SPEAKERS

Chicago
Institute for Psychoanalysis
FRENCH-AMERICAN CONVERSATIONS ON PSYCHOANALYSIS
Chicago, October 14-15, 2011
University of Chicago
SPEAKERS
JAMES W. ANDERSON, Ph.D., is a faculty member at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis
and Editor of the Annual of Psychoanalysis. Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University, he teaches courses such as personality
psychology and the psychology of film. In his research he is a specialist in the study of the
individual life. He has published psychobiographical papers on William and Henry James,
Woodrow Wilson, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Edith Wharton.
PAUL AUDI is a philosopher. After graduating from the Ecole normale supérieure and obtaining
the Agrégation de philosophie, he defended his PhD dissertation on Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Rousseau, éthique et passion, PUF, 1997) at the Sorbonne (Paris IV). He taught for several years
at the university (Paris XII) and then pursued his research in philosophy while working in the
publishing industry (Presses universitaires de France). He has written and published to this day
about twenty books dealing mostly with the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in the
Western World throughout Modern Times. This relationship cannot be taken into account without
addressing at the same time the nature of subjectivity (Où je suis. Topique du corps et de l’esprit,
Encre Marine, 2004) and the fundamental basis of ethics (Supériorité de l’éthique, Flammarion,
2007). This led Paul Audi to identify the basis of what he calls « théorie esth/éthique » (theory of
aesth/ethics). This theory aims to provide both an ethic and an aesthetic response to the question:
why create? This question was further investigated in L’ivresse de l’art. Nietzsche et l’esthétique
(Biblio essais, 2003), in Je me suis toujours été un autre. Le paradis de Romain Gary (Christian
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Bourgois, 2007), in Jubilations (Christian Bourgois, 2009), and especially in Créer. Introduction à
l’esth/éthique (Verdier, 2010). His latest published works are the following: Rousseau : une
philosophie de l’âme (Verdier, 2008) ; L’empire de la compassion (Les Belles Lettres, 2011) ; Le
théorème du Surmâle. Lacan selon Jarry (Verdier, 2011).
BERTRAM J. COHLER, Ph.D., is William Rainey Harper Professor of Social Sciences in the
College and the Departments of Comparative Human Development, Psychology and Psychiatry at
the University of Chicago, and a graduate psychoanalyst on the faculty of the Chicago Institute for
Psychoanalysis and on the Board of Directors of the Institute. Author of numerous articles on
developmental psychology and psychoanalysis, he is the co-author of The Essential Other (with
Robert Galatzer-Levy, M.D.).
« My current interests include sexuality and society, and the study of coping with adversity. In
addition, as a psychoanalyst, my interests include the use of clinical psychoanalytic concepts in the
study of lives over time. In each of these areas of my present work, I focus on the interplay of social
and personal factors. …Study of the manner in which we make meanings of misfortune has also
relied upon narratives including, in my present work, memoirs of men and women who were
internees in the extermination camps of the Third Reich and written at some point in the post-war
period. »
MARIO EDOUARDO COSTA PEREIRA, Psychoanalyst, Psychiatrist. Professor of Clinical
Psychopathology and director of the Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychopathology Laboratory
(L.P.P.C. - Laboratoire de Psychanalyse et Psychopathologie clinique), University of Provence,
France. Former director of the Laboratory of Fundamental Psychopathology at the Department of
Medical Psychology and Psychiatry at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil.
Some representative publications: « D’un pathos à l’autre : la psychopathologie clinique et les
discours de souffrance », Cliniques Méditerranéennes, Vol 82, 2010, pp.89-112; co-author (with
Jardim L.L and Palma C.M.C )“Fragments of the Other: a psychoanalytic approach to the ego in
schizophrenia”, International Forum of Psychoanalysis (in press); “Pathos, violence and power:
the ethical implications of Fundamental Psychopathology”. Revista Latinoamericana de
Psicopatologia Fundamental, XII (2), 2009, pp. 263-284; co-author (with Banzato C.E.M)“Eyes
and ears wide open: values in the clinical setting”. World Psychiatry, IV(2): 90-91, 2005 ; « La
question de l'hypnose d'effroi ». Revue Internationale de Psychopathologie, v. 1, n. 13, p. 51-72,
1994 ; Psicopatologia dos ataques de pânico. São Paulo: Escuta, 2003; Pânico e Desamparo. São
Paulo: Escuta, 1999.
PATRICIA COTTI, Ph.D. in psychopathology and psychoanalysis (University Paris Diderot),
Master’s degree in History, is a member of the faculty of the University of Paris - Diderot
(C.R.P.M.S.). Her research and writings in the field of history and epistemology of psychoanalysis
and psychiatry have been published in numerous journals in English and in French. She is a clinical
psychologist in the psychiatric hospital Maison Blanche (Paris).
