Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in New York City. She is the author of The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis (2011) and Conversion Disorder (2018); she also co-wrote, with Simon Critchley, Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine (2013). She contributes regularly to Apology, Artforum, Spike Art Magazine and The New York Review of Books.
Forthcoming
Disorganisation & Sex
Jun 2022

Jun 2022
Disorganisation & Sex
Jamieson Webster
Jun 2022
Disorganisation & Sex
Jamieson Webster
Never does the patient seem more ill than when they try to order associations into a logical tale. Classical analysis sees this in terms of a repudiation of sexuality: an attempt to avoid speaking from a place of desire. But why should psychoanalysis reduce everything to sex? Disorganisation & Sex argues that the sexuality of psychoanalysis is not a reductive materialism, but an archaic remainder that cannot be colonised, endlessly disorienting meaning in our everyday lives. It is our proximity to this terrain that undoes our most tedious habits, and opens onto something revelatory. If sex only ever achieves partial satisfactions, fragments of pleasure, its pursuit creates our subjectivity and our world. Psychoanalysis keeps the subversive possibility of sex alive in an age of cheap pleasures and empty transgressions.
- 978-1-9164250-9-5
- 21.6 x 13.9 cm
- 200 p.
- Paperback
- June 2022
About the author
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Being dragged into the orbit of Webster’s mind is like entering the Magic Mountain: you go in as a visitor, and stay as a patient.
In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power, Communities
Sep 2022

Sep 2022
In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power, Communities
Joy James
Sep 2022
In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power, Communities
Joy James
- 978-1-7398431-0-6
- 21.6 x 13.9 cm
- Paperback
- September 2022
About the author
Joy James is the Ebenezer Fitch Professor of the Humanities at Williams College and author of Resisting State Violence; Transcending the Talented Tenth; Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics; Seeking the 'Beloved Community'. The editor of the Angela Y. Davis Reader and co-editor of The Black Feminist Reader, James's anthologies on incarceration and political imprisonment include: States of Confinement; The New Abolitionists; Imprisoned Intellectuals; Warfare in the American Homeland. She is completing a book titled The Captive Maternal Leverages Democracy. James advocates for political prisoners and works with the Abolition Collective BIU's blog. Follow her on Twitter: @DrJoyJames.
(Forthcoming)
Feb 2023

Feb 2023
(Forthcoming)
Ghislaine Leung
Feb 2023
(Forthcoming)
Ghislaine Leung
- 978-1-9164250-0-2
- 21.6 x 13.9 cm cm
- 96 p.
- Paperback
- February 2023