Lacan and Race

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 …
8 Oct 2021

The Desire of Psychoanalysis

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 …
26 Jul 2021

The Autistic Subject

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 …
17 Feb 2021

Conversion Disorder

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 …
19 Jun 2020

Enduring Time

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 …
9 Apr 2020

Subjectivity In-Between Times

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 …
12 Feb 2020

Psychoanalysis, Clinic, and Context

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 …
13 Nov 2019

Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan – Part 2

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 …
11 Oct 2019

Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan

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 …
16 Sep 2019

Reading Lacan’s Écrits

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 …
15 Jul 2019