Public Reveries

This episode explores speaking — not as communication or self-expression, but as the act that crosses the distance between inner life and the presence of another. Drawing on the peep show confession scene in Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas and an excerpt from Anne Carson's long poem "The Glass Essay," the episode moves between film, poetry, and the consulting room to ask what becomes...

Public Reveries is a podcast exploring moments when inner life becomes briefly visible. Rather than offering explanations or answers, the series invites a slower, more careful way of listening — one informed by psychoanalysis but oriented toward depth, ambiguity, and the textures of experience. Created by psychotherapist Jonathan David Moss, featuring original music. New episodes forthcoming. List...

What happens when listening itself changes what can be spoken? This opening episode explores listening — not as a technique or virtue, but as a condition that makes certain experiences thinkable and speakable. Drawing on scenes from Mad Men and Barry Jenkins' Moonlight, and on moments from the consulting room, the episode lingers with instances of contact: when something long held in silence...