Avgi Saketopoulou is Cypriot and Greek clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst practicing in NY. She serves on the faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She writes on consent, psychosexuality, race, and politics and her publications have received numerous international prizes from psychoanalytic organizations. Her interview on psychoanalysis is in the permanent holdings of the Freud Museum (Vienna) and her monograph, “Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia”(2023) braids psychoanalysis with performance studies, philosophy, and queer of color critique to explore the vicissitudes of overwhelm and repetition. She is co-author, with Ann Pellegrini, of “Gender Without Identity”, and in critical conversation with Dominique Scarfone in “The Reality of the Message: Psychoanalysis in the Wake of Jean Laplanche”. She is currently working on her next book project provisionally titled “The Offer of Sadism.”