Philippe Van haute

Prof. Dr. Ph. Van Haute

Outline biography:

Philippe Van haute studied philosophy in Leuven, Strasbourg and Paris (PhD 1987). He received his psychoanalytic training at the Belgian School for Psychoanalysis of which he was president from 2006-2009.  He worked as a psychoanalyst in private practice from 1992 until 2016. He is a full professor of philosophical anthropology at Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands) since 1992. He was a visiting professor at the University of Leuven (2009_2010) and at the University of Paris VII-Diderot (2018). He was a research fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study (2010, 2011 and 2013) and writer in residence at Birkbeck college, London, UK (2014). He published mainly on contemporary European philosophy and on the relation between psychoanalysis (psychotherapy) and philosophy. Monographs in English: Against Adaptation. Jacques Lacan's Subversion of the Subject (Other Press 2002), (with Tomas Geyskens) Confusion of Tongues. The Primacy of Sexuality in Freud, Ferenczi and Laplanche (Other Press 2004), (with Tomas Geyskens) From Death drive to Attachment Theory. The Primacy of the Child in Freud, Klein and Hermann (Other Press 2007), (with Tomas Geyskens) Towards a non-oedipal Psychoanalysis. Clinical Anthropology of Hysteria in the work of Freud an lacan (Louvain University Press 2012), (with U.Kistner and Herman Westerink) Sigmund Freud. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. The 1905 Edition (Verso 2016), (with Herman Westerink) Reading Freud's "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality". From Pleasure to Object (Routledge, 2021).