Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and part-time faculty at The New School for Social Research. She is the author, most recently, of On Breathing (Peninsula Press, UK; Catapult, US; 2024), as well as Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis (Columbia University Press, 2018) and, with Simon Critchley, Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine (Vintage Random House, 2013). She has written regularly for Artforum, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and many psychoanalytic publications.
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Freudulence
Jamieson Webster invokes Sigmund Freud and Ambassador William C. Bullitt in an attempt to psychoanalyze political leaders, in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
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