Chemsex Allows You to Reflect on Pleasure and Its Limits
Pikara Magazine
An interview translated into Spanish based on my previous scholarship on ‘chemsex’, for the Basque feminist magazine Pikara
21 May 2025
Perceptions of Time for Young People
What it Means to be on Waiting Lists for Care and Treatment
University of Essex Brighter Futures
Jordan Osserman of the University of Essex's Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies meets with Professor Jules Pretty to explain how the perception of wait time impacts young people attempting to access gender and mental health services, and how NHS providers deliver care while under pressure.
Jan 2024
New Books in Psychoanalysis interview: Circumcision on the Couch
The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery
New Books in Psychoanalysis
It is not terribly controversial to say that castration fear is one of the key conceptual engines driving the psychoanalytic project overall. Whether one thinks of it manifesting as a looming, retributive threat for incestuous longings or as a struggle to face one’s shortcomings, contending with what we are at risk of losing or what […]
15 Aug 2022
New Books in Psychoanalysis interview: Transgender Children
From Controversy to Dialogue
New Books in Psychoanalysis
How do we go forward in our psychoanalytic understanding of transgender children? This highly contested issue is at the core of an interesting edition of the journal The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (Volume 75, Issue 1, 2022), titled “Transgender Children: From Controversy to Dialogue”, and edited by Jordan Osserman and Hannah Wallerstein. To counter […]
11 Jul 2022
Psychoanalysis and Post-Truth
A discussion of the evolution of politics and truth in our contemporary world
Public Seminar
On November 1st and 8th, the Freud Museum, London will be hosting a digital conference on “Psychoanalysis and ‘Post-Truth’,” organized with Jordan Osserman and Foivos Dousos in partnership with the Ministry of Post-Truth and Waiting Times. The event takes place during the weekends before and after the US election, offering critical commentary on the question […]
29 Oct 2020
Rendering Unconscious interview
RU46: Jordan Osserman, Psychoanalytic Scholar on Circumcision, Gender, Politics
Rendering Unconscious
Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. Episodes are also created from lectures given at various international conferences. Dr […]
1 Nov 2019