Mariano Horenstein is a training and supervising analyst who belongs to the IPA (International Psychoanalytical Association), FEPAL (Latin American Psychoanalytical Federation), and the international research group Geographies of Psychoanalysis. He is based in Argentina and lectures internationally. He is the recipient of international awards, has published three other books, and was the first chief editor of Calibán-Latin American Psychoanalytical Journal.

1. Introduction: From up close, nobody is normal 2. Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt, the flip side of a monster 3. Alain Badiou, the power of thought 4. Sophie Calle, a character from a novel 5. Javier Cercas, without roots 6. David Cronenberg, an affable outsider 7. Arnaud Desplechin, failure and its beauty 8. Georges Didi-Huberman, thought worker 9. Peter Eisenman, for whom one analyst is not enough 10. Andrea Fraser, the artist who commits the body 11. Luis González Palma, deliciously anachronistic 12. Eric Kandel, the neuroscientist who loved psychoanalysis 13. Sudhir Kakar, a guru between two worlds 14. Anish Kapoor, the amateur foreigner 15. Julia Kristeva, the foreigner 16 Hanif Kureishi, the indigenous Londoner 17. Daniel Libeskind, nomadic architect 18. Caetano Veloso, the man who dreamed psychoanalysis 19. Slavoj Žižek, the tender agitator 20. In few words (a shared epilogue with J. M. Coetzee and Joseph Kosuth)