Connections and Conversation: On Breathing – Jamieson Webster, Ph.D.
September 25, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT
series: connections and conversation
Connections and Conversation is a free monthly Zoom meeting, cultivating creativity and freedom of thought and feeling. We invite you to engage with our presenters and community as they share their interests and passions in conversation on current topics in psychoanalysis.
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On Breathing
Thursday, September 25th, 2025 from 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM PST
Derrida famously said that philosophy always unites speech and breath making it pneumatological, privileging spirit over matter. This question becomes more fascinating when looking at the history of psychoanalysis. Breuer, Fliess, Jung, Rank, Reich, and Ferenczi all touched on a question of breath, a moment that was identified by Freud as heretical, leading him to break violently from each of these figures. The choice was between breathing or Oedipus as the center of psychoanalytic work, between anxiety and symptom formation. What can breathing tell us about the unconscious and the talking cure?
Jamieson Webster, Ph.D.
Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in New York City and a professor at The New School for Social Research. Her most recent book is Disorganization and Sex (Divided, 2022).
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