Juan-David Nasio is a psychoanalyst who lives and works in Paris. He was the first psychoanalyst to be inducted into the prestigious French Legion of Honor. Stephanie Grace Schull is Director of Instructional Innovation and Assessment at Hawai'i Pacific University. François Raffoul is Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. David Pettigrew is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. Together Raffoul and Pettigrew have translated Nasio's Five Lessons on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan; The Book of Love and Pain: Thinking at the Limit with Freud and Lacan; and Oedipus: The Most Crucial Concept in Psychoanalysis, all published by SUNY Press.

• Translator’s AcknowledgmentsEditors’ Prefatory Note to the American EditionHow Does a Psychoanalyst Work? Diving "The Big Blue"Joël, or My Fear of Discovering a Case of PsychosisHow Does One Choose a Psychoanalyst?Aimance, or the Need to Be DependentLove and Sexual Pleasure The Solitude of the homosexual Male and the "Bitter Delight" of the Homosexual FemaleJealousy: The Important Man, the Abandoned WomanLove in the CoupleEvery Woman Is a VirginHate and Friendship Hate as an Everyday PhenomenonA Friend is Someone with Whom I feel Happy to Be MyselfAnalysis with a Child How Does One Speak Frankly with One’s Child?Seven Crises that a Child Endures in Order to Grow UpFlorent and Louise: The First Meeting of a Child with the PsychoanalystIn Praise of Hard Work Albertine’s CharmChallenge Yourself!NotesIndex