Ulrike Kistner: Casuistics and Causality in Psychoanalysis. The Elaboration of an ‘Aetiology of Neurosis’, 1893-1906

The role of psychoanalysis as science of mental life is the subject of ongoing debates and controversies. These are animated by questions in the philosophy of mind, and by indictments of psychoanalysis for its ‘scientistic misunderstanding’ (Habermas, Ricœur) on the one hand, and for its lack of scientificity (Popper), on the other hand.

Rather than rallying to the one or other position, I would like to take my cue from the idea that the scientific status of psychoanalysis depends on demonstrating the link between mentalistic and physicalist explanations. A pivotal building block in this bridge is that of causality, which impels us to investigate the nature of psychical causes as they interact with each other in highly individually specific and contingent motivational, representational structures, and with causes in the physical world amenable to nomological explanations. In both cases, and in the combination of both cases, causality is the vehicle of explanation.

In his search for explanations linking symptoms to causes, Freud (at times in collaboration with Breuer) turns to the emerging science of bacteriology with its identification of specific causes and nosologies, and differential diagnostics. In writings of the 1890s, Freud takes up the ‘bacteriological revolution’ in his elaboration of an aetiology of neurosis. In my contribution to the Conference, I will show how early psychoanalytic theory closely tracks the changes in, and debates on, the conceptualisation of disease causation, with its possibilities and limitations, which in turn become pathbreaking for psychoanalytic theory – from the differential diagnosis of neurosis (as distinct from ‘neurasthenia’ and ‘diseases of the nervous system’) through a psychological theory of hysteria and subsequently, a sexual aetiology of neurosis, to the modification of the seduction theory and Nachträglichkeit.

Ulrike Kistner is Professor Emerita in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria. Her research activities and publications are focused on social theory, psychoanalytic theory, and political philosophy. She has also translated texts from these fields – among others, the first edition of Freud’s Three Essays on a Theory of Sexuality.

Ruud Welten: The Conflict between Science and Religion in Freud and Zola

Various references in Freud's writings to Émile Zola (1840–1902) reveal his fascination with the French writer. My contribution explores a remarkable parallel, if not direct influence of Zola on Freud. A parallel reading of Die Zukunft einer Illusion (1927) and Zola’s later work from Le docteur Pascal (1893) reveals a shared moral necessity to question the meaning of religion for humanity in favour of science. In Le docteur Pascal, the concluding novel of Zola’s Les Rougon-Macquart-cycle, the issue is the debate between science and religion in the quest for the meaning of life. It can also be seen as the initial impetus for the critique of religion as Zola elaborates in his later trilogy Les trois villes. Both Die Zukunft einer Illusion and Zola’s later work witness a conflict between scientific optimism taking imperative forms and the inescapable bankruptcy of religion. Both Zola and Freud literally stage the problematic, almost impossible dialogue between science and religion. Like Zola, Freud gives voice to an imaginary religious opponent. In short, my goal is twofold: I hope to contribute to an understanding of Zola's significance for Freud and to the fierce conflict between science and religion.

Ruud Welten is ordinary professor of ‘contemporary approaches to human subjectivity’ at the Erasmus School of Philosophy in Rotterdam and associate professor of philosophy at the philosophy department of the School of Humanities at Tilburg University. At both universities, he teaches on Freud and Lacan in the master's degree. He publishes mainly on French philosophers and writers, such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Henry and Jacques Lacan. His book Who’s afraid of Simone De Beauvoir? (2021, Dutch) will appear next year in English. He is currently working on a book-length study of truth in nineteenth-century French literature.

Nadine Hartmann: “The Symbolic is not the tomb of matter”: Catherine Malabou on Sexual Difference

In her thinking of plasticity, Catherine Malabou keeps encouraging the philosophers not to shy away from terms such as “substance”, “essence”, and “nature”. These concepts are viewed with particular suspicion in feminist discourses, which since the early 1990s have largely identified themselves by way of a demarcation against a so-called feminist “essentialism”. Malabou confronts these approaches with an idea of sexual difference as neither external imprint on passive matter nor as essence in the sense of a stable, unchanging core of being. What could that mean? How do we respond to her call to think “woman” as empty but resistant essence? Why her insistence on holding fast to the signifiers “woman” and “the feminine”? Do we think of that essence as gender, sexe, genre, or, perhaps even as species, “womankind”?

