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Genevieve Morel is a practicing psychoanalyst in Paris and Lille. Her numerous books include Sexual Ambiguities, (Karnac, 2011), and the soon-to-be-translated La Loi de ma Mere: Essai sur le Sinthome Sexuel (the Law of the Mother: Essay on the Sexual Sinthome) (Broche, 2000), And recently with Darian Leader, Clinique de Suicide, 2012. She is the President of Savoir et Clinique (Knowledge and Clinic) an association for the permanent formation of the psychoanalyst and regularly publishes a journal by the same name. She…

Anke Hennig teaches at the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin and is a Research Fellow in the Collaborative Research Centre 626 ‘Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits’. Her recent publications have addressed cinematic fiction, the present-tense novel, and speculative poetics. She is the author of Sowjetische Kinodramaturgie (Soviet Cinematic Dramaturgy, 2010) and, in cooperation with Armen Avanessian, co-author of Präsens. Poetik eines Tempus (Present Tense. A Poetics, 2012) and Metanoia. Spekulative Ontologie der Sprache (Metanoia. Speculative Ontology of…

Ann-Louise S. Silver, MD is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University (B.A., M.D. and the State of Maryland-Johns Hopkins psychiatric residency program), and the adult program of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. She completed the family therapy training program of the Washington School of Psychiatry. She is a Clinical Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and teaches at the Military Residency Training Program at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute,…

Dr. Kravis is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Has lectured and taught widely; author of more than a dozen publications, mostly on topics in the history of psychoanalysis and psychiatry; recipient of two awards for teaching (Payne Whitney Clinic, 2001; Klar Award, Columbia Psychoanalytic Center, 2005), and one for writing (Beller Award, Columbia Psychoanalytic Center, 1992). Private practice in…

Samo Tomšič studied Philosophy in Ljubljana and received his doctorate at the Institute for Philosophy there with a dissertation entitled "Was ist Antiphilosophie?" ("What is anti-philosophy?"). In the past year he has worked for the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Between 2011 and 2013, he was a Humboldt Fellow at the Department for German Literature at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His current research is dedicated to the philosophical questions of formalisation, the history of rationalism…

Sandra Buechler, Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City. She also supervises at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. A member of the editorial board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, she is the author of Making a Difference in Patients' Lives: Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting (Analytic Press, 2008). She has written papers on the analyst's experiences of loneliness, loss, joy, and other aspects of the…