Joe Moshenska Milton, Freud, and My Cousin Hymie I found in Paradise Lost an unexpected affinity among its author, the psychoanalyst, and myself. What the anti-Semite Ezra Pound called the poet’s “beastly hebraism” held the key. November 9, 2021
Jamieson Webster On Breathing From first moments to last rites, the air around us is not only essential to life but also carries our speech. So being silenced can feel like death. April 2, 2021
Jamieson Webster Psychoanalysis in Time of Plague Jacques Lacan said that psychoanalysis had to be invented to deal with the strangeness of the human condition, not to fix it, but to expose that strangeness to itself. This is what feels so uncanny about doing psychoanalysis during a plague. April 1, 2020
Jamieson Webster The Psychopharmacology of Everyday Life We do have a choice about whether to medicate and how we do so. I think we have forgotten this because of how easy it is to obtain pills, along with the pervasive idea that our problems are simply chemical or genetic. By elucidating some basic psychoanalytic notions, I hope to disrupt our blind passion for prescriptions. November 19, 2018