The talk aims to trace Malabou’s efforts to hold those polarities in suspension and to place her elaborations on bodily zones, biological facts, on the one hand, and the adherence to “empty signifiers” on the other among psychoanalytic attempts to address the “the gap in the psyche” as which the biological fact of sex manifests itself according to Freud.

Nadine Hartmann works as a psychoanalyst in private practice and as a lecturer for philosophy and aesthetics in Berlin and is currently a guest professor for art theory and media philosophy at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. She holds a PhD in cultural theory and MAs in literature and clinical psychology. She is a member of PsyBi Berlin and SIPP-ISPP. She has published on the theoretical work of Georges Bataille, on Luce Irigaray, Catherine Malabou and the feminist philosophy of sexual difference, as well as on Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis. Her book “Thinking Like a Girl – Figuration, Fil(l)iation”, and Sexual Difference is forthcoming with Turia & Kant (in German).

Marlen Bidwell-Steiner: Moderation

Marlen Bidwell-Steiner is a literary and gender researcher at the Department of Romance Studies at the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on the history of body-mind concepts and emotions; literature & psychoanalysis; fictionality, as to be seen in her latest edited volume “Entrapped in warp and weft”, Zeitsprünge – Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit (Studies in Early Modern History, Culture and Science), 1-2,2024.

Herman Westerink and Jenny Willner: Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Freud's Bio-Analytical Project

In this contribution, we inquire into the various references to biology and evolutionary theory in Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle. We argue that these references are neither merely metaphorical within meta-psychological theorization, nor should they be regarded as expressions of biologism or reductionism. Instead, we situate Freud’s biological speculation within the joint project he and Sándor Ferenczi pursued during the First World War: bio-analysis. The aim of this unfinished endeavor was to apply psychoanalytic concepts to organic phenomena and to speculatively draw out general principles and processes at work in all organic matter and its development. This can be seen as one of the most radical implications of Freud’s patho-analysis – the study of human existence from the perspective of clinical knowledge of psychopathologies. At the same time, it offers a productive lens through which to reconsider Freud’s theorization of the life and death drives.

Herman Westerink is Endowed Professor and Associate Professor for philosophy of religion at the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He did his PhD at the University of Groningen and wrote his professorial dissertation (Habilitation) at the University of Vienna. He has published many books and articles on Freudian psychoanalysis, sexuality, subjectivity and religion. Amongst others he published a monograph on Freud’s theories of the sense of guilt (2009), a monograph on and text editions of the first edition of Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (2016, 2021, with Philippe Van Haute). Also, he published a monograph on Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality (2019). Recently he published a monograph on Freud’s metaphysics of trauma (2022, with Philippe Van Haute). He is co-editor of the book series “Sigmund Freuds Werke: Wiener Interdisziplinäre Kommentare” (Vienna UP) and of the book series “Figures of the Unconscious” (Leuven University Press). He is member of the International Society for Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (ISPP/SIPP) and its Freud Research Group.

Jenny Willner is a Professor for Comparative Literature at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. She completed her PhD at FU Berlin with Wortgewalt. Peter Weiss und die deutsche Sprache (Konstanz UP, 2014). Her work on Freud and Ferenczi has been published in Psyche. Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen (11, 2020), RISS. Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse (94, 2021), Psychoanalysis and History (24, 2022) and Imágó Budapest (3, 2023). She co-authored the book Ferenczi Dialogues. On Trauma and Catastrophe with Raluca Soreanu and Jakob Staberg (Leuven UP, 2023) and co-edited the volume Towards the Limits of Freudian Thinking. Critical Edition and Readings of Beyond the Pleasure Principle together with Herman Westerink and Philippe Van Haute (Leuven UP, 2024). In 2024 she also completed her dissertation (Habilitation) at the LMU Munich: Unbehagen am Erbe which discusses Freud and Ferenczi’s bio-analysis in relation the ideologically charged natural scientific debates of their time.

Raluca Soreanu: Blue Psychoanalysis: Ferenczi’s Exploration of the Sea in Thalassa

In our times voices of the ‘blue humanities’ start from the sea as a political act, placing cultural history in an oceanic rather than terrestrial context. Human civilisation has been situated mostly in pastoral fields, enclosed gardens or cities. What happens if we start from the sailor and swimmer, from sea critters, from the movement across oceans, and from estrangements at sea, rather than from settlements on land? This is a project for a ‘blue psychoanalysis’. In his 1924 book Thalassa, Ferenczi starts from the sea and sea life, and he intervenes in both the understanding of the drives, and the theory of sexuality. He works with analogies from organic life, paying close attention to marine beings, learning from their breathing techniques, their resilience, and their ways of splitting themselves up. He constructs a version of psychoanalytic theory that accounts for the psychic life of fragments and organs. His reflections on the secret life of organs can be opened up for current theoretical debates in contemporary feminism and new materialism, particularly in works by Donna Haraway and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Furthermore, Ferenczi presents us with a particular modification to the sphere of the dualism death drive/life drive: he renames them the ‘drive of self-assertion’ and the ‘drive of conciliation’. The ‘selflessness’ he evokes includes the ‘selflessness’ of organs: it emerges in relation to the scene of trauma and it describes a complex psychic state, which considers otherness and the relationship to the environment. The ‘drive for conciliation’ expresses the fact that in order survive, as any sort of individuality, one needs to practice a kind of politics of self-limitation. Ferenczi names this ‘the feminine principle’ and ties it with a revision of conceptions of genitality. He invites us to a democratisation of forms of erotism, via the notion of amphimixis: he has in mind a clever combination of mechanisms of pleasure, with rich mixtures and transpositions.

Raluca Soreanu is a psychoanalytic and psychosocial thinker and writer. She is Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, and psychoanalyst, member of the Círculo Psicanalítico do Rio de Janeiro and of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis UK. She is the author of Working-through Collective Wounds: Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising (Palgrave, 2018) and the co-author, with Jenny Willner and Jakob Staberg of Ferenczi Dialogues: On Trauma and Catastrophe (Leuven University Press, 2023). At present, Raluca Soreanu is working on a theoretical-clinical monograph, The Psychic Life of Fragments. On Splitting and the Experience of Time in Psychoanalysis. She is the project lead of FREEPSY: Free Clinics and a Psychoanalysis for the People: Progressive Histories, Collective Practices, Implications for Our Times (UKRI Frontier Research Grant); Academic Associate of The Freud Museum London; and Editor of the Studies in the Psychosocial series at Palgrave and of the Important Little Books in Psychoanalysis Series at 1968 Press.

Sam Adriaenssens: Moderation

Sam Adriaenssens has a background in engineering, psychology and philosophy. He currently works at the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Additionally, he is a programme officer for the Hestia grant providing academic opportunities for refugees. During his master studies in Philosophy of the Behavioural Sciences he was interested in the intersection of psychoanalysis with feminist and de/postcolonial theory. His thesis centered around Ranjana Khanna’s Dark Continents and Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia” and Moses and Monotheism.

Max Cavitch: Kicking “Spot”; or, The New Psychomorphism

Psychoanalysis is inexorably part of what Giorgio Agamben calls the “anthropogenic machine.” And while it remains the most sophisticated and comprehensive account of “human nature” yet devised, psychoanalysis has all but ignored two contemporary dimensions of what human beings are becoming: 1) our increasing awareness of the human animality that the “anthropogenic machine” seeks to exclude; and 2) our increasing evolutionary resemblance to the intelligent machines we are creating. My paper explores a case of what I call “interloping,” by which I mean the effort to manage and understand the often messy and confusing breakdown of established boundaries between the categories human, animal, and machine. This case is drawn from the field of robotics, where the old Cartesian mechanomorphism (the view that nonhuman animals are merely reactive machines) has received a new and consequential “kick” from the creation of sophisticated canine robots – robots with whom many humans have formed strong attachments. These attachments inevitably draw on the archaic experiences of early childhood, when we have a much less secure sense of the difference between the animate and the inanimate. Indeed, Freud has shown us (e.g., in his work on “the uncanny”) that we never develop a wholly secure sense of such a difference. Yet no simple analogy can be drawn between the mechanical dolls of Freud’s era and today’s AI-robots. The difference between them approaches the ontological, which suggests that such attachments and our feelings about them can’t be encompassed by a complacently anthropocentric psychoanalysis. It suggests that even scientific experimentation is becoming more like a complex mode of interpersonalism, where affective bonds can flourish even as traumas accumulate, and where solidarities can emerge even as cycles of assault and retribution continue. The difference, in this case, comes down to a man kicking a robotic dog named “Spot” and to the ethical conundrums raised by that kick.

Max Cavitch is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and a faculty affiliate of Penn’s programs in Comparative Literature and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. He is also a founding faculty member and current Co-director of Penn’s Psychoanalytic Studies program, as well as the Founding Editor of the blog Psyche on Campus—winner of the 2022 “Award for Excellence in Journalism” from the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is the author of dozens of scholarly articles on American and African American Literature, Cinema Studies, Poetry and Poetics, and Psychoanalytic Studies. He is also the author of two scholarly monographs, American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman (University of Minnesota Press, 2007) and Psychoanalysis and the University: Resistance and Renewal from Freud to the Present (Routledge, 2025); the editor of Walt Whitman’s Specimen Days (Oxford University Press, 2023) and (with Brian Connolly) of Situation Critical! Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies (Duke University Press, 2024); and the co-translator (with Noura Wedell and Paul Grant) of Jean Louis Schefer’s The Ordinary Man of Cinema [L’Homme ordinaire du cinema] (MIT Press, 2016). His latest book, Ashes: A History of Thought and Substance, is forthcoming from Punctum Books.

Nicholas Ray: Freud, Animals, and ‘Human Nature’: From Hermeneutic Suspicion to the Anthropogenic Machine

My paper explores the place of animal others in Freud’s account of psychic life. It proposes that two distinct approaches to this theme emerge in his work. The first, which I call the approach of ‘hermeneutic suspicion’ develops primarily in the case histories. These texts bear witness to a preoccupation among his patients with the question of species identity – one that manifests in symptoms, dreams, and fantasies replete with animal figures. Yet Freud’s invariable response is to assume that these figures are symbolic masks for human referents and that interpretation must reveal them as such: the wolf of the phobia is merely a mask for the desired father; the uncanny butterfly a mask for the alluring maid, etc. In the context of Freud’s clinical work, then, the possibility that animal others possess intrinsic psychic or aetiological significance, or that species difference per se might be an object of conscious or unconscious attention, is largely foreclosed.

However, a contrasting approach emerges in Freud’s often overlooked hypothesis about human bipedality and its consequences for our relationship to ourselves and the nonhuman world. I suggest that this hypothesis places an abnegation of kinship with other animals at the foundation of psychic life – one that alienates us from our own animality and licences the cruelty that so often marks the human treatment of other animals, and of people deemed insufficiently ‘human’. Reading Freud’s hypothesis in tandem with Giorgio Agamben’s (2004) account of the human as an ‘anthropogenic machine’ – i.e. not a given product of biological processes but a being that works ceaselessly to produce itself by a negation of animality – I suggest it has two key implications: (1) it acknowledges species identity and our relation to animals as matters of deep psychic significance; (2) it articulates a view of ‘human nature’ not as being exceptional vis-à-vis other species but as being constituted by the fantasy of its own exceptionality.

Nicholas Ray is an Associate Professor in the School of English at the University of Leeds, UK. He works on psychoanalytic theory and intersections between psychoanalysis and culture. He is the author of Tragedy & Otherness: Sophocles, Shakespeare, Psychoanalysis, editor of Interrogating the Shield, and co-editor, with John Fletcher, of Seductions & Enigmas: Laplanche, Theory, Culture. His writing on the human/animal relation in psychoanalytic theory has appeared in the journals Humanimalia, The Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Animot: L’altra filosofia and Sitegeist. His most recent publications include a journal article on conceptions of psychic plasticity in television horror films and a co-authored chapter, also with John Fletcher, on the theme of temporality in the work of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche. His current book project – still in its early stages – is provisionally titled, Psychoanalysis & the Subject of Anxiety: From Freud to Laplanche.

Dominik Drexel: Moderation

Dominik Drexel holds degrees in Social Sciences and Conflict Research and a PhD in Psychoanalytic Educational Sciences. Besides his profession in private higher education, his research covers psychoanalytic conceptions of the wish, psychic development regarding wearing the Islamic veil in western societies, and more recently political apocalypticism.

Esther Hutfless: “You’re not human until you’re posthuman” On Cyborgs, Techno-Bodies and Prosthetic Gods… and Psychoanalysis as a Cyborg Technology

In the lecture “You’re not human until you’re posthuman” Esther Hutfless explores the figure of the cyborg as a central metaphor for contemporary processes of subjectivation in technologically mediated cultures, drawing from psychoanalytic, queer-theoretical, and post- and transhumanist perspectives. Starting with Freud’s concept of the “prosthetic god” and Donna Haraway’s feminist cyborg fiction, Hutfless develops a critical reflection on transhumanist discourses of optimization that conceive of the human as a deficit to be overcome and technology as a redemptive force. In dialogue with theorists such as Baudrillard, Žižek, Braidotti, Preciado, and Haraway, Hutfless outlines a tension between pathologizing readings of the techno-body (psychosis, perversion) and productive, resistant conceptualizations of posthuman subjectivity. Psychoanalysis itself is reconfigured as a hybrid “cyborg technology” that operates through the absence of origin, and the openness of symbolic orders. The article advocates for an ethical and imaginative rearticulation of the human beyond teleological myths of progress – as a fragile, porous, and relational mode of existence in the age of the technological.

Esther Hutfless is a philosopher, psychoanalyst, and psychotherapy scholar, and a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association. Hutfless is Professor of Queer-Feminist Psychotherapy Studies and Psychoanalysis at the Sigmund Freud Private University in Linz, and teaches at the University of Vienna and the Vienna Psychoanalytic Academy. Their research areas include: psychoanalytic theory and practice, feminist and queer approaches in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy studies, poststructuralism, posthumanism, deconstruction, gender and sexuality, trauma, societal power relations, and the unconscious, as well as psychoanalytic theories of society.
More information at: www.hutfless.at

Marcus Coelen: Clinical Geologies. The Pre- or Para- of the Human in Psychoanalysis

One of the most wrongly quoted Freudian images refers to the geological term of “bedrock.” Its apocryphal outcrop is the ‘bedrock of castration,’ an expression not to be found in Freud, and one which tends to distort the image in question. It is, we read in Analysis Terminable and Interminable, “the biological that plays for the psychological the role of the bedrock.” But even more disturbing than ‘simply’ castration is the element which Freud places at the end of his chain of terms that led to the stony level of inscrutable interminability of analysis: “The repudiation of femininity,” posed as “a biological fact” and “part of the enigma of sexuation [Geschlechtlichkeit].” Bedrock of repudiation?

A lot of scrutiny and criticism have been addressed, and necessarily so, to the question of why the unextractable misogyny, as a trait of society or even civilization, is turned into a biological real, impossible to dig into. But what to make of the geological image—if it is one—at the bottom?

Yet, with bedrock, we curiously don’t hit bottom rock: in German, it is “gewachsener Fels." While it refers to the oldest unaltered rock for the longest time, it is not necessarily the most solid. A certain plasticity, however imperceptible, might even be attributed to it as it has grown, moved, or developed slowly over unfathomably long periods.

While it has become established that the dichotomic concepts of “culture” and “nature,” repress more fallacies and poorly analyzed forces than contain truths, and while humans can best be defined as unstable subjects mainly concerned with defining themselves through violent divides and repudiations of the non-human, the fossilization of the sexual remains still, largely, and interminably unanalyzed.

With the bedrock, we meet the stratum of enigmatic Nature. I will unearth some geological elements, terms, and layers in the formations that make up the psychoanalytic planet. Can we still be called “human” as we, while fracking, drilling, extracting from and inserting into it, continue to attempt to live and die on it?

