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Jamieson Webster, PhD

Core Faculty MA Philosophy Program MA Psychoanalysis Program MA Theology Program

Biography

Jamieson Webster

Distinguished Research Fellow

Global Centre for Advanced Studies — GCAS College Dublin

Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in private practice based in New York City. In addition to her clinical work, she is a part-time faculty member at The New School for Social Research. She also holds a distinguished research position—Distinguished Research Fellow—at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies — GCAS College Dublin.

Academic and Clinical Background

  • Education: BA (2000) from Sarah Lawrence College; PhD in Clinical Psychology (2008) from the CUNY Graduate Center
  • Teaches and supervises doctoral students in clinical psychology at CUNY Graduate Center, and has long-standing teaching roles across The New School and CUNY

Books

  • The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis: Desire and Its Sublimation (2011)
  • Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine (2013), co-authored with Simon Critchley
  • Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis (2018)
  • Disorganization and Sex (2022)
  • On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe (2025), published by Catapult (US) and Peninsula Press (UK)

Articles and Media

Webster regularly contributes to a wide range of publications, including:

  • The New York Times — Opinion pieces like “I Don’t Need to Be a Good Person” (2023)
  • The New York Review of Books — “A Child is Being Aborted” (2022)
  • The Los Angeles Review of Books — “Freudulence” (2024)
  • Artforum, among other scholarly and psychoanalytic journals

Engagements & Fellowships

  • Participated as a Fellow in the “Futures of Capitalism” program at The New Institute for the academic year 2024–2025
  • Spoke at the Aspen Art Museum in connection with the exhibition In the House of the Trembling Eye, tying psychoanalysis to themes in art, archaeology, and cultural discourse