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About Jordan Osserman
Jordan Osserman is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK. . 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.NBN Episodes hosted by Jordan:
October 29, 2024
Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy
Today I talked with Stijn Vanheule about Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy: A Road Map to Hope and Recovery for Families and Caregivers (Other Press, 2024…
October 25, 2024
Six Moments in Lacan
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?"…
June 16, 2024
Madman in the White House?
Did Woodrow Wilson's daddy issues cause World War II? And what might this teach us about our contemporary political plight? Jordan Osserman talks with…
October 8, 2021
Lacan and Race
Derek Hook and Sheldon George's Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity and Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2021) is a path-breaking edited volume that draws upon…
July 26, 2021
The Desire of Psychoanalysis
What does psychoanalysis want? In The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Thinking (Northwestern UP, 2021), analyst and academic Gabriel T…
February 17, 2021
The Autistic Subject
Leon Brenner's The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) makes a forceful case for the relevance of Lacanian psych…
June 19, 2020
Conversion Disorder
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…
April 9, 2020
Enduring Time
In Enduring Time (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), practicing psychoanalyst and Professor of Psychosocial Theory Lisa Baraitser (Birkbeck, University of Lo…
February 12, 2020
Subjectivity In-Between Times
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! …
November 13, 2019
Psychoanalysis, Clinic, and Context
There are many pathways into the world of psychoanalysis. Some arrive from fields like psychiatry and psychology; some from literature, philosophy, an…
October 11, 2019
Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan
What happens when a Kleinian and Lacanian have a committed, generous, and accessible conversation about the commonalities and differences between thei…
September 16, 2019
Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan
What happens when a Kleinian and Lacanian have a committed, generous, and accessible conversation about the commonalities and differences between thei…
July 15, 2019
Reading Lacan’s Écrits
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 edi…
January 17, 2019
Sex for Structuralists
What might Levi-Strauss and structuralism have to offer to psychoanalysis beyond the incest prohibition and the Oedipus complex? What happens if we un…