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Moments of clarity are rare and fleeting; how can we become comfortable outside of them?
Author, Emily Ogden’s latest publication, On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays (2022, Peninsula Press) illuminates the crucial role that uncertainty plays in our lives. From giving birth, to loving, listening and having a one-night stand, her essays celebrate the defenselessness of not knowing yet – or possibly not knowing ever.
The discussion will be guided by psychoanalyst and author, Josh Cohen. Cohen’s publications explore themes such as privacy, working, humility and loss, that will provide a thoughtful accompaniment to Ogden’s investigations into the unpredictability of life.
Speakers:
Emily Ogden is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia and the author of Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism (University of Chicago Press, 2018). You can find her on Twitter at @ENOgden. She lives in Charlottesville, VA.
Josh Cohen is a psychoanalyst in private practice, and Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths University of London. He is the author of numerous books and articles on modern literature, psychoanalysis and cultural theory. His books include How to Read Freud (Granta, 2005), The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark (Granta, 2013), Losers (Peninsula, 2021) and How to Live. What to Do (Penguin, 2022). He is a regular contributor to Guardian, New Statesman and TLS.
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