ABOUT ME

Sergio Benvenuto is a retired researcher with the Italian CNR. He also works as a psychoanalyst, is fond of philosophy and feels obliged to deal with political theory. On these three themes – which only apparently combine – he has published and published a lot, and sometimes one wonders why.

In the past it was part of schools and associations psychoanalytic, now no longer. He is limited to the Elvio Fachinelli Institute (Advanced Studies in Psychoanalysis), and still collaborates with the journal he founded, European Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is the editor of some psychoanalytic journals in English.

He usually lives in Rome, although he would often like to be elsewhere.
In Canada, for example…

 

Also visit:  (F)LUXURY – Not to be found writings

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Publications in English

Bibliography of Sergio Benvenuto: https://www.sergiobenvenuto.it/bibliography.php

  • “The Son’s Room” or: Analysis is Over”, Journal of European Psychoanalysis, n. 12-13, 2001, pp. 163–172.
  • “Psychoanalysis and Mimetic Theory: Difference and Identity. A Conversation of Sergio Benvenuto with René Girard”, Journal of European Psychoanalysis, 14, Winter-Spring 2002, pp. 3–25.
  • “Freud and Masochism”, Journal of European Psychoanalysis, 16, Winter-Spring 2003, pp. 57–80.
  • “On Perversions”, Journal for Lacanian Studies, vol. 1, n. 2, 2003, pp. 243–260.
  • “Perversion and charity: an ethical approach”, in Dany Nobus and Lisa Downing, Perversion. Psychoanalytic Perspectives / Perspectives on Psychoanalysis, London, Karnac 2006, pp. 59–78.
  • “Dora flees…”, Journal of European Psychoanalysis, 21, 2005/2, pp. 3–31.
  • “Simplistic Complexity: A Discussion on Psychoanalysis and Chaos Theory”, World Futures, vol. 61, n. 3, 2005, pp. 181–187.
  • “Anatomical Women”, Journal of European Psychoanalysis, 22, 1/2006, pp. 117–122.
  • “Wittgenstein and Lacan Reading Freud”, Journal for Lacanian Studies, vol. 4, nr. 1, 2006, pp. 99–120.
  • “Resistances”, Jean-François Lyotard, A conversation with Sergio Benvenuto, Journal of European Psychoanalysis, 24, 2007-1,
  • With Anthony Molino, In Freud’s Tracks. Conversations from the Journal of European Psychoanalysis, Washington DC, Aronson, 2008.
  • “Introduction to the Italian Edition of Daly & Žižek, A Conversation with Žižek”, European Journal of Psychoanalysis, 26-27, 2008 I-II, pp. 67–97. ISSN 2038-5196.
  • “Sublimation and compassion”, European Journal of Psychoanalysis, 29, 2009/2, pp. 49–76. ISSN 2038-5196
  • “Perversions Today”, European Journal of Psychoanalysis, 30, 2010-I, pp. 27–40. ISSN 2038-5196
  • “The Monsters Next Door”, American Imago. Psychoanalysis and Human Sciences, 69, Winter 2012, n. 4, pp. 435–448.
  • “The Earth is Evil: On Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia”, DIVISION/Review, A Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum, 7, Spring 2012, pp. 41–43.
  • “The Idiot’s Tragedy”, Sara Fortuna & Laura Scuriatti eds., On Dogville, Dekalog 5, London-New York, Columbia University Press, Wallflower, 2012, pp. 22–37.
  • “The Dandy Dentist (Review of : Elisabeth Roudinesco, Lacan, envers et contre tout, Paris, Seuil, 2011)”, DIVISION/Review, 5, summer 2012, pp. 4–7.
  • “Happiness for Dismal Science”, The Candidate Connection. Newsletter, January 2012, vol. 14, issue 1, pp. 4–7,
  • “Failing Democracies”, Magyar Lettre Internationale, 88, 2013, pp. 39–42.
  • “Does Perversion Need the Law?”, edited by Wolfgang Müller-Funk, Ingrid Scholz-Strasser, Herman Westerink, Psychoanalysis, Monotheism and Morality. The Sigmund Freud Museum Symposia 2009-2011, Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2013, pp. 175–184.
  • “Ethics, Wonder and Real in Wittgenstein”, in Ylva Gustafsson, Camilla Kronqvist, Hannes Nykänen, eds., Ethics and the Philosophy of Culture: Wittgensteinian Approaches, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2013, pp. 137–159.
  • What are Perversions? Sexuality, Ethics, Psychoanalysis, London, Karnac, 2016.
  • Conversations with Lacan. Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan, London, Routledge 2020.
  • Contributor to Coronavirus, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy Conversations on Pandemics, Politics and Society, edited by Fernando Castrillón & Thomas Marchevsky, London, Routledge, 2021.
  • Lacan, Kris and the Psychoanalytic Legacy: the Brain Eater, London, Routledge 2023.

 

External links in english

 

Main works in italian

  • La strategia freudiana, Napoli, Liguori, 1984.
  • Capire l’America, Genova, Costa & Nolan, 1995.
  • Dicerie e pettegolezzi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2000.
  • Un cannibale alla nostra mensa. Gli argomenti del relativismo nell’epoca della globalizzazione, Bari, Dedalo, 2000.
  • Sessualità, etica e psicoanalisi, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2005.
  • La passione dell’indifferenza, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.
  • Lo jettatore, Milano, Mimesis, 2011.
  • La gelosia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011.
  • Confini dell’interpretazione. Freud Feyerabend Foucault, Milano, IPOC, 2013.
  • “Sono uno spettro, ma non lo so”, Milano, Mimesis, 2013.
  • La psicoanalisi e il reale, Salerno, Ortthotes,
  • Leggere Freud. Dall’isteria alla fine dell’analisi, Salerno, Orthotes, 2018.
  • Godere senza limiti. Un italiano nel maggio 68, Milano, Mimesis,
  • La ballata del mangiatore di cervella. Kris, Lacan e l’eredità freudiana, Salerno, Orthotes, 2020.
  • Lo psichiatra e il sesso. Una critica radicale della psichiatria del DSM-5, Milano, Mimesis, 2021.
  • Soggetto e masse, Roma, Castelvecchi, 2022. 
  • Il teatro di Oklahoma. Miti e limiti della filosofia politica, Roma, Castelvecchi, 2022.

 

External links in other languages