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Hannah Zeavin

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 &amp; John Forrester, Freud’s WomenJohn Forrester, Freud &amp; 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 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.<a href="https://www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/</a> <a href="https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/</a> Reading suggestions in the order that they were offered: Lisa Appignanesi &amp; John Forrester, Freud’s WomenJohn Forrester, Freud &amp; 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: <a href="https://linktr.ee/ordinaryunhappiness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/OrdinaryUnhappiness</a> Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/unhappinesspod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@UnhappinessPod</a> Instagram: <a href="https://instagram.com/ordinaryunhappiness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@OrdinaryUnhappiness</a> Patreon: <a href="http://patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness</a> Theme song: Formal Chicken - Gnossienne No. 1 <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2MIIYnbyLqriV3vrpUTxxO" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/album/2MIIYnbyLqriV3vrpUTxxO</a> Provided by Fruits Music

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

Modern conservatives have long asked the following questions: how can we live together without God? Is there any substitute for religion in cohering a moral community? And if not, what can we do to revive the old sacred authority that reason, science, and liberalism have interred?These were also  the questions that preoccupied Philip Rieff (1922-2006), an idiosyncratic sociologist and product of the University of Chicago, whose thought cast a long shadow over right-wing intellectuals, theologians, and other Jeremiahs of the modern condition (like Christopher Lasch and Alasdair MacIntyre). In the two books that made his name — 1959's Freud: Mind of the Moralist and 1966's Triumph of the Therapeutic: The Uses of Faith After Freud — Rieff engages deeply with psychoanalysis, deriving from Sigmund Freud a theory of how culture creates morality and, in turn, why modern culture, with its emphasis on psychological well-being over moral instruction, no longer functions to shape individuals into a community of shared purpose. Rieff, a secular Jew, remained concerned to the very end of his life with the problem of living in a society without faith, one in which the rudderless self is mediated, most of all, by therapeutic ideas and psychological institutions rather than by religious or political ones. Less sophisticated versions of this conundrum haunt conservative thought to this day — from complaints about "wokeness" as a religion to the right's treatment of sexual and gender transgression as mental pathology. To help us navigate Rieff, Freud, and the conservative underbelly of psychoanalysis, we're joined by two brilliant thinkers and writers: Hannah Zeavin and Alex Colston. Hannah is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University in the Luddy School of Informatics; Alex is a PhD student at Duquesne in clinical psychology. Most importantly, for our purposes, Hannah and Alex are also the editors of Parapraxis, a new magazine of psychoanalysis on the left. We hope you enjoy this (admittedly, heady) episode. If you do, consider signing up for a new podcast — on psychoanalysis and politics, of all things — hosted by beloved KYE guest Patrick Blanchfield and his partner Abby Kluchin entitled "Ordinary Unhappiness." Further Reading: Philip Rieff, Freud: Mind of the Moralist (Viking, 1959)— The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud (Harper &amp; Row, 1966)— Fellow Teachers (Harper &amp; Row, 1973)Gerald Howard, "Reasons to Believe," Bookforum, Feb 2007. Blake Smith, "The Secret Life of Philip Rieff." Tablet, Dec 15, 2022George Scialabba, "The Curse of Modernity: Rieff's Problem with Freedom," Boston Review, Jul 1, 2007.Christopher Lasch, "The Saving Remnant," The New Republic, Nov 19, 1990. Hannah Zeavin, "Composite Case: The fate of the children of psychoanalysis," Parapraxis, Nov 14, 2022. Alex Colston, "Father," Parapraxis, Nov 21, 2022. Rod Dreher, "We Live In Rieff World," Mar 1, 2019. Park MacDougald, "The Importance of Repression," Sept 29, 2021...and don't forget to subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon for access to all of our bonus episodes!

