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  • Contributors

Joseph J. Avery is a National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellow at Princeton University. Avery is a member of Princeton's Interdisciplinary Humanities Psychoanalysis Reading Group, and he is a Graduate Associate in the Program in Law and Public Affairs. Among his current research interests, he is exploring the intersection of Freud's thought with issues in criminal law, such as witness credibility, and issues in civil law, including chronic pain. Avery holds a B.A. in economics and philosophy from New York University, a J.D. from Columbia Law School, and a M.A. in Psychology from Princeton University, where he works closely with renowned Freud scholar, Susan Sugarman.

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.

Lucas Charafeddine Bulamah is a psychologist and psychoanalyst residing and practicing in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He received a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Sao Paulo, where he is currently enrolled as a PhD student, investigating and expanding upon the ideas of Donald Winnicott regarding the unknowability of the isolated, core self. Bulamah is the author of the book History of an Un-written rule: The Proscription of Male Homosexuality in the Psychoanalytic Movement (Annablume). He is currently interested in psychoanalysis as it applies to social and political theory, postmodern and post-structuralist philosophy, queer theory, and the history of psychoanalytic institutions.

Paul Gordon is Professor of Comparative Literature/Humanities at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His recent works include Dial 'M' for Mother: A Freudian Hitchcock and Art as the Absolute: Art's Relation to Metaphysics.

Joanna Kellond is Lecturer in Humanities at the University of Brighton, UK, where she teaches literature, philosophy, and critical theory, with a focus on feminist and psychoanalytic theory. Her PhD (University of Sussex, 2015) explored the cultural theory of Freud and Winnicott. More broadly, her research is concerned with the place of psychoanalysis as a critical discourse in the humanities. She has published in the journals Free Associations and Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, and is currently completing a monograph on the reception of Winnicott's thinking in the humanities and social sciences.

Moriya Rachmani is a multidisciplinary researcher, whose primary research interests are trauma and ritual, holocaust studies, poetry, psychoanalysis, and neuropsychology. Her doctorate dissertation at Ben-Gurion University deals with the role ritual practice plays in preserving self-identity in traumatic circumstances in the Nazi concentration camps. She works as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Trauma, Coping & Growth Lab, Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center and School of Education, Bar-Ilan University where her research focuses on neuropsychological and psychoanalytic aspects of repeated exposure to trauma. She has also worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the the Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, Bar-Ilan University. Her poetry book A Heart Fingering Through a Wall, A City Without Shadow (Tel-Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad and Gamma, 2016) was awarded the Israeli Ministry of Culture Prize for a poetry book.

Ellen Handler Spitz is a writer whose work concerns psychological perspectives on the arts and the aesthetic lives of children. A fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities, she is also a member of the Scholars' Council at the Erikson Institute, Austen Riggs Center. She writes for public media as well as academic journals and is the author of seven books, including Art and Psyche, Image and Insight, Inside Picture Books, and Magritte's Labyrinth. She holds the title of Honors College Professor at the University of Maryland (UMBC).

Richard Wheeler received...

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