PARTICIPANTS
Laurence A. Rickels

Both a theorist and psychotherapist, Laurence Rickels focuses on the genealogy of media (of both occult mediums and media technologies), Freud, psychoanalytic theories, and the overlaps between psychoanalysis and various other critical discourses. He is the author of Aberrations of Mourning (1988), Der unbetrauerbare Tod (1990), The Case of California (1991), and The Vampire Lectures (1999); editor of Looking After Nietzsche (1990), Gottfried Keller's Jugenddramen (1990), and Acting Out in Groups (1999); and a regular contributor to Artforum, Art + Text, and Flash Art. His three-volume study, Nazi Psychoanalysis will be published in Spring 2002.

Rickels is Professor and Acting Chair of the UC Santa Barbara Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semetic Languages. He has taught at Art Center College of Design, Otis College of Art and Design, Umeå University and Universität Düsseldorf.