Barbara Aramini is a psychologist and a psychotherapist with a Freudian and Lacanian training and is a participant of the SLP (Scuola Lacaniana di Psicoanalisi); along with her private practice she has been working for several years in social work, in projects aimed at sheltering women and minors in difficulty and minors withdrawn from their families. She also works in schools with projects dedicated to children with disabilities and school dropout.
Richard Askay is a Merit Professor of Philosophy at the University of Portland, Oregon. He is co-translator and annotator (with Franz Mayr) of Martin Heidegger’s Zollikon Seminars: Protocols, Conversations, Letters (Northwestern University Press, 2001) which includes his article: Heidegger’s ‘Philosophy and Its Implications for Psychology, Freud, and Psychoanalysis’, and co-author (with Jensen Farquhar) of Apprehending the Inaccessible: Freudian Psychoanalysis and Existential Phenomenology (Northwestern University Press, 2006), and Of Philosophers and Madmen: A Disclosure of Martin Heidegger, Medard Boss, and Sigmund Freud (Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies, 2011) and a play entitled ‘Of Philosophers and Madmen’ performed by the North Pacific Institute for Analytical Psychology in Seattle (2010). He is most recently completing a text entitled Nothing Matters: Heidegger’s Philosophy and Its Importance for Psychotherapy which will be submitted to Oxford University Press. He has published philosophical journal articles on Heidegger’s philosophy, Freudian psychoanalysis, French phenomenology, and critical thinking including ‘Heidegger, the French, and the Body’ in Continental Philosophy Review (1999), ‘Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis – Strange Bedfellows’, in The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology (2012) and ‘Being Unconscious: Freudian Meta- physics and Heideggerian Ontology’, in Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry (2013). He has also delivered guest colloquia at the Philosophical Research Institute of Athens, University of Hawaii, University of Tokyo, and UC Berkeley, among others.
Sergio Benvenuto is a psychoanalyst and philosopher, and lives in Rome. He is researcher at the National Council for Scientific Research (CNR) in Rome, at the former Institute of Psychology. He is the president of Institute for Advanced Studies in Psychoanalysis (ISAP). From 1995 until 2020 he was the editor of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis (EJP) and he is member of the Editorial Board of American Imago. He is a contributor to journals such as Telos, Lettre Internationale (Berlin), Journal for Lacanian Studies, L’évolution psychiatrique, Division/Review, Psychoanalytic Discourse, Journal of American Psychoanalytic Association. He has worked on Freud and Lacan, Wittgenstein and ethics, Plato’s philosophy of Eros, theory of fashion, theory of populism, monotheisms (with J.-L. Nancy). His publications, in many different languages, include ‘Perversion and charity: an ethical approach’ in Perversion. Psychoanalytic Perspectives / Perspectives on Psychoanalysis (eds. D. Nobus & L. Downing, Karnac, 2006); with A. Molino In Freud’s Tracks (New York: Aronson, 2008); ‘Ethics, Wonder and Real in Wittgenstein’ in Ethics and the Philosophy of Culture: Wittgensteinian Approaches, (eds. Y. Gustafsson, C. Kronqvist & H. Nykänen, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2013); What Are Perversions? (Karnac, 2016); and Conversations with Lacan (Routledge, 2020). Personal site and Bibliography: http://www.sergiobenvenuto.it./
Martina Burdet is a psychoanalyst, full member of the Psychoanalytic Association of Madrid (APM), member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society (SPP), as well as a full member of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). As a bilingual psychoanalyst, Martina develops her profession by combining clinical and teaching activity. She was part of the executive of the European Federation (2015-2020). For years she has been dedicated to the research of psychoanalysis at a distance, currently chairing the research group of the European Federation on the subject. She is also a member of the task force on distance analysis created by the IPA. For some years now, her research has focused on love, desire, sexuality and affective bonds in a world marked by the revolutionary impact of new technologies.
