Bruce Fink, PhD, is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor who trained in France with the psychoanalytic institute Jacques Lacan created shortly before his death, theEcole de la Cause freudiennein Paris. He has translated several of Lacan's works into EnglishincludingEcrits: The First Complete Edition in English, Seminar XX: Encore, andSeminar VIII,Transferenceand is the author of numerous books on Lacan, includingThe Lacanian Subject, A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Lacan to the Letter, Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique, Against Understanding(2 volumes), and most recentlyLacan on Love. A board member of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center, he has also penned several mysteries involving a character loosely based on Jacques Lacan:The Psychoanalytic Adventures of Inspector Canal, Death by Analysis, Odor di Murderer/Scent of a Killer,andThe Purloined Love.