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As psychoanalysts, we balance on the edge of hope, attuned to the wishes, fears, and fantasies that shape our patients' inner worlds while remaining committed to the truths that illusions conceal. These ideals now stand in precarious disarray. Is hope itself the most dangerous of illusions, one that turns us away from terror, aggression, and the threat of annihilation, or is it the most fundamental aspect of being human? In this issue, we take up the experience of hope as a throughline that runs through each of our essays: hope for knowledge, understanding, community, equality, forbearance, courage, and forgiveness.
In Part 2 of her complex and richly annotated essay, “The Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary Series: Languages of One Psychoanalysis and Many: ‘Migration and Mutation of Concepts’ Across The Globe,” Eva Papiasvili weaves a tapestry of interconnected threads, demonstrating the possibility of emerging from a cacophony of meanings to a more richly translated, diverse and multilayered “multiverse” of understanding. Dr. Papiasvili's excitement and awe in the face of the global translational conversations of the Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary (IRED) are infectious. “In the interactive process of the translation of meaning,” she writes,
meaning is not asserted; it is released in the interplay of juxtaposed elements, in a multivocal dialogical fashion. The translational creativity among various psychoanalytic languages often springs from irreconcilables, released in the act of creation. Hence the triumph!