UIT Authors
Jean Laplanche (1924 - 2012)
Jean Laplanche was described by Radical Philosophy as “the most original and philosophically informed psychoanalytic theorist of his day.” Studying philosophy under Hyppolite, Bachelard, and Merleau-Ponty, he became an active member of the French Resistance under the Vichy regime. Under the influence (and treatment) of Jacques Lacan, Laplanche came to earn a doctorate in medicine and was certified as a psychoanalyst. He eventually broke ties with Lacan and began regularly publishing influential contributions to psychoanalytic theory, his first volume appearing in 1961. In 1967 he published, with his colleague J.-B. Pontalis, the celebrated encyclopaedia The Language of Psychoanalysis. Member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, co-founder of the Association Psychanalytique de France, emeritus professor and founder of the Center for Psychoanalytic Research at the Université de Paris VII, and assistant professor at the Sorbonne, he also oversaw, as scientific director, the translation of Freud’s complete oeuvre into French for the Presses Universitaires de France.
Jean-Bertrand Pontalis (1924 - 2013)
Jean-Bertrand Pontalis studied philosophy, served on the editorial board of Sartre's journal Les Temps Modernes and became a psychoanalyst. His analyst was Jacques Lacan, from whose school he separated early in the 60s. With Jean Laplanche, he wrote the authoritative Vocabulaire de la psychanalyse, edited the Nouvelle revue de psychanalyse (1970-1994) and, at Gallimard, was responsible for publishing much of the best French psychoanalytic work.
Dominique Scarfone, MD
Dominique Scarfone is full professor at the Department of Psychology of the Université de Montréal where he teaches psychoanalytic theory, does clinical supervision, and conducts research. A psychoanalyst in private practice, he is a member of the Société and of the Institut psychanalytique de Montréal (Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and Institute). He was associate editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and is on the editorial board of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly. He has published four books: Jean Laplanche (Eng. transl. Laplanche: An Introduction), Oublier Freud? Mémoire pour la psychanalyse, Les Pulsions, and Quartiers aux rues sans nom. He co-edited Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning, with Howard Levine and Gail Reed. He lives in Montreal.
Hélène Tessier
Hélène Tessier is a psychoanalyst. She is a member of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and of the International Psychoanalytical Association. She is the vice-president of the Scientific Council of Fondation Jean Laplanche/Nouveaux fondements pour la psychanalyse and a full professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences and Philosophy of Saint-Paul University (Ottawa).
Among her numerous publications is La psychanalyse américaine, published by PUF in the collection Que sais-je? She has published many papers in French and in English on Laplanche and on epistemological issues in psychoanalysis. Since 2010 she has been one of the principal organizers of the biennial Journées Internationales Jean Laplanche and is currently involved in the preparation of a Vocabulaire of Laplanche’s metapsychology modeled on The Language of Psychoanalysis by Laplanche and Pontalis.
Patrick Autréaux
Patrick Autréaux was born in Melun, south of Paris. After studying medicine and anthropology, he became an emergency-room psychiatrist for nearly fifteen years. He is the author of a trilogy on illness—Dans la vallée des larmes (Gallimard), Soigner (Gallimard), and Se survivre (Verdier). He has also published a poem in prose Le dedans des choses (Gallimard) a novel about illegal immigration in France, Les irréguliers (Gallimard), and a play, le grand vivant (Verdier) performed at the Avignon Festival. He has been a writer-in-residence at Boston University and a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His latest work, Quand la parole attend la nuit, is forthcoming with the publisher Verdier.
Jeffrey Mehlman
Jeffrey Mehlman, who has taught at Cornell, Johns Hopkins and Harvard Universities, is Professor of French Literature and University Professor at Boston University. He is the author (most recently) of Adventures in the French Trade, Emigré New York, Walter Benjamin for Children and Genealogies of the Text.
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AVGI SAKETOPOULOU, co-author of GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY
An immigrant from Cyprus and from Greece, Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou is a psychoanalyst now living and practicing in New York. She is on faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she also trained, and teaches in other psychoanalytic institutes, such as the William Alanson White Institute. Her published work has received the Ralph Roughton Award, the annual JAPA Essay Prize, the Symonds Prize and the Ruth Stein Prize. Her interview on psychoanalysis is in the permanent collection of the Freud Museum in Vienna and in 2022, she received Div39’s Scholarship and Research Award. In 2021 she was co-recipient, with Dr. Ann Pellegrini, of the International Psychoanalytical Association’s first Tiresias Essay Prize. Her monograph, Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia is published by the Sexual Cultures Series, NYU Press.
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ANN PELLEGRINI, co-author of GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY
Ann Pellegrini is Professor of Performance Studies & Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. They are the author/coauthor of several books: Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race; Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (coauthored with Janet R. Jakobsen); and “You Can Tell Just By Looking” and 20 Other Myths About LGBT Life and People (coauthored with Michael Bronski and Michael Amico). “You Can Tell Just By Looking” was nominated for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Non-fiction. Pellegrini has also coedited two anthologies: Queer Theory and the Jewish Question (with Daniel Boyarin and Daniel Itzkovitz) and Secularisms (with Janet R. Jakobsen). She was the co-recipient, with Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou, of the International Psychoanalytical Association’s first Tiresias Essay Prize, in 2021.