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Biography
Bruce Fink is an American Lacanian psychoanalyst and a major translator of Lacan. He is the author of numerous books on Lacan and Lacanian psychoanalysis, prominent among which are Lacan to the Letter: Reading Écrits Closely, The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance (1995), Lacan on Love: An Exploration of Lacan's Seminar VIII and A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique.
Education and work
Bruce Fink did his B.A. at Cornell University and his M.A. and Ph.D. at University of Paris, VIII. At University of Paris VIII he attended "Orientation lacanienne" the weekly seminar given by Jacques-Alain Miller, the foremost interpreter of Lacan's work and the head of Ecole de la Cause Freudienne (School of Freudian Cause). An important advocate of Lacanian approach in the clinical setting and Lacanianism in the anglophone world, he has written many critically acclaimed books on Lacanian psychoanalysis and translated Lacan's major work, Écrits, and many of his seminars, into English. Since 1986, he has presented his theoretical and clinical work at nearly a hundred different conferences, psychoanalytic institutes, and universities in the U.S. and abroad.