Notes on Contributors

Marshall W. Alcorn, Jr. is Associate Professor of Engllish at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Author of Narcissism and the Literary Libido and coeditor of Lacanian Theory of Discourse, he has published on theory, rhetoric, and literature in journals such as PMLA, College English, Conradiana, and Rhetoric Review.

Willy Apollon holds a doctorate in philosophy from the Sorbonne and is consulting analyst at a psychoanalytic treatment center for young psychotics in Québec City. Of Haitian origin, he has been involved in the struggle to reestablish democracy in Haiti.

Jeffrey Berman is Professor of English at the University at Albany. He is the author of Joseph Conrad: Writing as Rescue, The Talking Cure, Narcissism and the Novel, and Diaries to an English Professor.

Mark Bracher is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Literature and Psychoanalysis at Kent State University. He is a graduate of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Institute, author of Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change: A Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism, and coeditor of Lacanian Theory of Discourse, and Lacan and the Subject of Language.

Néstor Braunstein is a psychoanalyst and a professor at the Universidad Nacional de Mexico, where he teaches epistemology of psychoanalysis and conducts a seminar on Freud and Lacan. He is also Professor and Director of the Centro de Investigaciones Psicoanaliticas and author of many books, including Goce, translated into French as La jouissance: un concept lacanien.

David S. Caudill, Associate Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University, is co-editor of Radical Philosophy of Law and author of Lacan and the Subject of Law: Toward a Psychoanalytic Critical Legal Theory.

Tim Dean teaches in the English Department at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the author of Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious and Beyond the Couch: Sexuality, Psychoanalysis, and Cultural Politics.

Patricia Elliot teaches Sociology and Women's Studies at Wilfrid