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.
The philosophy of Judith Butler and the teachings of Jacques Lacan are in close harmony. Both of them speak of bodies that cannot be reduced to mere biological functions or anatomical boundaries. Both believe that sexual difference is both real (in its effects) and impossible (to know): impossible precisely for being real.
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).
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./
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.
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).
Starting with some seemingly contradictory contemporary phenomena, the author makes an examination of the masculine in psychoanalysis, focusing on the phallic economy and the regime to which it corresponds. The crisis of patriarchy and the paternal function has compromised the masculine identity which, as a reaction, amplifies and/ or reintroduces long-standing and equally execrable modalities that are always waiting to be triggered. This rebound compromises the search for and construction of a new masculine, more able to relate to its feminine counterpart and summoned in every discourse.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
However much our patients’ conflicts and symptoms may originate in trauma, they are also grounded in their conscious, preconscious and unconscious definitions of the situation — beliefs or assumptions often grounded in unconscious phantasy, ‘personal myth’ and delusion. We often focus on symptoms and conflicts that are derivatives of more fundamental beliefs or background assumptions that we ourselves may have come to share. Awakening from such counter-transference and exposing the personal myth as mythical, the phantasies as phantastic, and the delusions as delusional is the analytic deconstructive task.
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.
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).
John Gale is 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.
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).
