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  • Contributors

Sergio Benvenuto is a psychoanalyst and philosopher. He is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Sciences and Technologies of Cognition of the Italian Council for Scientific Research (ISTC-CNR) in Rome and editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis, which he founded in 1995. He teaches psychoanalytic clinical practice in several institutes in Naples, Kiev, Moscow, and Mexico City and has authored books and papers translated into several languages, including: Mechta Lacana [Dream Lacan] in Russian (Aleteyya, 2006); with A. Molino, In Freud’s Tracks (Jason Aronson, 2008); Accidia: La passione dell’indifferenza [Sloth: The Passion of Indifference] (il Mulino, 2008); and La gelosia [Jealousy] (il Mulino, 2011). His book What Are Perversions?: Sexuality, Ethics, Psychoanalysis (Karnac, 2016) has now appeared in English.

Simone Drichel is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Linguistics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She has research interests in the areas of continental philosophy, postcolonial theory, and psychoanalysis, and is working on a monograph on postcolonial narcissism. Her published work includes essays on Margaret Atwood, J. M. Coetzee, Janet Frame, and Emmanuel Levinas. She is a founding member of the Postcolonial Studies Research Network at Otago University and was responsible for the Network’s 2015 event “Relationality: A Symposium.”

Helene Keable is a Training and Supervising analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Society, and maintains a private psychiatric and psychoanalytic practice with adults, children, and adolescents. Her research interests include the history of child analytic technique in different analytic environments. In 2008, Dr. Keable received the American Academy [End Page 381] of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s Norbert and Charlotte Rieger Pschodynamic Award for her paper, “Defenses: A Therapeutic Tool and Outcome Measure.” She has written on Berta Bornstein and the Freudian tradition and recently co-authored a paper on the Practice Parameter for psychodynamic psychotherapy in children and adolescents.

Juan Pablo Lucchelli was born in Buenos Aires. He is a psychoanalyst in Paris and a member of the World Association of Psychoanalysis. He has authored articles and books on philosophy and anthropology, as well as on psychoanalysis. His most recent book is Lacan avec et sans Lévi-Strauss (Éditions Cécile Defaut, 2014).

Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Columbia University, 2016), Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis (University of Nebraska, 2013), and other works.

Jon Morgan Stokkeland works as a psychiatrist at the Stavanger University Hospital, Norway, and teaches at the Institute of Psychotherapy, Oslo.

Nellie L. Thompson is an historian and psychoanalyst, and a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, where she serves as Curator of the Brill Library’s Archives and Special Collections. She is a member of the Board of the Sigmund Freud Archives. Her research interests include the role of women in the psychoanalytic movement, both as institutional actors and as contributors to psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice. She has published papers on the psychoanalytic contributions of mid-twentieth-century American and émigré analysts. With Peter Loewenberg, she co-edited 100 Years of the IPA: Centenary of the International Psychoanalytical Association, 1910–2010, Evolution and Change (IPA, 2011). More recently, she edited Play, Gender, Therapy: Selected Papers of Eleanor Galenson (Karnac, 2015), and published “Phyllis Greenacre: Screen Memories and Reconstruction” in On Freud’s “Screen Memories” (Karnac, 2015). [End Page 382]

Hub Zwart studied philosophy and psychology. From 2000, he has been Professor of Philosophy on the Faculty of Science at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, where he is currently Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society. Building on Hegel, Heidegger, Lacan, and Foucault, his research addresses from a continental philosophic perspective societal and philosophic issues in the emerging life sciences, with a particular focus on genomics, synthetic biology, and brain research. He gives special attention to genres of the imagination (novels, drama, poetry, and art) as providing oblique perspectives on contemporary techno-scientific research practices. [End Page 383]

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