MONIQUE DAVID-MENARD is a practising analyst in Paris, Associate Member at the Société
de Psychanalyse Freudienne. She has been a member of the Ecole Freudienne de Paris (1979-80)
and of the Centre de Formation et Recherches Psychanalytiques (1982-94). Doctor of clinical
psychopathology and psychoanalysis, director of research at the University Paris-Diderot and
director of the Centre d'études du vivant (2005 - 2011). She is also doctor of philosophy (University
Paris Sorbonne) and specializes in the relationships between psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the
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natural sciences. She gives also a seminar on "Sexuality and gender" since 2005. Her published
works include the following books: Hysteria between Freud and Lacan. Body and Language in
Psychoanalysis (Paris, 1983, Ithaca, Cornell University Press 1989), La Folie dans la raison pure.
Kant lecteur de Swedenborg (Paris, Vrin, 1990), Les Constructions de l'universel - Psychanalyse,
philosophie (Paris, PUF, 1997), Tout le plaisir est pour moi (Paris, Hachette Littératures, 2000),
Deleuze et la psychanalyse. L’Altercation (Paris, P.U.F. 2005) and recently: Eloge des hasards
dans la vie sexuelle (Paris, Hermann, 2011); She has edited Sexualité, genre, mélancolie.
S'entretenir avec Judith Butler (Paris, Campagne Première, 2009). Her works have been or are
currently being translated into English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Japanese and Turkish; she is
on the editorial committees of the journals Die Philosophin (Germany), Objetos Caidos (Chile),
and the Revue Internationale de Psychopathologie, and co-directed the collection “Débats
Philosophiques” (Marocco). Currently, founding member of the International Society of
Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (SIPP/ISPP) and member of the International Network of Women
Philosophers (UNESCO).
ARNOLD I. DAVIDSON is the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in the
Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, the Department of Comparative Literature,
the Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the Divinity School.
Executive Editor of Critical Inquiry, he is also a director of the France-Chicago Center. His major
fields of research and teaching are the history of contemporary European philosophy, the history of
moral and political philosophy, the history of the human sciences, and the history and philosophy
of religion. He teaches regularly in Europe, and his main publications are in French and Italian as
well as in English. He is the author of The Emergence of Sexuality. Historical Epistemology and
the Formation of Concepts and co-author of a book of conversations with Pierre Hadot, La
philosophie comme manière de vivre. He is also the series editor of the English language edition of
Michel Foucault's courses at the Collège de France and has co-edited, with Frédéric Gros, an
anthology of Foucault's texts for Gallimard.
FREDERIC GROS is a professor of ethical and political philosophy at the University Paris Est
Créteil and a member of the faculty at The Institut d'Etudes Politique teaching in the Master of
political theory program. He is a specialist in Michel Foucault's works and an editor of Michel
Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France (L'herméneutique du sujet, Le gouvernement de soi et
des autres, Le courage de la vérité), as well as the author of numerous published articles and books
on Foucault (Michel Foucault, Foucault et la folie, etc.). His works include a philosophical
approach to the idea of war (Etats de violence, Gallimard, 2006) and he is currently finishing a
book on the history of the concept of "security". He is also a former researcher in the field of the
history of psychiatry.
PATRICK GUYOMARD is a Professor in the department of Psychology (Université Paris
Diderot), a psychoanalyst and a founder of La Société de Psychanalyse Freudienne (Paris, France).
He is the author of: La jouissance du tragique - Antigone Lacan et le désir de l'analyste, Aubier,
1992; Le désir d'éthique, Aubier, 1998, Lacan et le contre transfert, PUF, 2011.
CHRISTOPHER LANE (Ph.D. University of London), Professor of Literature, Northwestern
University, teaches and writes about mostly Victorian and modern British fiction, with secondary
expertise in 19th-century psychology, psychiatry, and intellectual history. He is the author of five
books: The Ruling Passion (Duke, 1995), The Burdens of Intimacy (Chicago, 1999), Hatred and
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Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England (Columbia, 2004), and Shyness: How Normal
Behavior Became a Sickness (Yale trade, 2007), winner of the 2010 Prescrire Prize for Medical
Writing (France), now out in French, Spanish, Korean, and Japanese, with a Danish translation
forthcoming. His latest book, a study of Victorian agnosticism, is called The Age of Doubt: Tracing
the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty (Yale trade, March 2011). He writes a blog for Psychology
Today called "Side Effects." See also: Christopher Lane's Shyness Resources (Personal Webpage)
RAINIER LANSELLE, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Université Paris-Diderot, department
of East Asian Studies, and a member of the French National Center for Scientific Research,
Research Team UMR8155 CRCAO (Research Center on East Asian Civilizations). Specialist of
classical Chinese literature of the Yuan-Ming periods. Besides he is psychoanalyst, with mainly
Chinese analysands, in France as well as China, in their native tongue. Aside from his research
about classical literature, he studies problematics of how psychological and psychoanalytical
issues are discussed within Chinese scholarly circles in today’s China.
