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Jens De Vleminck, PhD, is a philosopher, sexologist, and psychoanalyst. He is an associated senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Secretary of the Belgian School for Psychoanalysis. He is co-editor of Sexuality and Psychoanalysis: Philosophical Criticisms (Leuven University Press, 2010). Recent publications: "Oedipus and Cain: Brothers in Arms," International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 19 (3) (2010), 172–184; "Rethinking Freud's Death Instinct," L'Evolution Psychiatrique, 81 (4) (2016), 723–741; "Sadism and Masochism on the Procrustean Bed of Hysteria," Psychoanalysis and History, 19 (3) (2017), 379–406; "The Death Instinct, Psychoanalysis' Enigmatic Signifier? Rereading Laplanche, Rereading Freud," DIVISION/Review, 17 (Fall 2017), 47–49.

Simone Drichel is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English & Linguistics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. A cross-disciplinary researcher, her current work traverses the fields of continental philosophy and relational psychoanalysis to tackle questions of vulnerability and relationality, especially as they relate to narcissism as a pressing ethical problem. Her work has appeared in a broad range of journals (American Imago, Levinas Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, Philosophy & Social Criticism, Textual Practice, etc.), and she is the editor of a special issue on "Vulnerability" (SubStance, 42 (3) [2013]) and of a forthcoming special issue on "Relationality" (Angelaki, 24(3) [2019]).

Claire Kahane is Professor Emerita of English at the University at Buffalo, a Research Associate in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, where she trained. A psychoanalytic and feminist critic, she has published numerous [End Page 485] articles on gender theory, modern British and American fiction, gothic literature, and literary representations of Holocaust trauma. She authored Passions of the Voice: Hysteria, Narrative and the Figure of the Speaking Woman, 1850–1915 (1995), and co-edited two anthologies, In Dora's Case (1985) and The (M) Other Tongue: Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Criticism (1985). Currently based in Berkeley, she is working on a book-length study of Ian McEwan's fiction and a picaresque memoir entitled Nine Lives.

Howard M. Katz is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, at the McLean and Massachusetts General Hospitals. More recent publications (The Dreamer's Use of Space; The Athlete's Dream) join his interest in dreaming with a developing view of the neurobiological and developmental roots of athletic endeavors and the place they have in identity and self-esteem systems for athletes, dancers and others. He practices psychoanalysis and psychiatry in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Gavriel Reisner (Ben-Ephraim) received his doctorate in English Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is completing his psychoanalytic training at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis in New York City, and has recently received his New York State Psychoanalyst license. He was Lecturer in English at The Hebrew University, and Lecturer in English and Senior Visiting Lecturer in Multidisciplinary Studies, focusing on Literature, Film, and Psychoanalysis, at Tel Aviv University. He has authored books, articles, chapters in compilations, and reviews on literature and psychoanalysis, as well as poetry and short stories. In 2015 he won the CORST Prize for the best interdisciplinary essay of the year from the American Psychoanalytic Association for "On Ghosted and Ancestral Selves in Hamlet: Loewald's 'Present Life' and Winnicott's 'Potential Space' in Shakespeare's Play."

Frances L. Restuccia is an English Professor at Boston College where she teaches contemporary theory, modernism, and the world novel. She is co-chair of the "Psychoanalytic Practices" [End Page 486] seminar at Harvard's Mahindra Humanities Center. She has published James Joyce and the Law of the Father (Yale, 1989), Melancholics in Love: Representing Women's Depression and Domestic Abuse (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), Amorous Acts: Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer Theory (Stanford, 2006), and in The Blue Box: Kristevan/Lacanian Readings of Contemporary Film (Continuum, 2012). Currently she is working on a book on the relation of Agamben's philosophy to literature and psychoanalysis, with an emphasis on his concept of the messianic.

Richard Wheeler received his Ph.D. from SUNY/Buffalo after studying Shakespeare with C. L. Barber, Murray Schwartz, Norman...

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