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About Jordan Osserman

Jordan Osserman is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck (University of London) and member of Waiting Times, a Wellcome-funded project on the temporalities of healthcare. He is interested in Lacanian theory and clinical practice, gender and sexuality, and left-wing politics. Jordan is in clinical training with the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
Jordan Osserman is a postdoctoral research fellow and psychoanalyst in training in London. He can be reached at jordan.osserman@gmail.com.

NBN Episodes hosted by Jordan:

Psychoanalysis October 8, 2021

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 …
Psychoanalysis July 26, 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 …
Psychoanalysis February 17, 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 …
Psychoanalysis June 19, 2020

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 …
Psychoanalysis April 9, 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 …
Psychoanalysis February 12, 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 …
Psychoanalysis November 13, 2019

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 …
Psychoanalysis October 11, 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 …
Psychoanalysis September 16, 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 …
Psychoanalysis July 15, 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 …
Psychoanalysis January 17, 2019

Sex for Structuralists

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 …
Psychoanalysis January 16, 2018

Six Moments in Lacan

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 …