Contributors

Sergio Benvenuto is a psychoanalyst and philosopher. He is a researcher at the National Council for Scientific Research (CNR) in Rome, Italy, and the president of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Psychoanalysis (ISAP) in Italy. He was the founder and editor of European Journal of Psychoanalysis, and he is a member of the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Discourse. He has worked on Freud and Lacan, Wittgenstein and ethics, Plato's philosophy, theory of fashion, theory of populism, and monotheisms (with J.-L. Nancy). His publications in English include: with A. Molino, In Freud's Tracks (Aronson, ); What Are Perversions? (Karnac, ); Conversations with Lacan (Routledge, ); “Listening to Perversions,” in Diego Busiol, ed., Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Practice. Insights from Fourteen Psychoanalysts (Routledge, ); papers in the book Coronavirus, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy. Conversations on Pandemics, Politics and Society, edited by Fernando Castrillón and Thomas Marchevsky (Routledge, ); and Lacan, Kris and the Psychoanalytic Legacy: The Brain Eater (Routledge, ).

Werner Bohleber, PhD, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is a training analyst and former president of the German Psychoanalytical Association. From 1997 to 2017, he was the main editor of the journal PSYCHE. His research subjects and main publication themes are: psychoanalytic theory and conceptual research; late adolescence and young adulthood; transgenerational consequences of the Nazi period and the war; nationalism, fundamentalism, anti-Semitism; and trauma research. In 2007, he was awarded the Mary S. Sigourney Award for his diverse contributions, especially those relating to the traumatic aftermath of the Holocaust, National Socialism, and Second World War. His last book in English is Destructiveness, Intersubjectivity and Trauma: The Identity Crisis of Modern Psychoanalysis (Routledge, ).