Event type: book launch

Progressive societies have dismantled many of the prohibitions that once ring-fenced errant sexual desires. Were ‘heteronormative’ orthodox Freudian ideas like ‘genitality’ useful after all?

Shakespeare weighs heavily on the British political imagination. What use is the canon to contemporary political analysis?

Progress is one of the animating concepts of our civilisation. Do things “only get better”?

What if the artist’s only way out of the art world is through art?

What does it mean for a nation to put its interest first?

If we don’t control our present, is it too late to shape our future?

Ageing liberal democracies are plagued by a crisis of legitimacy. Efforts to save them only make things worse.

Are we living in a post-comedy word?

New York psychoanalyst and author Jamieson Webster explores the relationship of art and psychoanalysis, with the artist’s studio and the analyst’s couch as sites of convergence.