Alessandra Campo is a research fellow in theoretical philosophy at the University of Aquila. For several years she has been dealing with the relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis, in particular regarding the metaphysical and cosmological implications of Freudian-Lacanian theory (Bergson, Whitehead and Deleuze). More recently, her research has been devoted to Kantian philosophy, with particular reference to the metaphysical causal link presented as a ‘fact of reason’ in the Critique of Practical Reason and as an ‘anticipation of perception’ in the Critique of Pure Reason. She is the author of several essays and collaborates with several journals. She edited the volume L’uno perverso. L’uno senza l’altro: una perversione? (Textus, 2018) and with Simone Gozzano, Einstein vs Bergson. An Enduring Quarrel on Time (De Gruyter, 2021). She is also the author of two monographs: Tardività. Freud dopo Lacan (Mimesis, 2018) and Fantasma e sensazione. Lacan con Kant (Mimesis, 2017). She has translated Pierre Klossowski’s La somiglianza (Orthotes, 2022).
Donald L Carveth, Ph.D., RP, FIPA is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Social & Political Thought at York University in Toronto. He is a training and supervising analyst in the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis, past Director of the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis, and past Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse. He is the author of The Still Small Voice: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Guilt and Conscience (Karnac, 2013) and Psychoanalytic Thinking: A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2018). Many of his publications are available on his website at http://www.yorku.ca/dcarveth while his video-lectures on psychoanalysis may be found online at www.youtube.com/doncarveth. He is in private practice in Toronto.
Fernando Castrillón Psy.D. is a personal and supervising psychoanalyst and Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is a member of the Elvio Fachinelli Institute for Advanced Studies in Psychoanalysis, based in Rome, serves as faculty with the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) and is on the Board of Directors of the Berkeley Psychoanalytic Society. He is also a Professor in the Community Mental Health Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and served as the founding director of the CIIS practicum site The Clinic Without Walls. Recent articles include ‘No Leaders/No Masses: Virtuality and Contemporary Group Life in the Shadow of Freud’ and ‘Denying Death its Due: Ecological Discourse, Technology and the Unconscious’ (European Journal of Psychoanalysis). His latest book is Coronavirus, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy: Conversations on Pandemics, Politics, and Society (Routledge, 2021), was co-edited with Thomas Marchevsky. Dr Castrillon maintains a private psychoanalytic practice in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Lorenzo Chiesa is a philosopher who has published extensively on psychoanalysis. His works in this field include Subjectivity and Otherness: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan (MIT Press, 2007); Lacan and Philosophy: The New Generation (Re.press, 2014); The Not-Two: Logic and God in Lacan (MIT Press, 2016); and The Virtual Point of Freedom (Northwestern University Press, 2016). He is Director of the Genoa School of Humanities (GSH) and teaches at the Freud Museum, London. Previously, he was Professor of Modern European Thought at the University of Kent, where he founded and directed the Centre for Critical Thought.
Mona Chahoury Charabaty is a Training Analyst and co-founder of Aldep (Lebanese Association for the Development of Psychoanalysis), the first study group at IPA in the Arab countries. She is a member of IPA and a Maître de conférence at St Joseph University, Beirut. She has worked with abused women and children in Montreal, been an expert witness at tribunals and worked with young people dealing with a chronic disease (diabetes and thalassemia). She is the co-author of a book about how to deal with a chronic disease.
Cristiana Cimino MD, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, with a Freudian and Lacanian training. She practices in Rome. She is associate member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (IPA). She is a member of the Institute Elvio Fachinelli. (Rome), has been co-editor of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis. She is on the Editorial Board of Vestigia, has long worked on the thought of the psychoanalyst Elvio Fachinelli, has collaborated with the Istituto di Studi Filosofici of Naples-Rome. She has published several texts in specialised journals, in various languages, including English. She is author of Il discorso amoroso. Dall’amore della madre al godimento femminile (Roma: Manifestolibri, 2015); Tra la vita e la morte. La psicoanalisi scomoda (Roma: Manifestolibri, 2020).
Antonello Correale graduated in medicine, from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, where he specialised in psychiatry. He subsequently attended the analytic training course at the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, of which he is presently an ordinary member. He is the former head of Area II of the Mental Health Department of Roma ASL B (the Italian National Health Service). He has written a number of works including Il campo istituzionale,Quale psicoanalisi per le psicosi? (edited with Luigi Rinaldi), Psicoanalisi e Psichiatria (edited with Giuseppe Berti Ceroni), Borderline with Alonzi, Carnevali, Di Giuseppe and Giachetti, and Il gruppo in psichiatria with Nicoletti. His last books are Area traumatica e campo istituzionale (Ed. Borla, 2006), and Il soggetto nascosto. Un approccio psicoanalitico alla clinica delle tossicodipendenze, with F. Cangiotti and A. Zoppi (2014).
