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The topic of he sibling complex emerged naturally as a subject of interest to our group. In fact, in creating “Bridges,” our original intention was to reach out to our “psychoanalytic siblings” and to offer what Ricoeur called a “linguistic hospitality,” a form of welcoming from both sides to the language and world of the other. It is in this spirit that the study of this subject attempts to create bridges between two or more diverse experiences and ways of seeing and understanding psychoanalytic concepts. We present the conference report of the panel offered at the annual general meeting in June 2012 in Montreal. The AGM provided a context of geographical and cultural conditions that seem optimal to foster a dialogue amongst the different branches of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society. The panel illustrated how three authors—Renné Kaës (France), Luis Kancyper (Argentina), and Juliet Mitchell (England)—converge and differ in their way of studying the sibling complex. This allowed us to appreciate the diversity, richness, and importance of this concept both theoretically and clinically. In order to enrich the dialogue even further, we asked the three authors to read the Panel Report and to comment on the others' perspectives, and their comments are included here.
Psychoanalysis has not traditionally been very interested in siblings as a subject in its own right. Lately, however, the topic has been approached from a variety of new perspectives (Vivona, R. Balsam, Robertson, Coles, Edwards etc.). For a number of years, members of the Canadian Psychoanalytic