Derek Hook is an Associate Professor and clinical supervisor in Psychology at Duquesne University and an Extraordinary Professor of Psychology at the University of Pretoria. He is the author of A Critical Psychology of the Colonial and Six Moments in Lacan. He is co-editor of Lacan and Race (with Sheldon George) and of Fanon, Phenomenology & Psychology (with Leswin Laubscher and Miraj U. Desai).

Calum Neill is an Associate Professor of Psychoanalysis and Cultural Theory at Edinburgh Napier University. He is the author of Without Ground: Lacanian Ethics and the Assumption of Subjectivity, Ethics and Psychology: Beyond Codes of Practice and Jacques Lacan: The Basics. With Derek Hook, he edits the Palgrave Lacan Series.

Stijn Vanheule is a Clinical Psychologist and a Professor of psychoanalysis and clinical psychology at Ghent University, Belgium. He is also a privately practising psychoanalyst and a member of the New Lacanian School for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective and Psychiatric Diagnosis Revisited - From DSM to Clinical Case Formulation.

Introduction to 'Reading Écrits': La trahison de l'écriture 1. Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty: A New Sophism 2. Presentation on Transference 3. On the Subject who is Finally in Question 4. The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis 5. Variations on the Standard Treatment 6. On a Purpose 7. Introduction and Response to Jean Hyppolite's Commentary on Freud's "Verneinung"