Daniela Scotto di Fasano is a full member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and of IPA; she was member of the editorial staff of Psiche and Spiweb. She is a trainer at IRG in Lugano. She has edited many books and has written both for Italian and foreign journals.
Angelica Federici is a Digital Humanities Research Fellow at the Università degli Studi di Roma Tre. She holds a PhD from Cambridge University on female religious patronage in late medieval Rome. Her research focuses primarily on the role and perception of women during the Middle Ages.
Massimo Filippi is a full professor of neurology at Vita e Salute University, Milan, Italy and has worked for many years on the question of the animal from a philosophical and political perspective. He is a member of the editorial board of Liberazioni. Rivista di critica antispecista and collaborates with Il manifesto and the Corriere della Sera. He has published more than a hundred essays in books and journals and the following volumes (alone or in collaboration with others): Ai confini dell’umano (Ombre Corte 2010), I margini dei diritti animali (Ortica 2011), Natura infranta (Ortica 2013), Crimini in tempo di pace (Elèuthera 2013), Penne e pellicole (Mimesis 2014), Sento dunque sogno (Ortica 2016), Altre specie di politica (Mimesis 2016), L’invenzione della specie (Ombre Corte 2016), Questioni di specie (Elèuthera 2017), Genocidi animali (Mimesis 2018) e Il virus e la specie (Mimesis 2020). He also edited Nell’albergo di Adamo (Mimesis 2010), Corpi che non contano (Mimesis 2015), a monographic issue of ‘aut aut’ entitled Mostri e altri animali, Jean-Luc Nancy, La sofferenza è animale (Mimesis 2019) and Divenire invertebrato (Ombre Corte 2020) He has also translated several books.
Marco Francesconi is a neurologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst member of IIPG; he teaches psychodynamic psychology at University of Pavia. He taught general psychology and psychoanalytic theory at AIPP in Milan. He is a trainer at the Psychotherapy School of IRG in Lugano. He has edited many books and written both for Italian and foreign journals.
John Galeis the president of the International Network of Psychoanalytic Practices (INPP) and an editor of the online journal Vestigia. A former Benedictine monk, he taught philosophy and patristics before leaving the priesthood. He was the director of a number of organisations in the field of therapeutic communities specializing in the treatment of psychosis, and of traumatized ex-soldiers who had become homeless. He was a board member of ISPS (UK). He has edited several books and is the author of many scholarly articles at the interface of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and spirituality.
Rosa de Geest is a PhD student and teaching assistant at the department of psychoanalysis and clinical consulting at Ghent University. She also works in private practice in Flanders, Belgium.
John Shannon Hendrix is the author of Unconscious Thought in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2015), and Architecture and Psychoanalysis: Peter Eisenman and Jacques Lacan (Peter Lang, 2006). He is a co-editor of Architecture and the Unconscious, with Lorens Holm (Routledge, 2016). He is a member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies in Architecture. He teaches classes at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island.
R.D. Hinshelwood is Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, and previously Consultant Psychotherapist in the National Health Service, including a period as Director of the Cassel Hospital. He is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is the author of several books on Kleinian psychoanalysis, and on the application of psychoanalytic ideas in the psychiatric services, as well a recent book on research in the clinical setting (Research on the Couch 2013), and on countertransference (Countertransference and Alive Moments 2016).
Lev Kenaan is professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Haifa. She is the author of Pandora’s Senses: The Feminine Character of the Ancient Text (Wisconsin, 2008) and The Ancient Unconscious: Psychoanalysis and Classical Texts (Oxford, 2019). She is the editor of the Literary Journal, Dappim: Research in Literature.
Roger Kennedy is a Training Analyst and Past President of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is a Child Psychiatrist and was Consultant at the Cassel Hospital for 30 years, and was Chair of The Child and Family Practice, London where he remains a director. He has written many papers and several books. The most recent books include The Psychic Home (2014), Tolerating Strangers in Intolerant Times (2018), and The Power of Music (2020).
