Alireza Taheri is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist based in Toronto, Canada. He is a faculty member of Persepolis Psychoanalytic and the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. He is the author of Hegelian-Lacanian Variations on Late Modernity: Spectre of Madness (Routledge) where he develops a novel dialectical theory based on Hegel, Lacan, and Žižek.

Chris Vanderwees is a psychoanalyst, registered psychotherapist, and clinical supervisor at St. John the Compassionate Mission in Toronto, Canada. He is a member of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis and an affiliate of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society.

Reza Naderi is a computer scientist and an author and researcher in the areas of logic, mathematical philosophy, and theories of the subject.

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About the Contributors

Series Preface

Introduction

Lacan's Lesson for Philosophy: Why True Atheism Has to be Indirect

Slavoj Žižek

My Transference with Lacan as a Thinker

Sergio Benvenuto

The Psychiatrist Despite Himself: How Sganarelle Parodied the University Discourse without Knowing It

Alireza Taheri

How Not to Kill a Hysteric

Jamieson Webster

Feed My Desire: Occupy Wall Street and the Prospect of a Lacanian Gay Science

Daniel Adleman

Doomsday Fantasy: The Logic of Logistical Blocking of the Left

Arian Behzadi

Real Ethics and the "Ethics of the Real": After Lacan and Wittgenstein

Paul M. Livingston

Lacan with Derrida

Chris Vanderwees

"Hegel is Our Lacan": Dialectic from Hegel to Lacan to Badiou

Reza Naderi

The Place of Mathematics: Badiou with Lacan

Jelica Šumi¿ Riha

The Logic of Institutions in Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Gabriel Tupinambá