Notes on Contributors

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.

Richard Boothby is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola College in Baltimore. He is author of Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud and numerous articles on related topics. He is currently at work on a second book entitled Between the Image and the Word: Freud as Philosopher.

Néstor Braunstein is an Argentine analyst practicing in Mexico City and APCS International Correspondent for Mexico. He is the author of La jouissance: un concept lacanien and numerous articles on psychoanalysis.

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.

Cynthia L. Fortner is a doctoral candidate in English at Purdue University. She brings to Purdue her teaching experience in composition, literature, and film from universities in Oklahoma and Texas. Besides her work in innovative methods of pedagogy, she writes in areas of critical theory, film, and contemporary literature. Her focus in psychoanalytic studies involves research into the dynamics of transference and countertransference, as well as into areas of self development in exile. She explores a combination of her research interests in her forthcoming essay, “Not Just Black and White: Jean Cocteau's La Belle et La Bete as Transactive Feminist Text.”

Stephen Friedlander is the author of Discovering Spiritual Values in Community (a multi-media program) and of numerous articles and reviews on psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, as well as the editor of Confronting the Challenges to Psychoanalysis. He is a faculty member and director of studies at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education and Training (New York); a faculty member of the Lacanian Sc