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This evening's presentation was sponsored by The American Journal of Psychoanalysis (AJP) to raise the funds necessary to convert print versions of the AJP issues into electronic versions on the Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP) library. Joining the ranks of psychoanalytic journals on the PEP will insure the ready availability of the pioneering work done by our founders to students, researchers and clinicians all over the world. It will also preserve the Journal's viability as a forum for dissemination of the courageous, often groundbreaking work being done by the truly original thinkers of our generation. The international appeal of the Journal and Horney's appreciation for culture and anthropology were echoed in Dr. Anthony Molino's talk about the emergence of a transnational phenomenon in fiction whereby the psychoanalytic inquiry is being used for its expositionary value in the reassessment of pivotal moments in the timelines of various cultures. Anthony Molino, Ph.D. is a practicing psychoanalyst, anthropologist, literary translator and author of several books who is presently based in Italy. After the initial presentation, Dr. Molino was joined by Dr. Benjamin Kilborne to further the discussion. Benjamin Kilborne, Ph.D., Associate Editor of the AJP, is in private practice in West Stockbridge, MA, has published extensively in the fields of history, anthropology, literature and psychoanalysis. For the past 20 years one of his major concerns has been the integration of literature and psychoanalysis.
Molino's paper, “Contaminating Genres: Reflections on Ethnography, Literature and Psychoanalysis,” was inspired by anthropologist Michael Fischer's essay “Ethnicity and the Post-Modern Arts of Memory.” In his essay Fischer describes methods similar to dreamwork and transference analysis being employed in ethnic autobiographies as a means of explaining the relationship between identity and ethnicity. Works such as Michael Arlen's Passage to Ararat and Charles M