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:

Sheldon George and Derek Hook, "Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity, and Psychoanalytic Theory" (Routledge, 2021)

October 8, 2021

Lacan and Race

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…

Gabriel Tupinambá, "The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Thinking" (Northwestern UP, 2021)

July 26, 2021

The Desire of Psychoanalysis

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 T…

Leon S. Brenner, "The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

February 17, 2021

The Autistic Subject

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 psych…

Jamieson Webster, "Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis" (Columbia UP, 2018)

June 19, 2020

Conversion Disorder

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…

Lisa Baraitser, "Enduring Time" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)

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 Lo…

Chenyang Wang, "Subjectivity In-Between Times: Exploring the Notion of Time in Lacan's Work" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

February 12, 2020

Subjectivity In-Between Times

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! …

Ian Parker, "Psychoanalysis, Clinic, and Context: Subjectivity, History, and Autobiography" (Routledge, 2019)

November 13, 2019

Psychoanalysis, Clinic, and Context

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, an…

Amy Allen and Mari Ruti, "Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan: A Dialogue," Part 2 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

October 11, 2019

Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan

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 thei…

Amy Allen and Mari Ruti, "Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan: A Dialogue" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

September 16, 2019

Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan

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 thei…

Stijn Vanheule, Derek Hook and Calum Neill, "Reading Lacan’s Écrits" (Routledge, 2018)

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 edi…

Shanna de la Torre, "Sex for Structuralists: The Non-Oedipal Logics of Femininity and Psychosis" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

January 17, 2019

Sex for Structuralists

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 un…

Derek Hook, "Six Moments in Lacan: Communication and Identification in Psychology and Psychoanalysis" (Routledge, 2018)

January 16, 2018

Six Moments in Lacan

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?"…