Disorganisation and Sex By Jamieson Webster. Brussels/London:  Divided Publishing, 2022.  240 pp

Jamieson Webster’s Disorganisation and Sex is a delightfully disorganized book. I think I made the mistake of reading the book sequentially, but this is not actually necessary and may even be a bad idea. It’s a book that in its nonlinear “disorganization”—much like the polymorphous organization of the drives and the condensed imaginal kaleidoscope of dreams—is a collection of essays organized by a small number of discernible but important themes; and it works well when the reader delves in at the first available opening and follows their nose, starting with the sectioned table of contents. It’s a book to dander about in especially in its practice of dream interpretation which allows the reader to meaningfully engage with the technique of working with dreams including those of Freud, Adorno, Webster’s analysands, and Webster’s own dreams. The dreams, intermingled throughout the book’s essays, are exemplars of techne and draw upon context, history, displacement, condensation, and interpretation. Playful, open, and non-masterful in interpretative focus, the interpretive dream work could be said to intertwingle the essays as a Wakeful Joyce (Joyce 19391) might put it. The book’s consideration of sexuality is self-consciously Freudian and takes Lacan’s return to Freud to heart, offering up a version of Freud’s Freudian unconscious with subtlety, humor, and a Lacanian twist. Webster argues for the indispensability of Freudian sexuality to contemporary psychoanalytic practice in areas such as phantasy, the drives—specifically the death drive—and the symptomatic organization of anxiety and pleasure/unpleasure.

Filled with the personality of Webster, including her preoccupations, associations, and clinical vignettes, the writing carries the style and form of a writer in love with psychoanalysis and untiringly fascinated by her patients, or more correctly, the speech provocations of her patients. The reader, however, shoul