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Dear Editor
I wonder if you are able to shed some light on a conundrum that emerged in a group I teach at the University.
We were discussing a paper from Vol. 9(4) of the BJP, ‘Suicidal Acts Among Latency-Age Children as an Expression of Internal Object-Relations’ by Dr Yecheskiel Cohen. One of the students is Israeli and drew my attention to two anomalies:
The footnote to the paper on page 405 provides details of Dr Cohen's employment and refers to Dr Cohen as a ‘she’. Yecheskiel is apparently a man's name.
Of more importance, and of some impact on the argument in the paper, Dr Cohen translates the name of one of her/his patients incorrectly. On page 406 ‘Amikam’ is translated as ‘my father has arisen’ whereas it actually means ‘my people have arisen’. To be ‘my father has arisen’ the name would have to be ‘Avikam’ - close, but not the same.
I wonder if anyone else has written to you raising these points (I recognize that the paper is now six years old and you were not the Editor then), and what the outcome was.
Yours sincerely Lawrence Suss
University of Sussex, Brighton
Jean Arundale replies: