European Journal of Psychoanalysis moves to the Open Library of Humanities

We’re delighted to announce that the European Journal of Psychoanalysis (EJP) is moving to the Open Library of Humanities in 2025! 

The EJP was founded in 1995 by the Italian psychoanalyst, philosopher, and author Sergio Benvenuto, who edited the journal until 2020. The EJP has always been a fiercely independent publication, dedicated to cross-disciplinary inquiry in the fields of psychoanalysis, Lacanian theory, and philosophy. Publishing in four languages (English, Spanish, Italian, and Russian), the journal has been described by scholars as “a must-read in the Lacanian psychoanalytic world” and “a vital resource to those reading continental philosophy, and Freudian and Lacanian theory.”

Over the years, the EJP has published many influential continental thinkers, including Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Slavoj Žižek, Jean Laplanche, Jean-Luc Nancy, as well as American philosophers such as John R. Searle and Richard Rorty. The journal has always maintained a close relationship with clinical practice, drawing on what editors call its ethics of the clinic, that is, supporting cutting-edge writing and theorising that is born from, and has a direct impact on, clinical work. 

Currently edited by Dr Fernando Castrillón, personal and supervising psychoanalyst, Professor Emeritus in the Community Mental Health Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), faculty of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) and the founder and director of the Foundation of California Psychoanalysis (FCP), and Dr Thomas Marchevsky is a licensed psychoanalyst and clinic director of The Clinic Without Walls at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).

OLH Executive Director Dr Caroline Edwards said: “I’m excited to be welcoming the European Journal of Psychoanalysis to the Open Library of Humanities. EJP has been respected as a leading journal in psychoanalytic theory for almost three decades; moving to OLH ensures it can continue this distinguished record and secures the journal’s publishing future. Positioned at the intersection of psychoanalysis and critical theory, EJP offers its readers a compelling set of theoretical tools for our present crisis-ridden era. The journal is a brilliant addition to OLH’s portfolio of cutting-edge humanities and social sciences titles.”

Dr Fernando Castrillón commented: “The work of writing and publishing has always been a crucial pillar of support and elaboration for the psychoanalytic clinic. Since its inception, the EJP has worked to fulfil this vital function by publishing only the very best that the field has to offer and by building a thriving community of readers and critical engagement. By joining the award-winning and widely respected Open Library of Humanities, the EJP secures itself a promising future dedicated to advancing the field in a myriad number of ways. We are very grateful for this opportunity and look forward to collaborating with the OLH for many years to come.”

Dr Thomas Marchevsky said: “We are very excited to join the consortium and are enormously thankful to the OLH. Extending the EJP’s reach via this open access model secures the conditions for an enduring psychoanalytic discourse and continued interrogation of our field. The opportunity to collaborate with the OLH not only aligns with our longstanding vision for the journal, but also a commitment to psychoanalysis—it signifies a new and perhaps now necessary mode of transmission."

The European Journal of Psychoanalysis is the first of several new journals joining the OLH in 2025, with more announcements coming soon. Thanks to the support of our international network of library members, the OLH has been able to undertake the complex, skilled technical work of migrating these journals and committing to fund the cost of their publication in perpetuity.

About OLH: The Open Library of Humanities is an award-winning, academic-led, diamond open-access publisher of 33+ journals based at Birkbeck, University of London. With initial funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and subsequent support from Arcadia, a charitable fund, the platform covers its costs by payments from an international library consortium rather than any author fee. This funding mechanism enables equitable open access in the humanities disciplines, with charges neither to readers nor authors. 

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