14/26 | psychoanalysisLaplanche+3 | Danielle Drori | Brooklyn Institute for Social ResearchNew Foundations for Psychoanalysis | — | LaplancheFreud+4 | — | 8m 08s | ||
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Chart history for Ordinary Unhappiness
Peaked at #9 in SG, top 10 in 1 of 39 tracked markets, currently #9 in SG.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
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| SG | — | #9 | #9 | — |
| United States | — | #21 | #21 | — |
| Finland | — | #23 | #23 | — |
| MY | — | #23 | #23 | — |
| Australia | — | #25 | #25 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #26 | #26 | — |
| South Africa | — | #27 | #27 | — |
| GR | — | #28 | #28 | — |
| Norway | — | #29 | #29 | — |
| CZ | — | #30 | #30 | — |
| Ireland | — | #35 | #35 | — |
| Germany | — | #40 | #40 | — |
| Canada | — | #52 | #52 | — |
| AR | — | #52 | #52 | — |
| IL | — | #54 | #54 | — |
| Denmark | — | #55 | #55 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #62 | #62 | — |
| Brazil | — | #68 | #68 | — |
| CH | — | #70 | #70 | — |
| PL | — | #70 | #70 | — |
Chart Positions
39 placements across 38 markets.
Chart Positions
39 placements across 38 markets.