Philippe Van Haute is a practicing psychoanalyst, a professor of philosophical anthropology at the University of Nijmegen and extra-ordinary professor at the University of Pretoria (South Africa).  His books include Against Adaptation (Other Press, 2002) and Confusion of Tongues (Other Press, 2004). He is a member of the Center for Psychoanalysis and Philosophical Anthropology and a practicing member of the Belgian School for Psychoanalysis..