Ellie Ragland - Lacan

Bruce A. Arrigo is Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, with Adjunct Professor appointments in the Public Policy Program and the Psychology Department, respectively. Formerly the Director of the Institute of Psychology, Law, and Public Policy at the California School of Professional Psychology-Fresno, Dr. Arrigo began his professional career as a community organizer and social activist for the homeless, the mentally ill, the working poor, the frail elderly, the decarcerated, and the chemically addicted. Dr. Arrigo received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, and he holds a masters degree in psychology and sociology. He is the author of more than 100 monographs, journal articles, academic book chapters, and scholarly essays exploring theoretical and applied topics in critical criminology, criminal justice and mental health, and socio-legal studies. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of eight books, including Madness, Language, and the Law (1993), The Contours of Psychiatric Justice (1996), Social Justice/Criminal Justice (1998), The Dictionary of Critical Social Sciences (with T. R. Young, 1999), Introduction to Forensic Psychology (2000), Law, Psychology, and Justice (with Christopher R. Williams, 2001), The Power Serial Rapist (with Dawn J. Graney, 2001), and Punishing the Mentally Ill: A Clinical Analysis of Law and Psychiatry (2002). Dr. Arrigo is the past Editor of Humanity and Society and founding and Acting Editor of the peer-reviewed quarterly, Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice. He was recently named the Critical Criminologist of the year (2000), sponsored by the Critical Criminology Division of the American Society of Criminology.

Philip Dravers is currently completing his doctoral thesis Fiction and the Real in the Theory of Jacques Lacan for the University of Oxford and teaches in the MA program in psychoanalysis at Middlesex University. He has translated many psychoanalytic articles from the French, including Lacans paper British Psychiatry and the War and is also a member of the editorial committee of the journal in which it appeared, Psychoanalytical Notebooks of the London Circle. He has previously published articles on Lacan, Joyce, and Bentham in both English and French and is currently researching the implications of the final period of Lacans teaching for issues of our contemporary scene, its subjectivity, and its clinic.

Jean-Paul Gilson is the author of La Topologie de Lacan: Une articulation de la cure psychanalytique (1994). He is currently Professor of Psychology at McGill University in Qubec. Previously he attended Lacans seminars and is an analyst in private practice. He is also the founder of the Ecole du Quotidien, a school for psychotic children in Brussels, Belgium.

Jeanne Lafont, after an educational formation in Latin and Greek (B.A./licence and M.A./matrise), turned toward psychology (B.A. and M.A.). After receiving her diplomas in both fields, she obtained a doctorate (DEA) in the Freudian Field at the University, Saint-Denis, ex-Vincennes in 1981. She was an associate member of the School of the Freudian Cause from 19811992, and today belongs to Dimensions of Psychoanalysis, to the Association for a training in psychoanalysis, to EFEPS, to a Freudian ethics in social practice, GERP A, and to a group of study and psychoanalytic research on autism, AIPEC. Her published books include Topologie ordinaire de Jacques Lacan, in the editions of ERES, in the collection Point Hors Ligne (1985), Lacanian topologie et clinique analytique (1990), and Les pratiques sociales, en dette de la psychanalyse (1994), as well as Les dessins des enfants qui commencent parler, reflexion sur lautisme et l criture, at EFEdition, Paris. She has also published numerous articles in French psychoanalytic journals, such as Littoral, Grapp, Transition, Analytica, and Revue de psychanalyse.

David Metzger is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Coordinator of Jewish Studies at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. A former student of Ellie Raglands, he is the author of The Lost Cause of Rhetoric: The Relation of Rhetoric and Geometry in Aristotle and Lacan (1995), guest editor of Lacan and the Question of Writing (a special issue of the journal Pre/Text [1994]), and coeditor of Proving Lacan (forthcoming). His other publications include forty articles and book chapters, two coedited volumes (Medievalism and Medieval Studies and Medievalism as an Integrated Study [Years Work in Medievalism X] [1999]), and an edited collection, Medievalism and Cultural Studies (2000).

Jacques-Alain Miller is Professor and Director of the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII, Saint Denis, and the editor of Lacans Seminars. He has given a Course every year since 1981 to an international audience. He is the Director of the European School of Psychoanalysis and the World Association of Psychoanalysis, as well as an analyst in private practice. He has written numerous publications in various languages.

Dragan Milovanovic is Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Criminal Justice, State University of New York at Albany. He has written numerous articles on postmodern criminology and law. He is the author or coauthor of 15 books. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. The focus of his research has been in psychoanalytic semiotics, chaos theory, catastrophe theory, edgework, and constitutive criminology/law. His forthcoming books are Criminal Criminology at the Edge, Sociology of Law (3rd edition) and a coauthored publication, The French Connection.

Juan-David Nasio, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, is Director of Studies at the University of Paris VII (Sorbonne) and Director of the Sminaires Psychanalytiques de Paris, a major center for psychoanalytic training and the dissemination of psychoanalytic thought to nonspecialists. He is a former member of the cole Freudienne of Jacques Lacan and worked closely with the renowned child analyst Franoise Dolto. He is the Editor of the Psychoanalysis Series at ditions Payot. The author of eight books on psychoanalysis, Dr. Nasio has published numerous articles and interviews in leading publications and has participated extensively in French radio and television broadcasts. He lives in Paris, where he practices psychoanalysis with adults and children.