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For this special issue of DIVISION/Review, we have curated a series of commentaries by psychoanalysts from differing theoretical persuasions on the recorded analysis of a woman referred to as Mrs. C, whose database of sessions of her six years of analysis has been the subject of research for decades. This collection of papers in D/R is itself the partial record of an event held at The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in November of 2018, marking a year-long investigation on the revolutions in psychoanalytic technique since Freud. Some members of that original panel have changed, and new voices have been added; in addition to these, one of the original researchers, Wilma Bucci, has returned to the case to see how research findings “measure up” to the theoretical speculations of our esteemed analysts, so many years later. What can one say or do or learn from a recorded analysis? You will read about Mrs. C, these sessions, the history of research, and then, seven commentaries on two weeks of analysis (themselves separated by two years) that we chose from the archive: Patricia Gherovici as the Lacanian, Leon Hoffman as the Paul Gray Freudian, Evan Malater as the Bionian, Bruce Reis as the Winnicottian, Doris Silverman as the Laplanchian, Neal Vorus as the Kleinian.
When one begins with Mrs. C, one has to imagine the living, speaking, embodied patient-analyst dyad, visiting one another five days a week for six years, her having a baby, leaving treatment, coming back, those accumulating and culminating August vacations, her struggle with marriage, her sex life, her family and even neighbors, as well as her career; all marked by the expectations of a well-to-do conventional marriage in the 1970s. The doctor is a young, promising, male psychoanalyst in the echelons of a mid-century Manhattan psychoanalytic scene, supervised by a very famous psychoanalyst, together undertaking this impossible project in an already impossible profession. These lives and what