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Psychoanalyst and philosopher. He is a researcher (now retired) at the Italian National Council for Scientific Research (CNR) in Rome, Italy. He is the president of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Psychoanalysis (Elvio Fachinelli Institute) in Italy. He was the founder and the editor of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis, and he is a member of the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Discourse and American Imago. He has worked on Freud and Lacan, Wittgenstein and ethics, Plato’s philosophy, Theory of Fashion, Theory of populism, Monotheisms (with J.-L. Nancy). His papers and books are published in many languages, even in Russian and Ukrainian. His publications in English include: with A. Molino, In Freud’s Tracks (Aronson, 2008); What Are Perversions? (Karnac, 2016); Conversations with Lacan (Routledge, 2020); “Listening to Perversions” in Diego Busiol, ed., Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Practice. Insights from Fourteen Psychoanalysts (Routledge, 2021); Papers in the book Coronavirus, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy: Conversations on Pandemics, Politics and Society, edited by Fernando Castrillón & Thomas Marchevsky (Routledge, 2021); Lacan, Kris and the Psychoanalytic Legacy: The Brain Eater (Routledge, 2023).