Jamieson Webster

1 month ago | entertainment-mag.com | Jamieson Webster

Breathing, Webster says, is “a hidden navel” in psychoanalysis. Not only is there the profession’s interest in a baby’s first cries, but there is also the fact that Freud credited Josef Breuer, a physiologist who studied respiration, with discovering psychoanalysis. And then there is the method of the “talking cure” itself. “Speaking requires the modulation of breath,” Webster writes.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Jamieson Webster

ON BREATHING: Care in a Time of Catastrophe, by Jamieson Webster"Focus on your breath": Those four little words have become familiar shorthand for staying grounded during troubled times. But as the psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster suggests in her roving and philosophical new book, the fashion for treating breath as a self-care commodity - "a means of curing 21st-century alienation" - reflects a profoundly limited sense of what breathing entails.

2 months ago | kirkusreviews.com | Jamieson Webster |Walter Isaacson |Daniel Kahneman

Alternately admiring and critical, unvarnished, and a closely detailed account of a troubled innovator. A warts-and-all portrait of the famed techno-entrepreneur—and the warts are nearly beyond counting. To call Elon Musk (b. 1971) “mercurial” is to undervalue the term; to call him a genius is incorrect. Instead, Musk has a gift for leveraging the genius of others in order to make things work.

Feb 6, 2025 | theparisreview.org | Jamieson Webster

By Jamieson Webster February 6, 2025 I have read Goodnight Moon to my daughter over and over since she was an infant. Its long, drawn-out goodnight to everything in that surreal green room for a little rabbit in blue striped pajamas.

Oct 24, 2024 | theparisreview.org | Jamieson Webster

By Jamieson Webster October 24, 2024 “A Child Is Being Beaten” is the strange title of Freud’s 1919 paper on sexual fantasy. This sentence, one of sadomasochistic, masturbatory enjoyment and announced from an unspecified source, indicates the phantasmatic scene admitted to by several of his patients. What are these beating fantasies?