LAURIE LAUFER, Psychoanalyst, Associate Professor of psychology in the department of
Psychology (Université Paris Diderot- CRPMS), author of : L’Énigme du deuil, Paris, Presses
universitaires de France, 2006; Preface to : Freud Sigmund, Malaise dans la civilisation (1929),
Paris, Payot, 2010, pp.7-35; Preface to Freud Sigmund, Deuil et Mélancolie (1915), Paris, Payot,
2011, pp.7-37.
JONATHAN LEAR, Ph. D., is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee
on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy (University of Chicago) and a member of
the faculty of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He trained in Philosophy at Cambridge
University and The Rockefeller University where he received his Ph.D. in 1978. He works
primarily on philosophical conceptions of the human psyche from Socrates to the present. He also
trained as a psychoanalyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. His books
include: Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation (2006), Aristotle and Logical
Theory (1980), Aristotle: the desire to understand (1988); Love and its place in nature: a
philosophical interpretation of Freudian psychoanalysis (1990), Open minded: working out the
logic of the soul (1998), Happiness, death and the remainder of life (2000), Therapeutic action: an
earnest plea for irony (2003), and Freud (2005).
He is a recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award.
His latest book, A Case for Irony will be published in October by Harvard University Press.
NELL LOGAN, Ph.D. received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Washington University, St.
Louis, Missouri in 1973 and a certificate in psychoanalysis from the Chicago Center for
Psychoanalysis in 1992. For about 8 years, she taught and did clinical work and administration in a
child, adolescent, and family clinic at the University of Illinois, Health Sciences Center, Chicago,
Illinois. She subsequently became a professor at Argosy University, Chicago (formerly Illinois
School of Professional Psychology). She also had a private practice in clinical psychology for
about 30 years, working with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. Her primary
interests have been teaching and doing clinical work, and her writings have been in these areas.
After visiting China several times she became interested in the history and culture of China. In
2009 she became a member of the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA), a nonprofit
organization devoted to training mental health professionals in China in psychoanalytic
psychotherapy. She has been teaching, supervising, and conducting an analysis in this program.
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FRANÇOISE MELTZER, Ph. D., current Chair of Comparative Literature, is the Edward Carson
Waller Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, and Professor in the Divinity School
and the College at the University of Chicago.
Her specialties are nineteenth-century French and German literatures and critical theory.
Selected Publications: Hot Property: The Stakes and Claims of Literary Originality (University of
Chicago Press, 1994), Salome and the Dance of Writing: Portraits of Mimesis in Literature
(University of Chicago Press, 1987), Ed. The Trial(s) of Psychoanalysis (University of Chicago
Press, 1988), For Fear of the Fire: Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity (University of
Chicago Press, 2001).
She has recently edited Saints: Faith Without Borders with Jas' Elsner (Chicago, 2011); and has
just completed a new book, Double Vision: Baudelaire's Modernity (Chicago, 2011).
PAOLA MIELI is a psychoanalyst in New York City. She is the founder and president of
Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association. She is a member of Le Cercle Freudien (Paris), of
Insistance (Paris), and of The European Federation of Psychoanalysis (Strasbourg). A
correspondent editor of the Psychoanalytic Journal Che Vuoi (Paris) and a contributing editor of the
Journal Insistance (Paris), she teaches in the Department of Photography and Related Media of The
School of Visual Arts in New York City. The author of numerous articles on psychoanalysis and on
culture published in Europe and America, her books include: Sobre as manipulacaoes irreversivels
do corpo (Contra Capa Publisher, Rio de Janeiro 2002), and Being Human: The Technological
Extensions of the Body (Co-Editor, Marsilio Publishers, New York, 1999).
ALESSIA RICCIARDI, Ph. D., is an Associate Professor in the French and Italian Department
and the Comparative Literature Program, where she serves as DGS (Northwestern University). She
has a BA in philosophy from the University of Pisa, a DEA (master’s degree) from Paris VII in
psychoanalysis, and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Yale University. Her main areas of
interest are Italian and French contemporary literature, cinema, political thought, critical theory,
psychoanalysis and gender studies. Her first book, The Ends of Mourning, won the Modern
Language Association’s 2004 Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literature. She has just completed
a book manuscript, After La Dolce Vita: A Cultural Prehistory of Berlusconi’s Italy. Her essays
have appeared in PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, Modern Language Notes, and The Romanic
Review, among other publications. Currently, she is at work on two research projects: a book on
Antonioni, tentatively titled Becoming Woman: Antonioni’s Cinema Between Deleuze and Cindy
Sherman and a study of sublimation that focuses on Freud’s and Lacan’s different understandings
of the concept.
