You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
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 ; with A. Molino, In Freud's Tracks ; Accidia: La passione dell'indifferenza [Sloth: The Passion of Indifference] ; and La gelosia [Jealousy] . His book What Are Perversions? Sexuality, Ethics, Psychoanalysis has now appeared in English.
Harold P. Blum is Executive Director, Emeritus, of the Sigmund Freud Archives. He is the author of Female Psychology: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Views , Defense and Resistance: Historical Perspectives and Current Concepts , and Reconstruction in Psychoanalysis: Childhood Revisited and Recreated , as well as more than one hundred fifty psychoanalytic papers. Until 2013 he was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine. He has been Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Institute of Psychoanalytic Education at New York University School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vice President of the International Psychoanalytical Association, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He was the recipient of the inaugural Sigourney Award and of the Mahler, Hartmann, and Lorand Prizes. He was Executive Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives from 1987 to 2014.