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In our final issue of 2022, we offer a set of reviews and essays that we hope will have something of interest for everyone. We begin with an essay by the child and adolescent psychoanalyst Judith Yanof on Volume 11 of Winnicott's Collected Works, which contains two major pieces, The Piggle and Human Nature. Yanof offers an in-depth reflection on Winnicott's use of interpretation and play, with a focus on his extraordinary work with the child he and her parents called “the Piggle.”
In an essay on Mitchell Wilson's The Analyst's Desire: The Ethical Foundation of Clinical Practice, Giuseppe Civitarese explores Wilson's views of psychoanalytic principles through the lens of desire and the ethical practice of psychoanalysis. According to Civitarese, “Wilson's prose expresses the feeling of a marvelous enduring vitality of psychoanalysis and the awareness of its irreducible strength (but also fragility) in saying something true about the essence of what is human.” With his thorough and insightful reading of Wilson's work, Civitarese brings the reader into conversation with the author, as well as with Lacan, Bion, and others who have considered deeply the analyst's ethical stance and her attitude toward her own desire. As Civitarese writes, “Wilson gives a demonstration of what the ethics of psychoanalysis means. He does not regard scientific debate as an irrelevant, merely scholastic or academic activity… . So for him (and I share his view) it is not true that anything goes.” In his deep reading of Wilson's book, Civitarese invites the reader to consider the significance of “radically assum[ing] responsibility for his or her own desire.”