ELIZABETH ROTTENBERG is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University and
a candidate at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is the author of Inheriting the Future:
Legacies of Kant, Freud, and Flaubert (Stanford University Press, 2005). Her published work
includes translations of Jean-François Lyotard, Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime (Stanford,
1993); of Maurice Blanchot, Friendship (Stanford 1997), The Instant of My Death (Stanford, 2000);
and of Jacques Derrida, Demeure (Stanford, 2000). She is the editor and translator of Negotiations:
Interventions and Interviews (1971-2001) by Jacques Derrida (Stanford, 2001) as well as the
co-editor (with Peggy Kamuf) of the two volume edition of Jacques Derrida's Psyche that appeared
in English as Psyche I: Inventions of the Other (Stanford, 2007) and Psyche II: Inventions of the
Other (Stanford, 2008).
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FRANK SUMMERS, Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences,
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University.
He is a supervising and training analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and a faculty
member of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and the Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Institute.
Frank Summers is a member of the editorial board of several journals: Psychoanalytic Psychology,
The Annual of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues (associate editor, 2011--)
He is the author of: Self Creation: Psychoanalytic Therapy and The Art of Possibility (Hillsdale, NJ:
The Anlytic Press, 2005), Transcending the Self: An Object Relations Model of Psychoanalytic
Therapy (Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 1999), Object Relations Theories and Psychopathlogy:
A Comprehensive Text (Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 1994). Dr. Summers is in the private
practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy in Chicago, Illinois.
ALAIN VANIER is a psychoanalyst practicing in Paris, a member and former president of Espace
Analytique and a Supervisor at Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association. He is the author of
numerous articles on psychoanalysis and culture, most recently in English: “The object between
mother and child: From Winnicott to Lacan,” in Between Winnicott and Lacan: A Clinical
Engagement (Lewis A. Kirshner ed., New York – London, Routledge, 2011) and Lacan (trans. S.
Fairfield, 2000) published by Other Press (New York). He is a Professor of psychopathology and
the Director of graduate studies at the University of Paris Diderot – Paris 7, where he also heads the
Centre de Recherches Psychanalyse, Médecine et Société (C.R.P.M.S.).
CATHERINE VANIER, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst practicing in Paris. She is a member and past
president of Espace Analytique, and a Supervisor at Après-Coup Pschoanalytic Association. She is
a research associate at the Centre de Recherches Psychanalyse, Médecine et Société (C.R.P.M.S) at
the University of Paris Diderot-Paris 7. She has published numerous edited volumes and journals,
and, among her books: Lacanian Psychotherapy with Children: The Broken Piano (Other Press Ed)
(under the name of Catherine Mathelin), Le sourire de la Joconde, Clinique psychanalytique avec
les bébés prématurés, and Comment survivre en famille. She also works in neonatal intensive care.
FRANÇOIS VILLA is a Professor of Psychopathology (University of Paris Diderot), Financial
Vice-president of University Paris-Diderot, Director of the Master Degree of Psychology
(University of Paris Diderot). Member of the Centre de Recherches Psychanalyse, Médecine et
Société (CRPMS). Member of the INSERM International Review Board. He is editor of the serie
L’enfant, la psychiatrie et le psychanalyste. Monographies du Centre Alfred Binet, Paris, In Press.
Psychoanalyst, member of the Association Psychanalytique de France (APF) and of the
International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). Selected Publications: La Puissance du vieillir
(Paris, Le fil rouge, PUF, 2010), Le caractère dans la pensée freudienne (Paris, Hors collection,
PUF, 2009). Co-author with E. Weil, « Lettre à Nathalie… absente », in Mélanges pour Nathalie
Zaltzman (Paris, Campagne Première, to be published, 2011); « Pouvoirs de transformation de la
chimère », in Gagnebin M., Michel de M'Uzan et le saisissement créateur, Seyssel, Champ Vallon,
2011 ; « Human nature: a paradoxical object », in Kirshner L. A., Between Winnicott and Lacan. A
Clinical Engagement USA, Routledge, 2011.
JEAN-MICHEL VIVÈS, Psychoanalyst, Professor of clinical psychology (University of Nice France). His works and interests involve the relationships between drives and voice. He has been
recently engaged in research on catharsis in the arts and psychoanalysis. Selected Publications: «
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Catharsis : Psychoanalysis and the Theatre », The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, August
2011, volume 92, issue 4, 2011, « Au-delà du symptôme : le sujet du bégaiement », Les
bégaiements de l’adulte, B. Pierart, (sous la direction de), Bruxelles, Mardaga, 2011 ; « Les enjeux
de la pratique théâtrale auprès d’adolescents « désarrimés de la loi » », L’art et le soin, P. Attigui
(Sous la direction de), Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2011 p. 119-128.
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