Contributors

Efrat Biberman is an Associate Professor and former Vice Dean at Hamidrasha Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl College. Her research concerns the intricate relations between Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis and philosophy and theory of art. Besides over thirty articles and book chapters, her publications include Visual Texti(a)les: Narrative and Gaze in Painting (, in Hebrew), Art, Death and Lacanian Psychoanalysis (with Shirley Sharon Zisser, Routledge, ), That is to Say: On the Art of Deganit Berest (ed., , in Hebrew), and Weaving a Painting: Israeli Art and Lacan's Late Teaching (Magnes Press, forthcoming, in Hebrew).

Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan (D.Phil.Oxon) serves as Professor of English at the University of Haifa, Israel. She is the author of Graham Greene's Childless Fathers , Joseph Conrad and the Modern Temper (Oxford University Press, ), The Strange Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad (Oxford University Press, ), and Between Philosophy and Literature: Bakhtin and the Question of the Subject (Stanford University Press, ) as well as numerous articles on literary modernism, the relations of continental philosophy and literature, intertextuality, and various intersections of the human sciences. In addition to her academic interests, she is actively involved in the work of the peace movement and the social-democratic movement in Israel.

Jeanette Farrell is a psychiatrist in private practice in Seattle, Washington. She is a clinical instructor at the University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences where she teaches psychoanalytic psychotherapy and supervises psychiatry residents. She is also an associate member of the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.

Stephen Frosh is Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. He has a background