Joelle Khoury is a Lebanese-American citizen based in Beirut. Her doctoral thesis in philosophy was entitled ‘Théâtralité et Désir de Mort Créateur chez Gilles Deleuze’. She is a contemporary-classical and jazz composer and pianist, as well as a lecturer at the American University of Beirut and at the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music.
Don Kunze taught architecture studio, theory, general arts criticism, and seminars on theory, film, and landscape architecture at Penn State, University at Buffalo, LSU (Landscape), Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center (Virginia Tech); and conducted workshops at South Dakota State University, Frankfort University of Applied Sciences, and Carleton University. He is the author of a book on Giambattista Vico and maintains on-line publications dealing with psychoanalysis, virtuality, the uncanny, and critical theory.
Leonard Lawlor is Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University (USA). He is the author of eight books, including TheChallenge of Bergsonism (Continuum, 2003); The Implications of Immanence (Fordham University Press, 2006); and most recently, From Violence to Speaking Out (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).
Federico Leoni lives in Milan and teaches ethics at the University of Verona. He is the co-director of the Tiresia Research Centre for Philosophy and Psychoanalysis at the same university and a co-editor of the journal ChiasmiInternational which is devoted to the thought of Merleau-Ponty. He is the author of many articles in Italian and in international journals. He edited the volume ‘Sade, Masoch. Due etiche dell’immanenza’ (aut aut n. 382/2019). His books include: Habeas corpus. Sei genealogie del corpo occidentale (Bruno Mondadori, 2008); L’idiota e la lettera. Saggi sul Flaubert di Sartre (Orthotes, 2013); Jacques Lacan. Una scienza di fantasmi (Orthotes Editrice, 2019); Henri Bergson.Segni di vita (Feltrinelli Editore, 2021).
Franco Lolli is a member of the Associazione Lacaniana Italiana di Psicoanalisi (ALIPSI) and of the Espace Analytique, and president of Litorale (Culture, Research and Training in Psychoanalysis). He teaches at various psychotherapy training schools and is the author of essays: the most recent being Vivere la pulsione. Il concetto di soddisfazione in psicoanalisi (Orthotes, 2022). He is a clinical supervisor in public and private facilities, practicing as an analyst in the Marche region.
Emilio Maggio studied mass communications theory and technique; he deals with cinema and expressive instances of the entertainment industry. He has carried out research and dissemination about sub-cultural and counter-cultural expressions. He is member of the editorial board of the critical anti-speciesist journal Liberazioni. Together with Massimo Filippi, he is the author of Penne e Pellicole. Gli animali, la letteratura e il cinema (Mimesis). He collaborated on the digital version of the journal Alfabeta and currently contributes to Dinamo Press, Opera Viva Magazine, Effimera and specialist cinema magazines Lo Specchio Scuro and Filmidee.
Victor Mazin, Ph.D., practicing psychoanalyst, born in Murmansk, Soviet Union, in 1958. Graduated from Smolensk Pedagogical Institute, Department of Natural Sciences (1981), and East-European Institute of Psychoanalysis (1999). As associate professor and head of the Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the State University of Sankt Petersburg, Victor Mazin focuses his research and teaching on theory of cinema and history of avant-garde cinema.
Reitske Meganck is Associate Professor of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology at Ghent University. Her current work mainly focuses on psychotherapy research using mixed method and case study designs. She has published on psychoanalytic topics, process and outcome research, and methodological issues in current clinical psychology research, and she is one of the founders of the Single Case Archive. She has a private psychoanalytic practice in Ghent, Belgium.
Sophie de Mijolla-Mellor is a psychoanalyst in Paris, Emeritus Professor at the Sorbonne, Director of the review Topique and heads the International Association for Interactions of Psychoanalysis. She is the author of 20 books and 200 scientific papers, her main axis of research being the interactions between psychoanalysis and civilisation.
