Josh Cohen, educator, psychoanalyst, scientist, author.
Josh Cohen, educator, psychoanalyst, scientist, author.
Josh Cohen, educator, psychoanalyst, scientist, author.
Sussex House, Falmer Brighton BN1 9RH, United Kingdom
Josh Cohen received a Doctor of Philosophy in American Literature from the University of Sussex.
Stocker Rd, Exeter EX4 4PY, United Kingdom
Josh Cohen received a Master of Arts in American Cultural Studies from the University of Exeter.
Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
Josh Cohen received a Bachelor of Arts in English with honors from the University of Birmingham.
(Hitler, wrote Theodor Adorno, imposed "a new categorical ...)
Hitler, wrote Theodor Adorno, imposed "a new categorical imperative on humankind to arrange thoughts and actions so that Auschwitz will not repeat itself." Interrupting Auschwitz argues that what gives this imperative its philosophical force and ethical urgency is the very impossibility of fulfilling it. But rather than being a cause for despair, this failure offers a renewed conception of the tasks of thought and action. Precisely because the imperative cannot be fulfilled, it places thought in a state of perpetual incompletion, whereby our responsibility is never at an end and redemption is always interrupted. Josh Cohen argues that both Adorno's own writings on art after Auschwitz and Emmanuel Levinas' interpretations of Judaism reveal both thinkers as impelled by this logic of interruption, by a passionate refusal to bring thought to a point of completion.
https://www.amazon.com/Interrupting-Auschwitz-Art-Religion-Philosophy/dp/0826455514/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Interrupting+Auschwitz%3A+Art%2C+Religion%2C+Philosophy&qid=1589449642&sr=8-1
2003
(In this engaging introduction, Josh Cohen argues that Fre...)
In this engaging introduction, Josh Cohen argues that Freud shows above all that any thought, word, or action, however apparently trivial, can invite close reading. Indeed, it may be just this insight that provokes so much opposition to psychoanalysis. By reading short extracts from across Freud's work, addressing the neuroses, the unconscious, words, death, and sex, How to Read Freud brings out the paradoxical core of psychoanalytic thinking: that our innermost truths only ever manifest themselves as distortions. Read attentively, our dreams, errors, jokes, and symptoms - in short, our everyday lives - reveal us as masters of disguise, as unrecognizable to ourselves as to others.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KC9SCOA/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0
2005
(With social networking and reality television, self-help ...)
With social networking and reality television, self-help columns, and daytime talk shows, there's an infinite array of platforms to both expose our deepest thoughts and examine the thoughts of others. In this age of non-stop communication, one's privacy is subject to unrelenting examination, intrusion, and attack from the media, the government, friends, family, and complete strangers. So what are we trying to hide? And what are we trying to find out about others? Practicing psychoanalyst and professor of literature Josh Cohen tackles those questions in his study of privacy and personality. Using Sigmund Freud's theories on identity and the ego as a foundation, Cohen weaves through time and place to study an extensive variety of people who unearthed and revealed the rawest form of their selves. From Adam and Eve to the ballerinas in the hit 2010 film Black Swan, from Hester Prynne to British celebrity Katie Price, Cohen finds Freud’s ideas in both fiction and reality alike.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UUHJZRM/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1
2014
(Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen explores the paradoxical pleasur...)
Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen explores the paradoxical pleasures of inactivity and considers four faces of inertia - the burnout, the slob, the daydreamer, and the slacker. Drawing on his personal experiences and on stories from his consulting room, while punctuating his discussions with portraits of figures associated with the different forms of inactivity - Andy Warhol, Orson Welles, Emily Dickinson, and David Foster Wallace - Cohen gets to the heart of the apathy so many of us feel when faced with the demands of contemporary life, and asks how we might live a different and more fulfilled existence.
https://www.amazon.com/Not-Working-Why-Have-Stop/dp/1783782056/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=josh+cohen&qid=1589442645&sr=8-4
2019
educator Psychoanalyst scientist author
Josh Cohen received a Bachelor of Arts in English with honors from the University of Birmingham; a Master of Arts in American Cultural Studies from the University of Exeter; and a Doctor of Philosophy in American Literature from the University of Sussex.
Josh Cohen's key interests are in psychoanalysis - he is a practicing clinician as well as an academic; philosophy, American literature since the mid-nineteenth century and contemporary fiction, and much of his work is at the interface of these areas.
Josh Cohen published his debut work, Spectacular Allegories: Postmodern American Writing and the Politics of Seeing, in 1998. The highly academic book, which was influenced by the work of Walter Benjamin and his "politics of seeing," discusses the manner in which television and film have impacted the way American authors write. His latest book, Not Working: Why we have to stop, published in 2019, radically rethinks our obsession of constant work and seek to live a more fulfilled existence through inactivity. Exploring exhaustion through both literary portrayals and the real burned-out patients he meets in his practice, he investigates the interactions between psychoanalysis, literature, philosophy - and how they all can improve society.
Since 1996, he is a Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, currently working on a book on the place of inertia and lassitude in the history of culture and ideas.
(With social networking and reality television, self-help ...)
2014(Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen explores the paradoxical pleasur...)
2019(In this engaging introduction, Josh Cohen argues that Fre...)
2005(Hitler, wrote Theodor Adorno, imposed "a new categorical ...)
2003Josh Cohen is a devoted Freudian. He shares the conviction of the British psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott that creativity depends on maintaining contact with the "still, silent spot" at the heart of the psyche; withdrawal into solitude, and the benefits this may bring, is one of the themes of his book Not Working: Why We Have to Stop.
Josh Cohen believes that contemporary American novels and films have become a "simulatory universe." Cohen's main thesis in the book Spectacular Allegories: Postmodern American Writing and the Politics of Seeing is that the consumerist nature of film, with its sight and sound, has become overwhelming influences on the novel in postmodern America and that writers are weighed down by the politics of correctness. Cohen is particularly critical of consumerism, which he describes as "a condition in which the narrating subjects' eroding authority reproduces the political importance of the collective." Josh Cohen feels the works of novelists such as Robert Coover, Stephen Dixon, and Jerzy Kosinski have become "cinematographic fiction" because of their reliance on visuality. To show how this trend seems to be unique to American writing, Cohen compares and contrasts writings from America with those from the German district of Northumbria. Rather than consumerism, Cohen believes the Northumbrian writers are more driven by empiricism, which he explains as actual reality versus the perception of reality. By contrast, in America, the politics of seeing has skewed the perception of reality.