Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A discussion with psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster about her forthcoming book "On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe."
Filmed on 24/09/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.
The one thing that unites every single moment of our lives is that we are breathing. Although inhaling and exhaling rarely attract attention, these simple actions are increasingly under threat — whether due to climate change, anxiety, or a public health emergency. Jamieson Webster draws on her professional experience as a palliative care psychoanalyst during the pandemic, as well her personal experiences, to explore this often overlooked subject. This conversation was moderated by writer, journalist, and psychoanalyst Sinziana Ravini.
About the speakers:
Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in New York City, she teaches at The New School School for Social Research, and is a regular contributor to New York Review of Books, the New York Times, and many psychoanalytic publications. She is the author most recently of Disorganisation and Sex (Divided, 2022) and the forthcoming On Breathing (Peninsula UK and Catapult US, 2025).
Sinziana Ravini is a writer, journalist and psychoanalyst living in Paris. She is also the editor-in-chief of the Swedish Art Journal Paletten. She has published Les Psychonautes in 2022 (PUF) and La diagonale du désir in 2018 (Editions Stock) and holds a PHD In literature from the University of Heidelberg entitled Goethe’s Schöpfungsmythen published in 2009 (Peter Lang Verlag)
Evenings with an Author is generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg.
A discussion with psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster about her forthcoming book "On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe."
Filmed on 24/09/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.
The one thing that unites every single moment of our lives is that we are breathing. Although inhaling and exhaling rarely attract attention, these simple actions are increasingly under threat — whether due to climate change, anxiety, or a public health emergency. Jamieson Webster draws on her professional experience as a palliative care psychoanalyst during the pandemic, as well her personal experiences, to explore this often overlooked subject. This conversation was moderated by writer, journalist, and psychoanalyst Sinziana Ravini.
About the speakers:
Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in New York City, she teaches at The New School School for Social Research, and is a regular contributor to New York Review of Books, the New York Times, and many psychoanalytic publications. She is the author most recently of Disorganisation and Sex (Divided, 2022) and the forthcoming On Breathing (Peninsula UK and Catapult US, 2025).
Sinziana Ravini is a writer, journalist and psychoanalyst living in Paris. She is also the editor-in-chief of the Swedish Art Journal Paletten. She has published Les Psychonautes in 2022 (PUF) and La diagonale du désir in 2018 (Editions Stock) and holds a PHD In literature from the University of Heidelberg entitled Goethe’s Schöpfungsmythen published in 2009 (Peter Lang Verlag)
Evenings with an Author is generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg.