Isabel Millar is a PhD researcher in psychoanalysis, philosophy and contemporary critical theory at Kingston University, School of Art working on Sex and Artificial Intelligence. Her publications include: Before We Even Know What We Are We Fear To Lose It: The Missing Object of the Primal Scene. In C. Neill. (ed.) Bladerunner 2049: Some Lacanian Thoughts. London: Palgrave Macmillan (Forthcoming); The Sexual Relation Does Not Exist, But Does My Sex-Bot Know? Journal of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research 29 (2019); Ex-Machina: Sex, Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence. Psychoanalytic Perspectieven “On Ecrits” 36 (4) (2018); Black Mirror: From Lacan’s Lathouse to Miller’s Speaking Body. Psychoanalytische Perspectieven “Nothing Less Than The Object A” 36 (2) (2018). She is also a freelance writer, contributor and co-editor of everydayanalysis and blogs at hystericsdiscourse.wordpress.com.
Stephen Mosblech is an artist and psychoanalyst-in-formation based in San Francisco. He is a member of programming committee for Lacan School of Psychoanalysis and has taught at the intersection of art and awareness praxes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Esalen Institute (Big Sur, CA) and Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche’s Deer Park Institute in Northern India. His early theatre works were staged in New York, Germany, Sweden and Japan. Recent textual and image-based works in the ambit of psychoanalysis are published in European Journal of Psychoanalysis, DIVISION/ Review, Critica and exhibited at Rotterdam Photo Festival and the CICA Museum (South Korea). He is the recipient of a Scholar Award from Division 39, the psychoanalytic wing of the APA (2022-23)..
Jean-Luc Nancy [1940-2021] taught philosophy at the University of Strasburg and at the University of California San Diego. His works include: with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Le titre de la lettre. Une lecture de Lacan (Paris: Galilée, 1973) and L’Absolu littéraire (Paris: Le Seuil, 1978); La communauté désœuvrée (Paris: 1986, 2001); L’expérience de la liberté (Paris: Galilée, 1988); Être singulier pluriel (Paris: 1996); Hegel, L’inquiétude du négatif (Paris: 1997); Le regard du portrait (Paris: Galilée, 2000); L’ « il y a » du rapport sexuel (Paris: Galilée, 2001).
Chris Nicholson is the Head of the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. A Senior Lecturer and Course Director for BA Therapeutic Communication and Therapeutic Organisations, Chris has devised two new degrees, BA Therapeutic Care, now in its third year, and BA Childhood Studies – commencing Oct 2018. Chris sits on the Community of Communities Advisory Group for Children and Young People at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and, with a team of colleagues, developed the Core Competency Framework for Therapeutic Communities. Chris also provides training, consultation and supervision to therapeutic services in and the UK, Greece and India. His papers and reviews are published in the International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, Psychodynamic Practice and Gravesiana, the Journal of the Robert Graves Society for which he sits on the Editorial Board.
Dany Nobus is Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology at Brunel University London, Founding Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council, and former Chair and Fellow of the Freud Museum London. He is the author, most recently, of The Law of Desire: On Lacan’s ‘Kant with Sade’ (Palgrave, 2017), and he has published numerous essays on the history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis in academic and professional journals.
Juan Manuel Rodriguez Penagos is a psychoanalyst with a PhD in fundamental psychopathology and psychoanalysis from the University of Paris-7 and a Master’s in psychoanalytic theory from CIEP Mexico. He teaches at a number of universities in Mexico and has given conference papers in Mexico, Brazil and France. Juan Manuel is a founding member of the Mexican Psychoanalytic Forum and the International Society for Psychoanalysis and Philosophy. He is the author of Temporalité et Psychose: une étude de trois cas (Éditions universitaires européennes, 2010) and of many articles.
Leonardo Provini is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist. His second level specialisation degree was awarded by La Sapienza University, Rome. He works as assistant civil court-appointed expert and he is training at the Centro Giorgio Fregosi Spazio Sicuro in Rome which treats children and adolescents who have been abused or mistreated.
Francesco Raparelli earned a PhD in philosophy. He collaborates with the Rome University Roma Tre, and is among the founders of the Libera Università Metropolitana (LUM) at ESC Atelier (Rome), of which he is an activist. He has published: La lunghezza dell’Onda. Fine della sinistra e nuovi movimenti (2009) and Rivolta o barbarie. La democrazia del 99 per cento contro i signori della moneta (2012). He has edited Istituzione e differenza. Attualità di Ferdinand de Saussure (2014).
