NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS

Néstor Braunstein is a psychoanalyst, a professor and the director of the Center for Psychoanalytic Research and Studies (CIEP) in Mexico City, where he teaches. His books include Psiquiatría, teoría del sujeto, psicoanálisis (hacia Lacan) (1980), Goce (1990), La jouissance: un concept lacanien (1992), Por el camino de Freud (2001), and Ficcioniaro de psicoanálisis (2001). He has edited eleven volumes of the Coloquios de la fundación.

Bernard Burgoyne is a psychoanalyst and a member of the Ecole européenne de psychanalyse. He is professor of psychoanalysis and head of the Centre for Psychoanalysis at the Institute for Social Science and Health Research at Middlesex University. He co-edited with Mary Sullivan The Klein-Lacan Dialogues (1997) and edited Drawing the Soul: Schemas and Models in Psychoanalysis (2000).

Tim Dean is a professor of English at the University at Buffalo, where he teaches psychoanalysis, queer theory, and poetic modernism. He is author of Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious (1991) and Beyond Sexuality (2000), as well as the co-editor of Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (2001). His forthcoming book is The Otherness of Art.

Judith Feher-Gurewich is a psychoanalyst, the director of the Lacan Seminar at the Humanities Center at Harvard University, and a professor in the doctoral program for psychoanalysis and psychotherapy at New York University. She is also series editor at the Other Press, New York. She edited with Michel Tort Lacan avec la psychanalyse américaine (1996) and Lacan and the New Wave of American Psychoanalysis (1999), and is a member of Espace analytique, Centre de recherches freudiennes, in Paris.

Darian Leader is a practicing psychoanalyst active in London. He is the co-author with Judy Groves of Lacan for Beginners (1995) and Introducing Lacan (1996). He has also published Why Do Women Write More Letters Than They Send? A Meditation on the Loneliness of the Sexes (1996, published in the UK as Why Do Women Write More Letters Then They Post?), Promises Lovers Make When It Gets Late (1997), and Freud’s Footnotes (2000).

Catherine Liu is a professor of French, cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton (2000). A first novel, Oriental Girls Desire Romance (1997) will be followed by Suicide of an Assistant Professor (2004). She is completing Under the Star of Paranoia: Astrology, Conspiracy, Celebrity.

Deborah Anna Luepnitz is a member of the clinical faculty of the department of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine. She is the author of The Family Interpreted: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Family Therapy (1988) and of Schopenhauer’s Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas (2002). She practices psychoanalysis in Philadelphia.

Dany Nobus is a senior lecturer in psychology and psychoanalytic studies at Brunel University and a visiting scholar at the Boston Graduate School for Psychoanalysis. He is the editor of Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis (1999) and the author of Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis (2000).

Jean-Michel Rabaté is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania and has published books on Joyce, Pound, Beckett, modernism, and literary theory. Recent publications include the edited volume Lacan in America (2000), James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism (2001), Jacques Lacan and the Subject of Literature (2001), and The Future of Theory (2002).

Diana Rabinovich is a psychoanalyst and a professor at the University of Buenos Aires, where she has been the chair and founder of the department of psychoanalytical methodolology. Her books include Sexualidad y significante (1986), El concepto de objeto en la teoría psicoanalítica (1988), Una clínica de la pulsión: las impulsiones (1989), La angustia y el deseo del Otro (1993), Modos lógicos del amor de transferencia (1992), El deseo del psicoanalista: Libertad y determinación en psicoanálisis (1999).

Elisabeth Roudinesco is a psychoanalyst, a historian, and a director of studies at the University of Paris VII. Her books include Jacques Lacan & Co.: A History of Psychoanalysis in France 1925–1985 (1990), Jacques Lacan, Esquisse d’une vie, histoire d’un système de pensée (1993; in English, Jacques Lacan, 1997), Généalogies (1994) and Pourquoi la psychanalyse? (1999; in English, Why Psychoanalysis? 2002). She is the co-author with Michel Plon of the Dictionnaire de la psychanalyse (1997) and with Jacques Derrida of De quoi demain . . . Dialogue (2001).

Charles Shepherdson, professor of English and comparative literature at the University of New York at Albany, is the author of Vital Signs: Nature, Culture, Psychoanalysis (2000). He has published numerous articles on phenomenology, theory, tragedy, and Lacan. He is completing a book on Lacan and Merleau-Ponty.

Colette Soler, professor in philosophy, psychoanalyst, and doctor in psychology. She is a member of the International Association of the Forums of the Lacanian Field and of the Ecole de Psychanalyse du Champ lacanien. She has published La maldición sobre el sexo (2000), L’Aventure littéraire ou la psychose inspirée: Rousseau, Joyce, Pessoa (2001) and Ce que Lacan disait des Femmes (2003). She is the co-author and editor of Psychanalyse, pas la pensée unique: Histoire d’une crise singulière (2000).

Joseph Valente is a professor of English and critical theory at the University of Illinois. He is the author of James Joyce and the Problem of Justice: Negotiating Sexual and Colonial Difference (1992) and Dracula’s Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness and the Question of Blood (2002). He is also the editor of Quare Joyce (1998) and the co-editor of Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siecle (2002). His work in critical theory has appeared in Diacritics, Critical Inquiry, College Literature, and Gender and Psychoanalysis.

Alenka Zupani is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She is the author of Ethics of the Real. Kant, Lacan (2000), Das Reale einer Illusion (2001), and Esthétique du désir, éthique de la jouissance (2002).