Modern conservatives have long asked the following questions: how can we live together without God? Is there any substitute for religion in cohering a moral community? And if not, what can we do to revive the old sacred authority that reason, science, and liberalism have interred?These were also  the questions that preoccupied Philip Rieff (1922-2006), an idiosyncratic sociologist and product of the University of Chicago, whose thought cast a long shadow over right-wing intellectuals, theologians, and other Jeremiahs of the modern condition (like Christopher Lasch and Alasdair MacIntyre). In the two books that made his name — 1959's <a href="https://archive.org/details/freudmindofmoral0000rief_h8p3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Freud: Mind of the Moralist</a> and 1966's <a href="https://www.abebooks.com/Triumph-Therapeutic-Uses-Faith-after-Freud/30819899529/bd?cm_mmc=ggl-_-US_Shopp_Trade_10to20-_-product_id=COM9781932236804USED-_-keyword=&amp;gclid=CjwKCAiA3KefBhByEiwAi2LDHBw4t2--GswC1_TF8iUL8ZcuoX6cvuYZSdyt1PD0hxgcLN3o-BhuYBoC4J4QAvD_BwE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Triumph of the Therapeutic: The Uses of Faith After Freud </a>— Rieff engages deeply with psychoanalysis, deriving from Sigmund Freud a theory of how culture creates morality and, in turn, why modern culture, with its emphasis on psychological well-being over moral instruction, no longer functions to shape individuals into a community of shared purpose. Rieff, a secular Jew, remained concerned to the very end of his life with the problem of living in a society without faith, one in which the rudderless self is mediated, most of all, by therapeutic ideas and psychological institutions rather than by religious or political ones. Less sophisticated versions of this conundrum haunt conservative thought to this day — from complaints about "wokeness" as a religion to the right's treatment of sexual and gender transgression as mental pathology. To help us navigate Rieff, Freud, and the conservative underbelly of psychoanalysis, we're joined by two brilliant thinkers and writers: <a href="https://twitter.com/HZeavin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hannah Zeavin</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/re_colston" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alex Colston</a>. Hannah is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University in the Luddy School of Informatics; Alex is a PhD student at Duquesne in clinical psychology. Most importantly, for our purposes, Hannah and Alex are also the editors of <a href="https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Parapraxis</a>, a new magazine of psychoanalysis on the left. We hope you enjoy this (admittedly, heady) episode. If you do, consider <a href="https://linktr.ee/ordinaryunhappiness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">signing up</a> for a new podcast — on psychoanalysis and politics, of all things — hosted by beloved KYE guest <a href="https://know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/unlocked-freud-and-politics-w-pat-blanchfield" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patrick Blanchfield</a> and his partner Abby Kluchin entitled "<a href="https://tr.ee/CDh9YLWABO" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ordinary Unhappiness</a>." Further Reading: Philip Rieff, Freud: Mind of the Moralist (Viking, 1959)— The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud (Harper &amp; Row, 1966)— Fellow Teachers (Harper &amp; Row, 1973)Gerald Howard, "<a href="https://www.bookforum.com/print/1305/in-his-posthumous-books-philip-rieff-revisits-faith-and-our-inner-and-outer-lives-72" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Reasons to Believe,</a>" Bookforum, Feb 2007. Blake Smith, "<a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/philip-rieff-susan-sontag" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Secret Life of Philip Rieff</a>." Tablet, Dec 15, 2022George Scialabba, "<a href="https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-curse-of-modernity/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Curse of Modernity: Rieff's Problem with Freedom</a>," Boston Review, Jul 1, 2007.Christopher Lasch, "<a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/149121/saving-remnant" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Saving Remnant</a>," The New Republic, Nov 19, 1990. Hannah Zeavin, "<a href="https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/composite-case" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Composite Case: The fate of the children of psychoanalysis</a>," Parapraxis, Nov 14, 2022. Alex Colston, "<a href="https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/keyword-father" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Father</a>," Parapraxis, Nov 21, 2022. Rod Dreher, "<a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/philip-rieff-donald-trump/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">We Live In Rieff World</a>," Mar 1, 2019. Park MacDougald, "<a href="https://unherd.com/2021/09/why-we-need-to-be-repressed/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Importance of Repression</a>," Sept 29, 2021...and don't forget to subscribe to <a href="https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Know Your Enemy on Patreon</a> for access to all of our bonus episodes!