Notes on Contributors

C. Fred Alford is a Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and author of The Self in Social Theory and Group Psychology and Political Theory. His latest book, What Evil Means to Us, will be published by Yale University Press this fall. Currently Professor Alford is engaged in a project exploring the Korean and Chinese concept of evil.

Danielle Bergeron works as psychoanalyst and psychiatrist and is Clinical Professor and Supervisor in the Department of Psychiatry at Laval University. She is Director of the Psychoanalytic Treatment Center for Psychotics in Quebec City. A member of GIFRIC (Interdisciplinary Freudian Group for Research and Clinical Intervention), she is co-director of the psychoanalytic training and clinical seminars for French and English-speaking groups. She is coauthor of Traiter la psychose and has also published articles on femininity, psychoanalytic concepts, and the direction of psychoanalytic treatment, always trying to confront theoretical issues through clinical practice.

Cynthia Burack is Assistant Professor of Political Science and the Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research at the University of Florida. She is the author of The Problem of the Passions: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Social Theory, as well as articles in feminism and psychoanalytic theory. She is currently at work on a second book entitled Crossing Boundaries: Power, Conflict, and Community in Black Feminist Thought.

Lucie Cantin, a psychologist and psychoanalyst, is Assistant Director of the Psychoanalytic Treatment Center for Adult Psychotics; Vice President of GIFRIC; Clinical Professor in the School of Psychology, Laval University; Editor of Savoir: A Journal of Psychoanalysis and Cultural Analysis; and a member of the European School of Psychoanalysis.

Sinkwan Cheng is a Research Associate in English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Irvine. She was the winner of an Excellence in Teaching Award at