Laurence Rickels

Professor Rickels is both a theorist and psychotherapist and a regular contributor to Artforum, Art + Text, and Flash Art. He is currently professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Santa Barbara and adjunct professor in the Art and the Film Studies Departments. He is also the Sigmund Freud Professor of Media and Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. He has taught at Art Center College of Design, Otis College of Art and Design, Umeå University and Universität Düsseldorf. He is uthor of Aberrations of Mourning (1988), Der unbetrauerbare Tod (1990), The Case of California (1991), and The Vampire Lectures (1999), and editor of Looking After Nietzsche (1990), Gottfried Keller's Jugenddramen (1990), and Acting Out in Groups (1999), and the three-volume Nazi Psychoanalysis (2002).