Ode & Psyche Podcast

About Ode & Psyche Podcast

Conversations of poetry and poetics with Bianca Stone; the interior and exterior reality of language in verse.

Publisher

Bianca Stone

Category

arts · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Jul 2018

Latest episode

27 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 87 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   27 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Black Sun Part I. Nerval, Kristeva, Wright — (notes, “melody, rhythm, semantic polyvalency” for the depressive theist position: )

   Some of the psychoanalytic returns, passing through the black hole sun. “But they were still asleep…” –Nerval. If you are here you can think through this knot with me, perhaps. (SO insane to put such a melody at the end….) But may you have a rare vision in tonight’s dream if you arrive at it. […]

2. 

   19 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Between the Idea & The Reality: TS ELIOT, the words information, the mystery of tone

   Here is the famous T.S. Eliot poem, The Hollow Men. There is rain at dawn, and some birds. And one might pause over how the same words hold between poets, across continents, at different time periods; the rose in Eliot and the rose in Rilke, the tone of a Franz Wright rose and the tone […]

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   10 Jul 2026

   Poetry & Its Education of Paradoxes

   However well the poet bears the unclear word within themselves, they are dedicated to precision. To arrive without fully knowing one’s function in language, but utter faith in it nonetheless. An episode riffing off a lecture to some education retirees the other day & the function of the poet in the world. The Laureates out […]

Inside a recent episode

The Black Sun Part I. Nerval, Kristeva, Wright — (notes, “melody, rhythm, semantic polyvalency” for the depressive theist position: )

Published 27 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It is to this fringe of strangeness that they devote their tears and jouissance. In the tension of their affects, muscles, mucous membranes, and skin, they experience both their belonging to and distance from an archaic other that still eludes representation and naming, but of whose corporeal emissions, along with their automatism, they still bear the imprint Unbelieving in language, the depressive persons are affectionate, wounded to be sure, but prisoners of affect. The affect is their thing. The thing is inscribed within us without memory. The buried accomplice of our unspeakable anguishes. […]

Who has been a guest on Ode & Psyche Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Alina Stefanescu
• Bianca Stone
• Ryan Ruby

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

38 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

19 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 20 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

8

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

82

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