Ellie Ragland taught critical theory, psychoanalytic theory, as well as comparative literature and world literature. She is the author of over 100 articles, has lectured nationally and internationally at over 100 universities and colloquia. She has held an NEH Grant, a Humanities Fellowship at the University of Illinois and has received other honours including the Gold Chalk Award from the University of Missouri for excellence in teaching. She has also been nominated to be listed in Who’s Who in Humanities Higher Education and is the Frederick A. Middlebush Chair of English. Her books include Rabelais and Panurge: A Psychological Approach to Literary Character (Rodopi, 1976), Jacques Lacan and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis (University of Illinois Press, 1985), Essays on the Pleasures of Death: From Freud to Lacan (Routledge, 1995), The Logic of Sexuation: From Aristotle to Lacan (State University of New York Press, 2004). Her edited and co-edited books include Lacan and the Subject of Language (Routledge, 1991), Critical Essays on Jacques Lacan (Macmillan, 1999), Lacan: Topologically Speaking (Other Press, 2004) and Jacques Lacan and the Logic of Structure: Topology and language in psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2015); Lacan and Hysteria: The Logic of Paradox (forthcoming with Routledge). She edited the Lacanian journal Newsletter of the Freudian Field from 1987 to 1994. She is now the editor of (Re)-Turn: A Journal of Lacanian Studies. She reads regularly for journals and presses. She is also finishing a dissertation in psychoanalysis to be granted by The University of Paris where she taught in the department of psychoanalysis in 1994-1995.
Satish Reddy M.D. is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is a full member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association as well as a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the American College of Physicians. He is board certified in Psychiatry and Internal Medicine. He is on the faculty of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine & Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York. Satish is a member of the IPA Committee to the United Nations. His interests are in psychoanalysis and religion and has published several articles on the subject. They include: ‘Psychoanalytic Process in the Bhagavad Gita’, ‘Time in Hinduism’ and ‘Spiritual Conversion in the Bhagavad Gita’.
Enrico Redaelli teaches Etica e filosofia della persona at University of Verona. He deals with contemporary philosophy and its relationship with anthropology and psychoanalysis. Among his publications are Il nodo dei nodi (Ets 2008), L’incanto del dispositivo. Foucault dalla microfisica alla semiotica del potere (Ets 2011) and Judith Butler. Il sesso e la legge (Feltrinelli 2023). He edited the books La lezione di Pasolini (Mimesis 2020) and with F. Vandoni and P. Pitasi Legge, desiderio, capitalismo. L’anti-Edipo tra Lacan e Deleuze (Bruno Mondadori 2014). He is a professor of Transformation of Social Ties at the IRPA (Istituto di Ricerca di Psicoanalisi Applicata) in Milano and a member of the research centre ‘Tiresia – Filosofia e psicoanalisi’ at University of Verona.
Muriel Rojas Zamudio is a psychoanalyst, practitioner in artistic mediations and a multireferential art therapist, trainer and supervisor. Her life course and clinic have enabled her to work regularly on inter-gender relations, gender identities or even problems related to the reconciliation of various social roles. Author of several books and papers, she is interested in contemporary forms of dialogue between art and therapy, psychic and domestic lives.
Jeremy Soh is an anthropologist and a psychoanalyst at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis (LSP), with an extensive professional background in Community Mental Health in San Francisco. He earned his PhD in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow studying trauma, memory and political violence, as well as climate change and alternative concepts of mind, technology and environment in indigenous worlds. Alongside his clinical practice, he researches and lectures in psychoanalysis, anthropology and philosophy, specialising in contemporary technological experience, the logics of the drive, and comparative concepts of the psyche and the subject. He is currently working on a theoretical and ethnographic project entitled Psychic and Technological Apparatuses which examines the relations between digital and symbolic life in the present context of computerised society, with particular attention to its effects on psychic individuation and free association. He is currently also involved in various working groups on technology, topology and German Idealism. He maintains a private practice in Berkeley, California.
Raluca Soreanu Ph.D. is Wellcome Trust Fellow in Medical Humanities, Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck College, London; Psychoanalyst, Effective Member of Círculo Psicanalítico do Rio de Janeiro; Member of The College of Psychoanalysts – UK; she is the author of Working-through Collective Wounds: Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising (Palgrave, 2018).
