Jamieson Webster
Part-time Assistant Professor
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websterj@newschool.edu
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Psychoanalysis has always felt more at home in philosophy than in psychology for me given the nature of the challenge it presents for thinking through questions of consciousness, reason, truth, reality, and identity. One could say that psychoanalysis wants philosophy to think sexuality and the unconscious which it refuses to think. Philosophy, Gender and Sexuality, and Psychoanalytic Theory remain a fertile cross-roads in my work and teaching where I bring my experience as a practicing psychoanalyst to the reading of texts. I have taught on Jacques Lacan’s early and late work, focusing on reading the seminars, as well as, on the body in psychoanalytic thinking and the influence of structural linguistics on the reading of Freud.
Degrees Held
BA 2000, Sarah Lawrence College
PhD 2008, Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, CUNY Graduate Center
Recent Publications
Books
Webster, Jamieson (2025) On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe New York: Catapult
Webster, Jamieson (2022) Disorganization and Sex London: Divided Publishers
Webster, Jamieson (2018) Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis New York: Columbia University Press
Webster, Jamieson and Critchley, Simon (2013) Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine New York: Vintage
Webster, Jamieson (2011) The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis: Desire and its Sublimation New York: Routledge
Recent Scholarly Articles
Webster, J. “The Most Hysterical Psychoanalyst” in Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 2024, 75:1
Webster, J. “How Not To Kill a Hysteric” in Philosophy After Lacan (ed. Taheri, Vanderwees, Naderi) Routledge: 2024.
Webster, J. Coelen, M. “Two Analysts Ask ‘What is Genitality?’” in Psychoanalysis, Gender and Sexuality (ed. Gherovici and Steinkoler) Routledge: 2022.
Webster, J. Coelen, M. “From Mass to Mess: Identification and its Discontents in Mass Psychology Revisited (ed. Alexander Miller) in Psychoanalytische Perspectieven 2021, 39:3.
Webster, J. “Uncanny Conversions” in RISS, Vol. 6, 2020.
Recent Popular Articles
Webster, Jamieson (2024) “Freudulence: On Sigmund Freud and William C. Bullitt’s Book on Woodrow Wilson” The Los Angeles Review of Books
Webster, Jamieson (2023) “I Don’t Need to Be a Good Person” The New York Times Opinion Editorial.
Webster, Jamieson (2022) “A Child is Being Aborted” in The New York Review of Books.
Webster, Jamieson (2022) "On The Hook: Trauma, Transference and the Art of Bracha L Ettinger" in Artforum.