{"product_id":"losers","title":"Losers","description":"Product Description You are a loser. This isnt a personal slight, but an impersonal truth of the species, writes Josh Cohen in this essay about love, literature and politics. Today, no figure in more ridiculed and reviled than the loser. In the wake of recent political upsets, the bruised liberal dreams of winning it all back. Meanwhile a swollen self-help industry continues to grow with a single, seductive promise: read this, and join the ranks of the winners. But being a loser isnt a personal failing; its an essential part of being human. In this remarkable essay, at once political, philosophical and very funny, psychoanalyst Josh Cohen teaches us to take pride in embracing our inner loser. Review \u003cp\u003eJosh Cohen has made perhaps the most pernicious, offensive and distracting word in the English language of amazing and illuminating interest. This is a remarkable and clarifying book.\u003cstrong\u003eAdam Phillips\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith compassion, skill and verve, Josh Cohen eloquently dismantles societal and personal delusions about winning and losing. This is exactly the conversation we need to be having right now.\u003cstrong\u003eDeborah Levy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEloquent, urgent, this breath-taking essay, bristles with wit and analytic understanding. Our social settlements, our lying politicians, our very language of winners and losers has never undergone this kind of rigorous dissection before. A tour de force - or should I say a losers triumph\u003cstrong\u003eLisa Appignanesi\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJosh Cohens\u003cem\u003eLosers\u003c\/em\u003efeels necessary: a profound meditation and an ethical salve for a world that wounds us with its increasing ethos of success-at-any-cost. With gentleness, he guides us through the paradoxes of humility, uncertainty, neutrality, and the excess of shame and humiliation that lurks behind todays peculiar brand of triumphalism. --\u003cstrong\u003eJamieson Webster\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e About the Author Josh Cohen is Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is the author of The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark (Granta, 2013) and How to Read Freud (Granta, 2005), and his essays and articles regularly appear in the Guardian, the New Statesman and the TLS.","brand":"Peninsula Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45877860401350,"sku":"DADAX1999922344","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/9389\/1014\/files\/5126obzzRhL.jpg?v=1779678343","url":"https:\/\/ergodemedia.com\/products\/losers","provider":"Ergodemedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}