Disorganisation & Sex - Jamieson Webster

Psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster will be in discussion with historian Patrick Weill  at our 4pm session on Friday, the 7th of June. Find out more here. 

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? If sex only ever achieves partial satisfactions, fragments of pleasure, its pursuit creates our subjectivity and our world.

Disorganisation & Sex argues that the sexuality of psychoanalysis is not a reductive biologism, 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.

Publisher: Divided Publishing

Published: July 2022

Format: Paperback 

Pages: 240

Dimensions: 15.24 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm