Lacan and Other Heresies

Linda Clifton is an analyst and former Director of the Freudian School of Melbourne who has edited the three previous volumes of the Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne - Writing the Symptom, Invention in the Real and Since Lacan. Linda works as a psychoanalyst in private practice.

Michael Currie is an analyst member of the Freudian School of Melbourne who practices privately in Melbourne. He also consults part-time to child and adult public mental health services. From 2002 to 2010, he founded and worked in a public outpatient psychoanalysis clinic at the Centre for Psychotherapy in New South Wales. He has written two books on the treatment of aggression in chil- dren and adolescents, published by Melbourne University Press.

Helen Dell is a member of the Freudian School of Melbourne. She also works as a research fellow in English and Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne, researching and writing on medieval song and on "medievalism", ', a fascination for the medieval that often takes a musical turn. Her PhD thesis was published as a book, Desire by Gender and Genre in Trouvère Song. More recently, she has co-edited with Helen Hickey an essay collection on music and death - Singing Death: Reflections on Music and Mortality - published by Routledge in 2017. In her research, she is particularly concerned with the connections between psychoanalysis and creativity.

Christian Fierens is a psychoanalyst who has practiced for more than 30 years in Tervuren, Belgium. He gave a series of public lectures as a guest of the Freud- ian School of Melbourne in 2015 and again in 2019. He is also a psychiatrist, as well as a psychologist with a PhD on the question of psychosis in Freud's work. He has published a number of books on Freudian and Lacanian psy- choanalysis, most recently Lecture du Sinthome [A Reading of the Sinthome] (Erès, 2018).

Peter Gunn is a Lacanian analyst in private practice in Melbourne. He has a continuing interest in madness and in keeping psychoanalysis open to interro- gation from that outside discourse, as well as from other modes of production, including art and literature.

Jonathan Kettle works in private analytic practice and also teaches at a psychol- ogy training institute. He is a member of the Freudian School of Melbourne.

Rodney Kleiman is a psychoanalyst. He is an analyst of the school and co-director of the Freudian School of Melbourne. Originally trained as a psychiatrist, he now works predominantly in private practice with an ongoing appointment as consultant with mental health services. He has published numerous articles in the Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne and is a regular presenter at seminars and psychoanalytic conferences. He has a particular interest in the questions posed by psychosis and its potential treatment.

Malcolm Morgan works as a psychoanalyst. He participates in the seminars of, and receives supervision for his clinical work from, the Freudian School of Melbourne. He also works as a luthier, making classical, flamenco and acoustic guitars.

Tine Norregaard is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Melbourne and an ana- lyst member of the Freudian School of Melbourne. She has written numerous articles on psychoanalysis both in English and in Danish, as well as translated psychoanalytic articles from French to English. Some of her articles are pub- lished in the Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne and in critique, the newsletter of the school, of which she was also a co-editor from 2000 to 2003. From 2007 to 2016, she co-convened the seminar "Psychoanalysis and the Child" with Michael Gerard Plastow. In the past, she has been an associ- ate lecturer at both the Institute of Clinical Psychology and the Department of Philosophy, Education and Rhetoric at the University of Copenhagen.

David Pereira is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Melbourne, Australia, where he is an analyst of the school and is currently a director of the Freud- 1an School of Melbourne. He has written numerous articles on theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis published in both the Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne and elsewhere, and was formerly consultant psychoanalyst with the Alfred Hospital Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service and Senior Clinician with the Department of Child Psychotherapy at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne.

Debbie Plastow is a member of the Freudian School of Melbourne, School of Lacanian Psychoanalysis. She works in private practice (speech pathology and psychoanalysis) in Carlton, and as a speech pathologist at the Austin Child Inpatient Unit.

Michael Gerard Plastow is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Melbourne; he is an Analyst of the Freudian School of Melbourne and the School of Lacan- ian Psychoanalysis. He works in the public sector as a child psychiatrist at the Alfred Child and Youth Mental Health Service. He convenes a seminar on "The Child, the Adult and the Subject of Psychoanalysis". He is the author of What is a Child?: Childhood, Psychoanalysis, and Discourse (Karnac, 2014), and Sabina Spielrein and the Poetry of Psychoanalysis: Writing and the End of Analysis (Routledge, 2019), as well as numerous psychoanalytic papers. He is also translator of a bilingual version of Jacques Lacan's seminar The Knowl- edge of the Psychoanalyst (Association Lacanienne Internationale, 2013), and of Christian Fierens' book The Soul of Narcissism (Routledge, 2019).

Megan Williams is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Melbourne and Geelong and is an analyst of the school of the Freudian School of Melbourne. She has been engaged with psychoanalysis for many years, including presenting semi- nars on many topics and publishing numerous articles and several book chap- ters. Her PhD thesis examined Freud's and Lacan's writings on anxiety and for 3 years she gave a seminar on the place of the father in psychoanalysis. She is currently doing the groundwork for another seminar to commence in 2021.