Editor's Introduction

With this issue, the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis / Revue canadienne de psychanalyse enters its tenth year of publication. It is a measure of the success achieved by its founding editor, Eva Lester, in establishing and developing this distinctively Canadian, bilingual psychoanalytic journal that the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada saw fit this year to award it a generous Aid to Scholarly Journals Grant. We are grateful to the SSHRC for their recognition of what we have achieved so far and for the assistance they are providing us in realizing our plans for the Journal's second decade. An important role in the expansion of the Journal that we envisage will be played by Asher Wilner, a former member of the Journal's Editorial Board, who has agreed to return in the capacity of business manager.

I am pleased to announce that beginning with our next issue (vol. io, no 2), Lise Monette, already a member of our Editorial Board, has agreed to serve as co-editor (French) and to work together with me as co-editor (English) to strengthen the bilingual character of the Journal and to encourage and assist francophone colleagues both to identify with and develop their work for publication in the Journal. We believe that our journal offers us a unique opportunity to promote a dialogue between two psychoanalytic traditions that differ not only linguistically but also to some extent in their understandings of and approaches to psychoanalysis We hope to promote this dialogue by inviting critical commentaries of papers produced by members of one community by members of the other—to the benefit of each. We think this may be one way in which our Canadian journal may make a distinctive contribution and establish its unique identity.

This issue marks the inauguration of our new section on film and psychoanalysis In hisEditor's Introduction to this first installment of Elective Affinities, Charles Levin offers some illuminating reflections on “implied” rather t