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Josh Cohen (born 1970) is a British psychoanalyst and author. Between 1996 and 2024, he taught in the English department at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he was appointed Professor of Modern Literary Theory in 2010. He was elected to Membership of the British Psychoanalytical Society in 2009, and to Fellowship in 2014. In 2023, he was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature.

His essays have appeared in Granta, Aeon (magazine), The Yale Review and 1843 (magazine). He has written articles and reviews for The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman and Prospect (magazine), as well as numerous academic articles and chapters in edited collections.

Works

Spectacular Allegories: Postmodern American Writing and the Politics of Seeing, (Pluto Press,1998)

Interrupting Auschwitz: Art, Religion, Philosophy, published by (Continuum, 2003)

How to Read Freud, (Granta, 2005)

The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark. (Granta, 2013); American edition, The Private Life: Our Everyday Self in an Age of Intrusion (Counterpoint, 2014)

Lament (with Bettina von Zwehl, accompanying text to artbook produced by von Zwehl for her Freud Museum exhibition) (Art/ Books, 2017)

Not Working: Why We Have to Stop  (Granta, 2019)

How to Live. What to Do: In Search of Ourselves in Life an Literature (Ebury, 2021)

Losers (Peninsula, 2021)

All the Rage: Why Anger Drives the World (Granta, 2024)

Critical reception

Cohen's work has garnered generally positive reviews. Writing about The Private Life in the Guardian, Lisa Appignanesi compared Cohen's work to that of Slavoj Žižek and Darian Leader, noting that "Cohen also engages in some astute reading of literature and popular culture". Also writing in the Guardian, the journalist Jonathan Derbyshire praised the "aphoristic, epigrammatic quality" of Cohen's prose and noted that, as an advocate for psychoanalysis, he "is attractively sceptical about some of the claims that Freud and others have made on its behalf."

In The New Statesman, Suzanne Moore praised Not Working, writing that "Cohen is attuned to all the ways we may avoid ourselves ... Cohen, though, is fantastically good at making us question our hard-won strategies of avoidance and resistance to stopping." Meanwhile, in a positive review the journalist Oliver Eagleton called Not Working an "eloquent defence of shiftlessness".

References

  1. Robson, Leo (2021-02-22). ""Can you imagine if you presented Freud to Jane Austen?": Josh Cohen on literature and psychoanalysis". New Statesman. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  2. "Professor Josh Cohen". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  3. "British Psychoanalytic Council". British Psychoanalytic Council. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  4. "Cohen, Josh - Royal Society of Literature". 2023-07-14. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  5. "Lazy Boy". Granta. 2019-02-14. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  6. "Anger is a state of agitated enervation that moves the world | Aeon Essays". Aeon. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  7. "Josh Cohen: "The Mother's Rage"". The Yale Review. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  8. "Is there more to burnout than working too hard?". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  9. Cohen, Josh (2014-01-16). "François Hollande's privacy plea and our relentless spirit of self-display". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  10. "Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle at 100 | Essay by Josh Cohen". TLS. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  11. Cohen, Josh (2014-04-08). "Private parts: writers and the battle for our inner lives". New Statesman. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  12. Cohen, Josh. "In the era of meritocracy, why are we so drawn to losers?". dlv.prospect.gcpp.io. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  13. "Professor Josh Cohen". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  14. Appignanesi, Lisa (2013-11-02). "The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark by Josh Cohen – review". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  15. Derbyshire, Jonathan (2013-11-21). "The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark by Josh Cohen – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  16. Moore, Suzanne (2019-01-30). "I don't want to work. What happens if we don't?". New Statesman. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  17. "Oliver Eagleton - The Flâneur's Manifesto". Literary Review. 2024-07-24. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
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