Luke Thurston is Director of Postgraduate Research in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University, UK. He is the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook to the GhostStory, the author of Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism and James Joyce and theProblem of Psychoanalysis, and the translator of Jean Laplanche’s The Unfinished CopernicanRevolution. His current project is a study of modernism and psychoanalysis, focusing on May Sinclair and David Jones.
Oxana Timofeeva is an Associate Professor at the European University at St. Petersburg, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a member of the artistic collective Chto Delat (What is to be done?), a deputy editor of the journal Stasis and the author of The History of Animals (London: Bloomsbury, 2018) and Introduction to the Erotic Philosophy of Georges Bataille (Moscow: 2009).
Delia Vaccarello [1960 – 2019] was an Italian journalist and writer, as well as an activist for LGBT rights. She conducted lectures regarding journalism in Bologna and Urbino, and edited columns in the national periodical press related to anti-discrimination issues. A self-declared lesbian, in 2005, she collaborated on a project in the municipality of Venice for citizen education regarding homophobia. For Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, she curated a multi-volume anthology on love between women.
Jens De Vleminck, PhD, is a philosopher, sexologist and psychoanalyst. He is a titular member of the Belgian School for Psychoanalysis (EBP-BSP) and is currently working at the University Psychiatric Centre KU Leuven (Belgium). He is an associated senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and a guest professor at Odisee University College (KU Leuven).
Chenyang Wang is an early career researcher in the field of psychosocial Studies. He completed his PhD thesis on Lacan and time at Birkbeck College, University of London. His work focuses on the intersections between psychoanalytic theory and social research.
Bogdan Wolf is a psychoanalyst and author of two books on Lacan, and a co-editor of the acclaimed collection The Later Lacan (Suny Press, 2007). His third book will be on anxiety and love. He also authored and translated several articles. He is a member of the New Lacanian School.
Zeina Zerbé is a clinical psychologist and a psychoanalytical psychotherapist. She is also a lecturer at the Saint-Joseph University of Beirut. She worked for more than ten years in Palestinian camps in Lebanon as a consultant psychologist and a psychotherapist for local and international NGOs. She was invited to participate at local and international levels in conferences, seminars, and publications on the themes of trauma, war, refugee, and identity issues. Interested and intrigued by the nexus between the political phenomena and its psychosocial repercussions, she initiated, in 2013, personal research that explores the psychosocial and political triggers of the Lebanese civil war. She focuses particularly on various episodes in the Lebanese civil war and the lived experiences of politicians and the militias’ former soldiers. Through her work, she suggests an understanding of unresolved traumas generated by cycles of violence, which are partially but deeply related to the current psycho-social and political impairment. Broadly, the objective of her research is to contribute, through the psychoanalytical perspective and analysis, to work on collective memory and the writing of history.
Hub Zwart studied philosophy and psychology at Radboud University, Nijmegen and defended his thesis (cum laude) in 1993. In 2000 he was appointed as full professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Science (RU Nijmegen). In 2003, he became director of the Centre for Society and Genomics (CSG) and in 2005 Director of the Institute for Science in Society. His research focuses on philosophical and ethical dimensions of bioscience (synthetic biology, nanomedicine, brain research) from a continental philosophical perspective (dialectics, psychoanalysis), while special attention is given to genres of the imagination (novels, theatre, poetry, movies) as windows into emerging techno-scientific research fields. He is co-editor-in-chief of the open access Springer journal Life Sciences, Society and Policy.
Laela Zwollo is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Tilburg – Tilburg School of Theology in the Netherlands and has published numerous articles on the following topics: the influence of ancient Greek philosophy on early Christian thinkers, in particular St. Augustine and Platonists (such as Plotinus and Porphyry); Gnostic movements in early Christianity, in particular, Manichaeism; and early Christian theology, such as the interpretation of Genesis, the creation story and humans as images of God. She is also the author of St. Augustine and Plotinus: The Human Mind As Image of the Divine (Leiden: Brill 2018) and is currently preparing an academic monograph on the role of Porphyry in Augustine’s City of God. Additionally, she is the secretary of the Steering Committee of the Netherlands Centre for Patristic Research (CPO); co-chairman and meetings coordinator of The Dutch Gnostic Study Group (2017-2022) in collaboration with Prof. A.P. Bos.
