Stephen Overy is a teaching fellow at Newcastle University, UK. He specializes in philosophy of the unconscious and desire. His research interests, stemming from his PhD (completed 2015) are in libidinal philosophies of drive and desire and their relation to materialism, considering a line of philosophers comprising Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud, Lacan, Deleuze and Guattari, and Lyotard.