Ordinary Unhappiness
Ordinary Unhappiness
Abby Kluchin, Patrick Blanchfield, and Dan Yowell
148: You’re So Vain: Narcissism, Part 1
1 hour 28 minutes Posted Jun 20, 2026 at 10:00 am.
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Abby, Patrick, and Dan kick off Ordinary Unhappiness’s Summer of Narcissism series! In this first episode of many, the three reckon with how talk of “narcissism” and “narcissists” is ubiquitous in contemporary culture, from therapy sessions to self-help-books to popular media to op-eds to the dating scene and beyond. Yet as Abby, Patrick, and Dan explore, “narcissism” in practice seems to mean radically different things to different people, gets invoked for wildly different purposes, and is h...