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 and in which he has recently written on Wittgenstein and Freud. He teaches psychoanalytic clinical practice in several institutes in Naples, Kiev, Moscow, and Mexico City and is the author of many books and papers in different languages, including: Mechta Lacana [Dream Lacan] in Russian (Aleteyya, ); “Perversion and Charity: An Ethical Approach,” in D. Nobus & L. Downing (eds.), Perversion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives / Perspectives on Psychoanalysis (Karnac, ); with A. Molino, In Freud's Tracks (Jason Aronson, ); Accidia: La passione dell'indifferenza [Sloth: The Passion of Indifference] (il Mulino, ); Perversionen: Sexualität, Ethik und Psychoanalyse [Perversions: Sexuality, Ethics and Psychoanalysis] (Turia & Kant, ); La gelosia [Jealousy] (il Mulino, ); and with Antonio Lucci, Lacan, oggi [Lacan, Today] (Mimesis, ). He is a member of Unbehagen, A Free Association for Psychoanalysis.

Stephen Frosh is Pro-Vice-Master and Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has a background in academic and clinical psychology and was Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic, London, throughout the 1990s. He is the author of many books and papers on psychosocial studies and on psychoanalysis, including Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic (Palgrave, ), Hate and the Jewish Science: Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis (Palgrave, ), For and Against Psychoanalysis (Routledge, ), After Words (Palgrave, ), and The Politics of Psychoanalysis (Palgrave, ). His most recent books are