Sexuality and Psychoanalysis: Philosophical Criticisms

Notes on the Contributors

237 notes on the contributors Jens De Vleminck is a junior researcher at the institute of Philosophy (Ku leuven, Belgium). he is a member of the center for Psychoanalysis and Philosophical anthropology (ru nijmegen, The netherlands – Ku leuven) and the Belgian School for Psychoanalysis. his Phd thesis is on human aggression in Freud. Eran Dorfman is an alexander Von humboldt Fellow at the Freie universität Berlin, and a Program director at the collège international de Philosophie, Paris. he completed his Phd on merleau-Ponty and lacan at the university of Paris xii, which was elaborated into a monograph in Springer’s Phaenomenologica series (Réapprendre à voir le monde: MerleauPonty face au miroir lacanien, 2007). he has published numerous articles on phenomenology and psychoanalysis and is currently preparing a book on the foundation of the everyday, drawing on philosophical and psychoanalytical theory. Tomas Geyskens has a Phd in Philosophy. he has published on Freud and deleuze and, with Philippe Van haute, he has co-authored Confusion of Tongues (other Press, 2004), and From Death Instinct to Attachment Theory (other Press, 2007). Ari Hirvonen is adjunct Professor in Philosophy of law at the Faculty of law at the university of helsinki. he is a Senior researcher at the centre of excellency in Foundations of european law and Polity research funded by the academy of Finland. he has published texts on tragedy, continental philosophy, moral and legal philosophy, political theory, psychoanalysis, critical criminology, the Greek idea of justice and evil in law. he has edited Polycentricity: Multiple Scenes of Law (Pluto Press, 1998) and, with Janne Porttikivi, Law and Evil: Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis (routledge, 2009). Adrian Johnston is assistant Professor in the department of Philosophy at the university of new mexico at albuquerque and an assistant teaching analyst at the emory Psychoanalytic institute in atlanta. he is the author Figures_150810.indd 237 22/09/10 10:35 notes on the contributors 238 of Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive (northwestern university Press, 2005), Žižek’s Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity (northwestern university Press, 2008), and Badiou, Žižek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change (northwestern university Press, 2009). Elissa Marder teaches French and comparative literature at emory university where she served as director of the emory Psychoanalytic Studies Program from 2001-2006. her book Dead Time: Temporal Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (Baudelaire and Flaubert) was published by Stanford university Press in 2001. She has also published essays on diverse topics in deconstruction, literature, feminism, film, photography and psychoanalysis. She is currently completing a book entitled The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Psychoanalysis, Technology and Literature. Paul Moyaert studied Philosophy in leuven and Paris and is a trained psychoanalyst and member of the Belgian School for Psychoanalysis. he teaches Philosophy at the institute of Philosophy in leuven and is the author of books on the ethics of lacan (Ethiek en Sublimatie, 1994), neighbourly love, mystic love, the sense for symbols in christianity (De mateloosheid van het Christendom, 1998) and praying with images as a symbolic practice (Iconen en beeldverering, 2007). all books were published by Boom/Sun in amsterdam. Ruth Ronen is Professor of Philosophy at tel aviv university. She teaches and writes about crucial junctions of psychoanalytical thought with philosophy, and is the author of Possible Worlds in Literary Theory (cambridge, 1994), Representing the Real (rodopi, 2002), Aesthetics of Anxiety (Suny, 2009) and Art before the Law (forthcoming). Vladimir Safatle is Professor at universidade de São Paulo (department of Philosophy and institute of Psychology), invited professor at université de Paris Vii and Paris Viii, and a scholar in the erasmus mundus project (2009). he is the author of The Passion of Negative: Lacan and Dialectics, Cynicism and the End of Criticism, Introducing Lacan and Fetishism: To Colonize the Other (all in Portuguese). he is responsible for the Brazilian translation of Theodor adorno’s Gesammelte Schriften and one of the coordinators of the International Society of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy. Figures_150810.indd 238 22/09/10 10:35 239 notes on the contributors Charles Shepherdson is Professor of english at the State university of new york. he has held fellowships with the henry luce Foundation, the Pembroke center for teaching and research at Brown university, the commonwealth center at the university of Virginia, and the institute for advanced Study in Princeton. in 2006 he was appointed by the united...