Lois Oppenheim is University Distinguished Scholar, Professor of French, and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Montclair State University where she teaches courses in both literature and applied psychoanalysis. She is Scholar Associate Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and Honorary Member of the William Alanson White Society. She is the author of many books, including Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion (Routledge, 2012)—awarded the 2013 Courage to Dream Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association—and A Curious Intimacy: Art and Neuro-Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2005).

• Introduction, Interview with…Edward Albee. Mark Morris. Kiki Smith. Joyce Carol Oates. Adam Gopnik. Jacques d’Amboise. Edmund White. Denis Wedlick. Gary Shteyngart. Oliver Sacks. Andrew Solomon.

‘Eavesdropping is fun and instructive. The styles of response to Lois Oppenheim’s questions differ delightfully: some prickliness, some enthusiasm, much we didn’t know. Especially interesting conversations occur with Kiki Smith, Oliver Sacks, Edmund White, and Mark Morris, whose "various flavors of dancing" might well apply here, as well as his "Hooray!".’ - Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature, Graduate School, CUNY and author of To the Boathouse and Surprised in TranslationPsychoanalysis and the Artistic Endeavor. The creative experience is a bit like driving from point A to point B without conscious awareness, suddenly arriving safely, but then transformed by the experience. Lois Oppenheim, a scholar of psychoanalysis, converses with eleven well known artists (literature, architecture, dance, and neuroscience) about their craft and takes us on eleven profound and creative journeys. Not only are we allowed access to their public and private creative processes and work, but also to our own unthought experience. We are indebted to Dr. Oppenheim for these "conversations," and their transforming impact. - Mark D. Smaller, Ph.D., President, American Psychoanalytic Assocaiton.