Hello, and welcome listeners to Know Your Enemy.

I'm Sam Atler-Bell, my co-host Matt Settman is off writing important and devastating

things for us all to eventually read, so I'm sharing a special episode with you all.

A few weeks ago, I appeared on an excellent new podcast called Ordinary Unhappiness,

which is a podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, and pop culture hosted by two great friends

of this show, Patrick Blanchfield and Abby Cluchin.

Know Your Enemy listeners will know Patrick from his appearances on our show to discuss

guns and Freud respectively and together, and his wife Abby, his co-host, is a brilliant

philosopher.

Their show is a total delight.

I've listened to every episode, and it's just getting better and better.

In what you're about to hear, Patrick and Abby and I spend some time discussing how

psychoanalysis has come to inform my study of conservatism and the right, which will be

interesting to the Freud-pilled among you listeners.

Then we also talk about one of my favorite journalists, who is herself very psychoanalytically

informed, whose name is Janet Malcolm.

So I think you're really going to enjoy this, and we'll get to it very shortly.

As always, we want to thank our sponsors at Descent.

One of the things they do for us is if you sign up on Patreon at www.patreon.com slash

Know Your Enemy for $10 a month, you get a free digital description to Descent, which

is a magazine we love and both write for.

If you sign up at $5 a month, you still get access to all of our bonus episodes, which

...