Notes on Contributors
Ricardo Ainslie is Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at The University of Texas, Austin. His books include No Dancin' In Anson: An American Story of Race and SocialChange (1995) and The Psychology of Twinship (1985). His credits also include the documentary film, Crossover: A Story of Desegregation (1999), and (as researcher and originator) a photographic exhibit entitled "Jasper, Texas: The Healing of a Community."
John Bird is Reader in Psycho-Social Studies in the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol. As well as teaching undergraduate courses in race and ethnicity, the sociology of culture, and the sociology of the body, he has a range of research interests, including ethnic and other forms of hatred, psycho-social approaches to virtual reality, and processes of exclusion in educational setting. He is associate editor of the on-line Journal of Psycho-Social Studies .
Mark B. Borg, Jr. is a practicing psychoanalyst and community/organizational consultant working in New York City. He is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute's psychoanalytic certification program and continues his candidacy in their organizational dynamics program. He is co-founder and executive director of the Community Consulting Group. His primary area of interest and research is the exploration of psychoanalytic/community psychology intersections.
Kalina Brabeck is a third-year doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology Program at the University of Texas at Austin.
Doris Brothers, Ph.D. is a co-founder of and training and supervising analyst at The Training and Research Institute for Self Psychology (TRISP) in New York City, and she serves on the advisory board of The Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology (IASP) in Toronto. She is the author of Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self Experience, and co-author with Richard Ulman of The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma. She has written seven chapters in The Progress in Self Psychology series, two co-authored with Ellen Lewinberg. She has a private practice in New York City.
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl is the author of many books, including Anna Freud, The Anatomy of Prejudices, and Cherishment. She is on the faculty of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and in private practice in Manhattan.
Dr. Chamorro is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Chicago and a Fellow at The Institute for Psychoanalysis of Chicago. She is also a staff psychologist at the Outpatient Treatment Center of Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Medical School. Before moving to Chicago, Dr. Chamorro was Director of the Latino Mental Health Service at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She received the Horace W. Goldsmith award for her course curriculum on "Latino Mental Health." Dr. Chamorro has researched and published in the areas of cultural competence training, mentorship, cross-cultural psychodynamic treatment, and acculturation and eating disorders.
Drucilla Cornell is Professor of Political Science, Women's Studies, and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. She is the author of numerous acclaimed works of political philosophy, feminist theory, [End Page 184] continental thought, and psychoanalytic criticism, including Beyond Accommodation: Ethical Feminism, Deconstruction, and the Law (1991); The Philosophy of the Limit (1992); Transformations: Recollective Imagination and Sexual Difference (1993); The Imaginary Domain: Abortion, Pornography, and Sexual Harassment (1995); At the Heart of Freedom: Feminism, Sex, and Equality (1998); Just Cause: Freedom, Identity, and Rights (2000); and, most recently, Between Women and Generations: Legacies of Dignity (2002).
Walter A. Davis (Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State University) is currently writing a book on the emotions that synthesizes psychoanalysis and existentialism in a tragic theory of the psyche. His most recent book—Deracination: Historicity, Hiroshima, and the Tragic Imperative—constructed the method on which the present essay is based. His other works include Inwardness and Existence: Subjectivity In/And Hegel, Heidegger, Marx and Freud and Get the Guests: Psychoanalysis, Modern American Drama, and the Audience. Davis is also a playwright. His latest work in that venue is An Evening With JonBenet Ramsey.
R. Danielle Egan is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. Lawrence University. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled The Phallus Palace: Sexy Spaces, Desiring Subjects and the Fantasy of Objects, which is an ethnographic exploration of the interactions between exotic dancers and their regular customers. She has also published on the discourses of xenophobia and hyper-masculinity at work in the media and the United States government since 9/11 in Collateral Language: A User's Guide to America's New War, edited by John Collins and Ross Glover (NYU Press) and the British Journal Situation Analysis.
Jennifer Friedlander is currently faculty in residence in media studies at the University of New Hampshire. She is author of Moving Pictures: Where the Police, the Press, and the Art Image Meet (Sheffield Hallam University Press, 1998) and articles dealing with psychoanalysis and visual images.
Adrian Johnston is presently an interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. His published work focuses on Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis, the history of philosophy, and contemporary theory. In addition, he has recently completed two book manuscripts, one on temporality and drive, and the other on conceptions of ethical autonomy in psychoanalysis and philosophy.
Jason B. Jones received the Ph.D. in English, with a concentration in psychoanalytic studies, from Emory in 2002, and is presently a Marion L. Brittain Teaching Fellow in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His current research project interprets contingency, fantasy, and historical narrative in Victorian fiction, and he has published essays on such figures as Wilhelm Reich and Arnold Bennett.
Janet Lucas has recently completed her dissertation dealing with psychosis in general, and Schreber's Memoirs in particular. Her work has been published in international journals (with a Lacanian orientation), and she has presented at several international conferences. She is currently teaching in the English Department at the University of Toronto.
Shannon May is a doctoral student in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She serves as Co-Chair for the Anthropology Graduate Organization for Research and Action and is a member of the Kroeber Anthropological Society. Since living in Beijing as a Harvard-Yenching Fellow, she has written numerous journalistic articles on media, art and technology in China.
Julie Oxenberg, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist who also holds a masters degree in international diplomacy. She is currently the director of the Boston International Center, an organization that provides cultural and psychological services to the international community in Boston.
Michael G. Plastow is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Melbourne. He underwent his formation is psychoanalysis in The Freudian School of Melbourne, School of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, in which he is currently an Analyst Member. He is also a Consultant [End Page 185] Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Alfred Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. In this context he has an ongoing interest in elaborating the relation between psychoanalysis and public institutions.
Linda H. Robinson is a 4th Year Candidate, Psychoanalytic Training Program at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Society of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, and is a Social Worker in the Outpatient Clinic of the Psychiatry Department, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York.
Richard Ruth is on the steering committee of the Child and Adolescent psychotherapy Program of the Washington School of Psychiatry and in private practice in Wheaton, Maryland.
Andrew Samuels is Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex, Visiting Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies, London University, and a Training Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology, London. Board Member, International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and former Scientific Associate, American Academy of Psychoanalysis. He is in private practice and also works internationally as a political consultant. His many books have been translated into 19 languages and include The Plural Psyche: Personality, Morality and the Father (1989); The Political Psyche (1993); and the award-winning Politics on the Couch: Citizenshipand the Internal Life.
Robert Samuels is a Lecturer in the Writing Programs at the UCLA. He is the author of Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (Routledge Press, 1993), Hitchcock's Bi-Textuality (SUNY Press, 1998), and Writing Prejudices (SUNY Press, 2000). He is currently completing a book entitled Teaching the e-Generation: The Effect of Computers and Popular Culture on College Writers.
Ron Wright is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Mount Vernon Nazarene University in Mount Vernon, OH. His research interests include the moral and philosophical foundations of contemporary psychoanalytic theory, social constructionism, and philosophical hermeneutics.
Susan van Zyl lectures in the departments of Psychology and
Applied English Languages Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand
in Johannesburg. She has a special interest in Freudian psychoanalysis,
and in the application of Freudian concepts to the understanding of
aesthetic, social, and political questions. She is currently working
on a project concerned with the history of theological, scientific,
and popular conceptions of the instincts and the ways in which these
conceptualizations relate to political theory and practice.
