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Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst, living and working in Vienna, Austria. She is a member and training analyst at the The Wiener Arbeitskreis für Psychoanalyse, WAP where she is also a member and vice-president of the Board. She is the head of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Vienna Sigmund Freud Museum where she had also been the Fulbright Freud Visiting Scholar in Psychoanalysis in 2008. Prior to moving to Vienna, Jeanne Wolff Bernstein was the past president and supervising and personal analyst at PINC (Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California). She is still on the faculty at PINC and at the NYU Postdoctoral Program , New York and teaches at the The Wiener Arbeitskreis für Psychoanalyse (WAP) She has published numerous articles on the interfaces between psychoanalysis, the visual arts and film. Her most recent publications include the chapter on Jacques Lacan in The Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2012/2024), Living between two languages: A Bi-focal Perspective, in Immigration in Psychoanalysis, (2016) Routledge, Dora, the unending and unraveling story, in Dora, Hysteria & Gender: Reconsidering Freud’s Case Study, Leuven University Press, October 2018 and Unexpected antecedents to the concept of the death drive: a return to the beginnings, in Contemporary Perspectives on the Freudian Death Drive, in Theory, Clinical Practice and Culture. Edited Routledge, 2019, 55-68.Her book, The Lure of the Gaze and the Past, Alexander Verlag is forthcoming. She is also the co-editor with Daniela Finzi of Thoughts for the Time on Groups and Masses,A Sigmund Freud Museum Symposium (2024), Leuven University Press and she is the co-editor with Helga Klug and Daniella Kammerer of Neu Denken und Handeln, Der Einfluss gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche auf die Psychoanalyse (2024) Psychosozial Verlag.