From the Editors

In this mid-year issue, we have taken the opportunity to examine the state of psychoanalysis at the present moment, both here and abroad, as we explore complex questions regarding our changing world and its effect on training, on theory, and on technique. We look at psychoanalysts present and past who have considered these questions from within their particular sociopolitical scope, and we examine the role of the written word as historical marker, as narrative record, and as vessel for human experience. We look forward to resuming our series on The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott with an excellent upcoming review of Volume 10 by John Foehl and Christopher Bonovitz.

Laura Kleinerman's book essay on Julia Kristeva's Je me voyage: Mémoires, entretiens avec Samuel Dock and Alice Jardine's At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva is an admirable example of the inevitable merging of psychoanalysis and the sociopolitical environment. Kleinerman suggests that these books each paint Kristeva's life and work as inseparable by weaving together the personal and intellectual trajectory of one of the most prominent thinkers of our time. Kleinerman follows Kristeva's biographical and intellectual journey by crossing borders, disciplines, and even the facets of the mind that psychoanalysis reveals. By following this journey, Kleinerman aims to highlight, in particular, three of Kristeva's major contributions to the psychoanalytic field: feminine estrangement, abjection, and maternal reliance.

Rudnytsky Revives Ferenczi and Severn

In an appreciative essay, Richard Waugaman, an analyst who has written extensively on English literature, considers two recent works by Peter Rudnytsky, psychoanalyst, professor of English at the University of Florida, and former editor-in-chief of American Imago. In Formulated

Experiences: Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, Rudnytsky illustrates