Mark Bracher is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Literature and Psychoanalysis at Kent State University. Marshall W. Alcorn is Associate Professor of English at George Washington University. Ronald J. Corthell is Associate Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at Kent State University. Franoise Massardier-Kenney is Associate Professor of French and a member of the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Kent State University.

"I recommend it to all researchers in cultural analysis, and to all those who were afraid to ask Lacan about Lacan." - Juliet Flower MacCannell,author of Figuring Lacan "Provides an important and provocative guide to a region of Lacanian theory not yet widely explored." - Jonathan Scott Lee,author of Jacques Lacan