Elissa Marder is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Emory University where she is also affiliated with the Departments of Philosophy and Women’s Studies. She is a founding member of the Emory Psychoanalytic Studies Program and served as its Director from 2001-2006. She has been named an International Fellow at the London Graduate School and Professor of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fe, Switzerland.
Her publications include: Dead Time: Temporal Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (Baudelaire and Flaubert) (Stanford University Press, 2001); The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Psychoanalysis, Photography, and Deconstruction (Fordham University Press, 2012); Time for Baudelaire (Poetry, Theory, History) . Eds. E.S. Burt, Elissa Marder, Kevin Newmark. Yale French Studies vol. 125 (forthcoming: Spring, 2014). 
She has also published essays on diverse topics in literature, psychoanalysis, literary theory, feminism, film, photography and philosophy.

Herman Westerink is associate professor for philosophy of religion and intercultural philosophy and senior researcher at the Titus Brandsma Institute at the Radboud University Nijmegen, and extraordinary professor for psychoanalysis and mysticism at the KU Leuven. He is the vice-chair of the Scientific Board of the Sigmund Freud Foundation in Vienna. He has written many books and articles on Freudian psychoanalysis, sexuality and religion. Most recently he published (with Philippe Van Haute) commentaries on and text editions of the first edition of Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality and a monograph on Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality. He is editor of the book series “Sigmund Freuds Werke: Wiener Interdisziplinäre Kommentare”.

Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in New York; founding member, Unbehagen; faculty, Eugene Lang College at The New School; Supervisor, City University of New York doctoral program in clinical psychology. She is the author of The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis: Unconscious Desire and its Sublimation (Karnac, 2011) and, with Simon Critchley, Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine (Pantheon, 2013)

Jelica Šumič Riha  is a Slovenian philosopher, political theorist, and translator, associated with the Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis.

Laurie Laufer est psychanalyste, professeure de psychopathologie à l’Université Paris Diderot, directrice du laboratoire CRPMS (Centre de recherche psychanalyse, médecine et société). Elle est l’auteur de L’Énigme du deuil, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2006, des préfaces au roman de Pierre Louÿs, Trois filles de leur mère (1926), Paris, Payot, 2013, pp.7-38 aux ouvrages de Sigmund Freud, Malaise dans la civilisation (1929), Paris, Payot, 2010, pp. 7-35 et Deuil et Mélancolie (1915), Paris, Payot, 2011, pp. 7-37. Elle a publié de nombreux articles sur l’image et la psychanalyse et sur les questions de genre, de biopolitique et de psychanalyse.

Léa Silveira – Brasil – leasilveiralea@gmail.com – Professeure de philosophie à l’Université Fédéral de Lavras (UFLA, Minas Gerais, Brésil), en travaillant principalement au programme de licence en philosophie et au programme d’études supérieures en philosophie. Dans les deux cas, elle enseigne des cours sur “philosophie et psychanalyse”. Sa thèse de doctorat s’intitule “Détermination versus subjectivité: Appropriation et dépassement du structuralisme dans la psychanalyse lacanienne” et a été développée à “l’Université Fédérale de São Carlos” (UFSCar, São Paulo, Brésil). Elle est membre fondatrice du Groupe de travail sur philosophie et psychanalyse de l’Association Nationale des Études Supérieures en Philosophie (Anpof). Des articles en portugais, anglais, français et espagnol sont disponibles à l’adresse suivante: https://ufla.academia.edu/L%C3%A9aSilveira

Marcus Coelen est psychanalyste à New York et Berlin. Il est également enseignant de littérature et de théorie littéraire, actuellement au Psychoanalytic Studies Program de la Columbia University à New York. Il a traduit et édité plusieurs textes et volumes de Maurice Blanchot ainsi que publié des travaux sur Marcel Proust, Charles Baudelaire et d’autres figures littéraires. Parmi ses autres publications : Avec Mark Hewson, Georges Bataille – Key Concepts, London, Routledge, 2016 ; à paraitre [en 2020], avec Jamieson Webster, The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan.

Nelson da Silva Junior is a psychoanalyst, PhD in Fundamental Psychopathology from the University of Paris VII, Full Professor at the Department of Social and Work Psychology of the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo. Member of the Department of Psychoanalysis of the Instituto Sedes Sapientiae and the University Association for Research in Fundamental Psychopathology. Coordinator of Latesfip, together with Christian Dunker and Vladimir Safatle. Author, among others, of the books Le fictionnel en psychanalyse. Une étude à partir de l’œuvre de Fernando Pessoa, Presses Universitaires du Septemprion (2000), Linguagens e pensamento. A lógica na razão e desrazão, Casa do Psicólogo (2007), A Psicologia Social e a Questão do Hífen. Silva Junior & Zangari, (orgs.) Blucher, (2017) Patologias do Social, Dunker, Silva Junior e Safatle (orgs.), Autêntica (2018) e Fernando Pesssoa e Freud: diálogos inquietantes, Blucher (2019).

Patricia Gherovici is a psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. She is co-founder and director of the Philadelphia Lacan Group and Associate Faculty, Psychoanalytic Studies Minor, University of Pennsylvania (PSYS), Honorary Member at IPTAR the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York City, and Member at Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association New York. ​Her books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Other Press: 2003) winner of the Gradiva Award and the Boyer Prize, and Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism (Routledge: 2010). She has published two edited collections (both with Manya Steinkoler) Lacan On Madness: Madness, Yes You Can’t ( Routledge: 2015) and Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy (Cambridge University Press: 2016). Her new book Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference is forthcoming by Routledge in June 2017.

Paulo Beer – Brasil – beerpaulo@gmail.com – Psychanalyste et docteur en Psychologie Social par l’Institut de Psychologie de l’Université de São Paulo, avec un stage de recherche au Birkbeck College de l’Université de Londres. Membre du Laboratoire de Théorie Sociale, Philosophie et Psychanalyse (LATESFIP-USP). Travaille sur les sujets de la psychanalyse, épistémologie et politique. Auteur de “Psicanálise e Ciência: um debate necessário” (Ed. Blucher, 2017) et editeur de “Lacuna: uma revista de psicanálise”.

Tania Espinoza – PhD, MPhil University of Cambridge (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages), BA (hons) Macalester College. Her thesis The Ethics of Negative Space examines the relationship between theory and practice through the model of the multistable figure in Kant, Lacan and Virginia Woolf. She teaches comparative literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis and is currently a Visiting Lecturer at ECLA of Bard in Berlin.

Vladimir Safatle – Professor at the University of São Paulo, invited professor at the Universities of Paris VII, Paris VIII, Toulouse, and Louvain, ancien lecturer at the Collège International de Philosophie – Paris, coordinator of the brazilian translations of the complete works of Adorno.
Publications: the Passion of the negative: Lacan and philosophy (Georg Olms, 2010), Grand Hotel Abismo: por uma da Reconstrução teoria do reconhecimento (Martins Fontes, 2012), A esquerda that seu nome não teme dizer (Três estrelas, 2012) , Fetichismo: colonize o Outro (Civilização brasileira, 2010) cinismo e da falência crítica (Boitempo 2008), Lacan: uma Introdução (Publifolha, 2007)