In the most recent issue of the London Review of Books, Jacqueline Rose writes of the conflict in Israel/Gaza that there is a need to bring psychoanalytic understanding to the negotiating table. “One thing seems clear. None of this will just disappear if we ignore it. You cannot dream the unconscious away.” (J.Rose, ‘You made […]

In this event, Jordan and his invited guests made use of the Old Operating Theatre’s incredible surgical setting to bring to life some major themes of his book: the nineteenth-century transformation of circumcision from a religious rite to a medical procedure designed to cure ‘nervous illness’; the psychological dynamics of contemporary anti-circumcision activism (‘intactivism’); and […]

Dr. Leon Brenner and Dr. Jordan Osserman on Psychoanalysis and Circumcision Dr. Jordan Osserman’s book, Circumcision on the Couch: The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World’s Oldest Surgery (2021), engages with the long debate surrounding circumcision in the world of psychoanalysis and without. Dr. Osserman examines how the removal of the foreskin-has become […]

Racism, Identity, and Psychoanalytic Theory Sheldon George and Derek Hook Hosted by Jordan Osserman Derek Hook and Sheldon George’s Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity and Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2021) is a path-breaking edited volume that draws upon Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to examine the conscious and unconscious forces …

Exercises in Lacanian Thinking Gabriel Tupinambá Hosted by Jordan Osserman What does psychoanalysis want? In The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Thinking (Northwestern UP, 2021), analyst and academic Gabriel Tupinambá takes the Lacanian world to task for failing to properly …

On the Threshold of Language Leon S. Brenner Hosted by Jordan Osserman Leon Brenner’s The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) makes a forceful case for the relevance of Lacanian psychoanalysis in the understanding and treatment of autism …

Online course with Dr Jordan Osserman and guests. How can psychoanalysis — as both a theory and clinical practice — productively engage with contemporary concerns surrounding gender and sexual diversity? What is the relationship between forms of clinical psychoanalytic practice that pathologise or stigmatise particular gender/sexual identities and practices, and more progressive approaches to the […]

Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis Jamieson Webster Hosted by Jordan Osserman What do psychoanalysts do with bodies, and what do they do with them now? Jamieson Webster has been thinking and writing on these questions as they impact her in her …

Lisa Baraitser Hosted by Jordan Osserman In Enduring Time (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), practicing psychoanalyst and Professor of Psychosocial Theory Lisa Baraitser (Birkbeck, University of London) explores what it means to ‘take care’ of time in our …

Exploring the Notion of Time in Lacan’s Work Chenyang Wang Hosted by Jordan Osserman If you thought Jacques Lacan’s essay on “Logical Time” was the psychoanalyst’s final word on the subject, then this interview has a lot to teach you! In his new book …

Subjectivity, History, and Autobiography Ian Parker Hosted by Jordan Osserman There are many pathways into the world of psychoanalysis. Some arrive from fields like psychiatry and psychology; some from literature, philosophy, and the humanities; and others from political organising. Our …

A Dialogue Amy Allen and Mari Ruti Hosted by Jordan Osserman What happens when a Kleinian and Lacanian have a committed, generous, and accessible conversation about the commonalities and differences between their psychoanalytic perspectives? In this special, two-part interview, host Jordan …

A Dialogue Amy Allen and Mari Ruti Hosted by Jordan Osserman What happens when a Kleinian and Lacanian have a committed, generous, and accessible conversation about the commonalities and differences between their psychoanalytic perspectives? In this special, two-part interview, host Jordan …

Stijn Vanheule, Derek Hook and Calum Neill, eds. Hosted by Jordan Osserman Lacan published his Écrits in 1966, a compilation of his written work up to that middle period in his teaching. Notoriously difficult to read, the editors of the book we’re …

The Non-Oedipal Logics of Femininity and Psychosis Shanna de la Torre Hosted by Jordan Osserman What might Levi-Strauss and structuralism have to offer to psychoanalysis beyond the incest prohibition and the Oedipus complex? What happens if we understand Lacan’s notion of the symbolic as creative …

Communication and Identification in Psychology and Psychoanalysis Derek Hook Hosted by Jordan Osserman How can Bill Clinton’s “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” shed light on Lacan’s maxim, “The unconscious is structured like a language?” In Six Moments in Lacan …