Name: Humour, Violence, Repetition: The case of a Young boy and his Mother
Start: 2024-06-08T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-06-08T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Westminster Quakers

Humour, Violence, Repetition: The case of a Young boy and his Mother

In this event Jamieson, will talk about a clinical case of a young adolescent boy.
About this Event

Humour, Violence, Repetition: The Case of the Young Boy and his Mother

Saturday 8th June 2024 at 7.30pm -9pm

Abstract

While Freud thought of humour as suffused with jouissance - with sexual and aggressive tension - he later felt that humour was subversive and has the power to challenge the super ego which fuels jouissance. Of all the unconscious formations, humour is the most social. We always write a joke for somebody. It is a site of shared wit, pleasure and play. And yet, there is no joke without an element of repeated violence: an eye for destruction. Through looking at moments in the treatment of an adolescent boy, Jamieson will map the transformation of jouissance through humour, repetition and violence.

Bio

Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in New York. She is the author of Disorganisation & Sex(Divided, 2022), The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis (Karnac 2011) and Conversion Disorder ( Columbia University Press 2018). She co -wrote with Simon Critchley, Stay Illusion! THe Hamlet Doctrine ( Pantheon, 2013). She contributes to Artforum, The new York Times and the New York Review of Books.