Marcus Coelen is a psychoanalyst and psychoanalytic supervisor, mainly in Berlin and New York. He also teaches literature and theory, most recently at Columbia University, New York, and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, where he is on the faculty of the comparative literature department. He is the founder and co-editor of the book series “Neue Subjektile” with the Turia+Kant and one of the editors of the journal RISS. Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse. His publications include, among others, a book on Proust and Kant’s aesthetic judgement (Die Tyrannei des Partikularen, Munich, Fink, 2007), a volume on Georges Bataille (together with Mark Hewson, Key Concepts, London, Routledge, 2015), several translations and editions in German of texts by Maurice Blanchot (Vergehen [Le pas au-delà], Berlin, diaphanes, 2011; [zusammen mit Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé und Christian Driesen], Das unendliche Gespräch, Vienna, Turia+Kant, 2023), as well as many articles in journals such as Yale French Studies, Critique, texte and other journals.He has been involved in several, more or less experimental, psychoanalytic groups or associations such as pli - psychoanalyse nach Lacan, DasUnbehagen in New York, and the Forum for Psychoanalytic Practice in Berlin. He publicly defends and advocates for the concept of a ‘free’ psychoanalysis, as expressed by Freud in “The Question of Lay Analysis” and in branches of the Lacanian tradition. This refers to a psychoanalysis that remains independent of state control, regulation by the health industry, institutional orthodoxy, and subversive regarding commodity economy while subjecting itself to the rigor and creativity of its discoveries and inventions. (See his recent publication, together with Mai Wegener and Monique David-Ménard, Die Freiheit der Psychoanalyse. Eine kommentierte Ausgabe von Sigmund Freud, Die Frage der Laienanalyse, Vienna, Turia+Kant 2024.)

Jill Salberg: Living While Humanity Is on the Precipice: Psychoanalysis, Ethics and Human Nature

Following Descartes, “I think therefore I am” many writers have posited that what differentiates the human species from other species is the capacity to reflect on one’s own existence and one’s own death.  Freud considered our instinctual drives, our animal side, but saw them as in conflict with civilization, needing repression.  Philosophy since Modernity and specifically Existentialism has struggled with our alienation from each other and the world.  Heidegger acknowledged our being in the world with others but questioned the meaning of our being, our authentic self vs. our conformist self.  It was Levinas in his break with Heidegger that shifted thinking from “being” or existence being primary in philosophy to ethics as primary. Levinas’s argument held that in seeing the face of the Other, we become responsible for others. Donna Orange, who this conference has honored, wedded her philosophical training with psychoanalysis drawing upon Levinas.  She believed we were inherently relational and agreed that we are bound ethically to one another.

If our capacity for moral responsibility is part of our humanity, how are we to think about the advent of AI and transhumanism? Do we lose our humanity as technology, and computers expand their capacity, when AI thinks for us?  Technology is without Freud’s Unconscious or Levinas’s ability to see the Other. In this talk I will draw upon these threads to reflect on this historical moment we find ourselves in.  With right wing fanaticism evidenced in autocratic, fascistic politics and policies taking over and destroying democratic societies are we losing our moral compass and our essential humanity?

Jill Salberg is Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Faculty and Clinical Consultant/Supervisor in the analytic training program, Faculty and Supervisor at The Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies and Member of IPTAR, Member of IPA. She is Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Reviewer for The International Journal of Psychoanalysis and part of the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Quarterly. She also is Co-Editor of Psyche and Soul: Psychoanalysis, Spirituality and Religion in Dialogue. Among her publications are Transgenerational Trauma: A Contemporary. Introduction (edited together with Sue Grand, Routledge, 2024, part of the Routledge Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis Book Series), and The Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Trans-Generational Transmission of Trauma (edited together with Sue Grand, Routledge, 2017).

Georgia Panteli: Moderation

Georgia Panteli teaches film and comparative literature at the University of Vienna and at University College London. Her monograph From Puppet to Cyborg: Pinocchio's Posthuman Journey was published in 2022. Her research interests include posthumanism, science fiction, myths, fairy tales and their retellings.

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