Josh Cohen & Deborah Levy: Losers
Tuesday 25 January 2022, 7 p.m. · 52 minutes![](https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/300_filter/images/2/8/7/7/3647782-1-eng-GB/Josh%20Cohen%20eventbrite.jpg 300w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/400_filter/images/2/8/7/7/3647782-1-eng-GB/Josh%20Cohen%20eventbrite.jpg 400w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/800_filter/images/2/8/7/7/3647782-1-eng-GB/Josh%20Cohen%20eventbrite.jpg 800w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/1200_filter/images/2/8/7/7/3647782-1-eng-GB/Josh%20Cohen%20eventbrite.jpg 1200w)
In his long essay Losers (Peninsula) psychoanalyst and critic Josh Cohen examines, with characteristic wit and acuity, what our culture loses by undervaluing what Elizabeth Bishop famously called ‘the art of losing.’
Drawing on a wide range of sources and inspirations from mythology, psychology and literature, including Freud, Winnicott, Beckett, Kafka, Thomas Bernard and Robert Walser, Cohen was in conversation with novelist and essayist Deborah Levy, who has written of Losers ‘With compassion, skill and verve, Josh Cohen eloquently dismantles societal and personal delusions about winning and losing.’
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