Philosopher, habilitated professor at ''Babeș-Bolyai'' University, Cluj-Napoca, director of the Department of Socio-Human Research, Cluj Branch of the Romanian Academy, psychoanalyst and member of EPFCL, Paris (The School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field). Education: bachelor’s degree in Philosophy (1976) at the same university, PhD in Philosophy, at the University of Bucharest (1998), psychoanalyst, practitioner analyst (EPFCL, Paris, 2014). He has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne (1999), University of Poitiers (2000-2003, 2005-2007), University of Lyon 3, Jean Moulin (2003) and University of Paris 12, Créteil (2010). He also is or was an associate researcher at the Research Center on Hegel and German Idealism, University of Poitiers, of the MCHA team (Métaphysique: Concepts, Histoire, Actualité), Catholic Institute of Toulouse, and of the research team Problèmes cruciaux de la psychanalyse, EPFCL, Paris. He also created the francophone international joint master's degree in Philosophy (1995-2007), thus obtaining several grants from the French Ministry of Education, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the French Embassy in Bucharest. Finally, he was an international university expert of the AUF, Paris (Francophone University Agency, 2004-2008), founding president of the SRF (Romanian Society of Phenomenology, 2000) and of the European College (1997). Among his awards and distinctions: "Ion Petrovici" award of the Romanian Academy (1998), Les Palmes académiques, title awarded by the Prime Minister of the French Government (2001). Areas of interest: modern and contemporary philosophy, phenomenology, psychoanalysis. Books: Time and Eternity (Paideia, 1998), Conscience and Change (Humanitas, 2006), From the State of Exception to the Experience of the Sublime (Paideia, 2006), Être(s) de passage (Zeta Books, 2008). Editor: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, I, II, “International Journal on Humanistic Ideology”, 2018, 2019. Translator: Christiane Lacôté, L'Inconscient (Flammarion, 1998), Charles Melman, L'Homme sans gravité (Erès, 2002).