MA Psychoanalyse

Florian Kleinau holds a Bachelor of Science from University College Utrecht, and an MA in Philosophy and a PhD in Psychology from the Global Centre for Advanced Studies. He directs the GCAS MA in Psychoanalysis programme.

Simon Critchley is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York and a Director of the Onassis Foundation. He has written more than twenty books across continental philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, ethics, and political theory, including studies of Greek tragedy, Heidegger, Shakespeare, David Bowie, football, suicide, and how philosophers die, as well as a novella.

His most recent book, Mysticism (New York Review Books, 2024), approaches mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and a way of life, drawing on music, poetry, and literature as much as on the mystical tradition itself. Other recent works include Bald: 35 Philosophical Short Cuts (Yale University Press, 2021), Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (2019), and Question Everything: A Stone Reader (W. W. Norton, 2023), which he co-edited. Through The Stone at the New York Times, he has done a great deal to carry philosophy into public life.

Clayton Crockett is Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Central Arkansas, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at GCAS. His work spans continental philosophy of religion, political theology, psychoanalytic theory, and new materialism, with a sustained focus on questions of energy.

He is the author of Energy and Change: A New Materialist Cosmotheology (Columbia University Press, 2022), Derrida After the End of Writing: Political Theology and New Materialism (Fordham University Press, 2018), Deleuze Beyond Badiou (Columbia University Press, 2013), and Radical Political Theology: Religion and Politics After Liberalism (Columbia University Press, 2011), as well as Religion, Politics, and the Earth: The New Materialism, co-written with Jeffrey W. Robbins. He co-edits the Insurrections series at Columbia University Press and is a Fellow of the Westar Institute and its Seminar on God and the Human Future.

Bruce Fink is a practising Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor, and Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He completed his doctorate in psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII in 1987, having written his MA thesis in philosophy under Alain Badiou, and trained in the psychoanalytic formation programme of the École de la Cause freudienne in Paris. More than any other figure, he has been responsible for the transmission of Lacan's work into English-language clinical and academic practice.

He is the principal translator of Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English (Norton, 2006), for which he received the French-American Foundation's nonfiction translation prize, as well as of Lacan's Seminar XX: Encore (1998) and Seminar VIII: Transference. His own books include The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance (1995), A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique (1997), Lacan to the Letter: Reading Écrits Closely (2004), Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners (2007), Against Understanding in two volumes (2013–14), Lacan on Love: An Exploration of Lacan's Seminar VIII (2016), and A Clinical Introduction to Freud (2017).

Gabriella Hiatt is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. She holds graduate degrees from the City University of New York in mental health counselling and from New York University in curatorial studies, and completed her post-graduate clinical training as a fellow at the Training Institute for Mental Health and at the Blanton-Peale Institute and Counseling Center.

She continues to draw on a multidisciplinary background in the arts as a dancer and curator, which informs her current research on the embodied act of speaking and the impact of somatic psychology on the shifting values attributed to speech and analytic talk. Her work is influenced by many lines of thought, including Queer of Color Critique and gender and sexuality studies, as well as by Luce Irigaray, Frantz Fanon, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, and her patients.

Eric Jobe completed his PhD at the University of Chicago.

Todd McGowan is Professor of English and Director of Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont, where he teaches theory and film. His work brings Hegelian philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis to bear on politics, cinema, and contemporary culture.

He is the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan (Cambridge University Press, 2025), Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves (Repeater, 2024), The Racist Fantasy, Universality and Identity Politics (Columbia University Press, 2020), Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (Columbia University Press, 2019), Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Columbia University Press, 2016), and The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan (2007). He co-hosts the Why Theory podcast with Ryan Engley, co-edits the Diaeresis series at Northwestern University Press with Slavoj Žižek and Adrian Johnston, and co-organises the annual Lack conference.

Dr Isabel Millar is a philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist from London. Her first book, The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence, was published in 2021 and received widespread critical acclaim.

