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Jens De Vleminck, PhD, is a philosopher, sexologist, and psychoanalyst. He is an associated senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Secretary of the Belgian School for Psychoanalysis. He is co-editor of Sexuality and Psychoanalysis: Philosophical Criticisms (Leuven University Press, ). Recent publications: “Oedipus and Cain: Brothers in Arms,” International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 19 (3) , 172-184; “Rethinking Freud's Death Instinct,” L'Evolution Psychiatrique, 81 (4) , 723-741; “Sadism and Masochism on the Procrustean Bed of Hysteria,” Psychoanalysis and History, 19 (3) , 379-406; “The Death Instinct, Psychoanalysis’ Enigmatic Signifier? Rereading Laplanche, Rereading Freud,” DIVISION/Review, 17 (Fall ), 47-49.
Simone Drichel is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English & Linguistics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. A cross-disciplinary researcher, her current work traverses the fields of continental philosophy and relational psychoanalysis to tackle questions of vulnerability and relationality, especially as they relate to narcissism as a pressing ethical problem. Her work has appeared in a broad range of journals (American Imago, Levinas Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, Philosophy & Social Criticism, Textual Practice, etc.), and she is the editor of a special issue on “Vulnerability” (SubStance, 42 (3) ) and of a forthcoming special issue on “Relationality” (Angelaki, 24 (3) ).
Claire Kahane is Professor Emerita of English at the University at Buffalo, a Research Associate in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, where she trained. A psychoanalytic and feminist critic, she has published numerous