
How deep can a kiss go?
Two psychoanalysts discuss confronting the contemporary abyss of intimacy.
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Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst and founding member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research in London. His books include Is It Ever Just Sex, Why Can't We Sleep?, The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression, What is Madness, Hands, and Strictly Bipolar. He writes frequently about contemporary art.
Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in New York; she teaches at The New School for Social Research and is on the board of Pulsion Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is the author, most recently, of On Breathing (2025) and Disorganisation & Sex (2022).

Two psychoanalysts discuss confronting the contemporary abyss of intimacy.