Rishab Nathan is a Lecturer and PhD Year 1 Advisor at GCAS. He received his PhD from GCAS, where his research explored how both psychoanalytic theory and practice interact with contemporary capitalism. He is currently working on turning his dissertation into a book, in which he argues for the necessity of the theorist, presenting psychoanalysis as the framework through which the theorist is constituted and maintained.

He currently teaches a course in the MA programme on Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis. His other interests include Hegelian and Marxist philosophy, cultural studies, love, and therapy. He is based in Columbus, Ohio, where he is training to be a psychoanalytic counsellor.

Hilary Neroni is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont, where she has taught since 1999 and where she created the Film and Television major. She received her PhD from the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. Her work brings psychoanalytic theory, feminist theory, and Marxism to bear on film and television, examining how ideology is represented on screen and how cultural trends reveal the anxieties and desires of a society at large.

She is the author of The Subject of Torture: Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film (Columbia University Press, 2015), winner of the Peter C. Rollins Book Prize and an honourable mention for the BAFTSS Best Monograph Award; Feminist Film Theory and Cléo from 5 to 7 (Bloomsbury, 2016); and The Violent Woman: Femininity, Narrative, and Violence in Contemporary American Cinema (SUNY Press, 2005). She has published widely on women directors, documentary film, and representations of gender, race, and violence on screen, and co-organises the annual Lack conference.

Helen Rollins graduated as top student in Corpus Christi College at Cambridge University, with a double first in modern languages. She was also a boursière étrangère at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon. At twenty-two she taught French language, film and literature at Eton College, leaving that post two years later to work as a filmmaker.

In her cinematic work she explores ideas of desire, repression and loss. She has a particular interest in psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, and film and literature from the French and Spanish-speaking world. She has taught at GCAS since 2020.

Avital Ronell is University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of German and Comparative Literature at New York University, where she co-directs the trauma and violence transdisciplinary studies programme. She also holds the Jacques Derrida Chair in Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee. She completed her doctorate at Princeton in 1979, and studied with Jacob Taubes in Berlin and with Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous in Paris.

Her books include Dictations: On Haunted Writing (1986), The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech (1989), Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania (1992), Stupidity (2001), The Test Drive (2005), Loser Sons: Politics and Authority (2012), and Complaint: Grievance among Friends (2018), many of them widely translated. Alongside her writing she has worked extensively in performance, chiefly in Germany and France, and has been named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Republic for her contribution to French thought and letters.

Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes is a philosopher of mind and metaphysics at the University of Exeter, where he is a research fellow and lecturer. His work centres on panpsychism and altered states of consciousness, drawing particularly on Whitehead, Nietzsche, and Spinoza.

He is the author of Modes of Sentience: Psychedelics, Metaphysics, Panpsychism (Psychedelic Press, 2021) and Noumenautics: Metaphysics, Meta-Ethics, Psychedelics (2015), and co-editor, with Christine Hauskeller, of Philosophy and Psychedelics: Frameworks for Exceptional Experience (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). With Hauskeller he also founded the Philosophy of Psychedelics Exeter Research Group. His recent writing includes work on pantheism in Philosophical Psychology, and his TEDx talk on psychedelics and consciousness has carried these questions to a much wider audience than academic philosophy usually reaches.

Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She teaches at the New School for Social Research, supervises doctoral students in clinical psychology at the City University of New York, and is a graduate and member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is also a founding member of Das Unbehagen, a collective of psychoanalysts working outside institutional affiliation. Her teaching centres on Lacan's early and late seminars, the body in psychoanalytic thinking, and the influence of structural linguistics on the reading of Freud.

She is the author of On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe (Peninsula/Catapult, 2025), Disorganisation & Sex (Divided, 2022), Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis (Columbia University Press, 2018), and The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2011), and co-wrote Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine (2013) with Simon Critchley. She writes regularly for the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, Artforum, and Spike Art Quarterly, alongside her work in psychoanalytic journals.