Editorial

International Forum of Psychoanalysis is now beginning its fifth year. We owe to Jochen Kemper, Rio de Janeiro, the initiative and the efforts to get this journal started. He has also served as the Regional Editor for South America during the first years. When he now resigns from this office, I want to thank him on behalf of all us who appreciate IFP. Of course we expect to meet Jochen Kemper also in the future in articles, panels, book-reviews etc.

The new Regional Editor for South America is Elena Mendes, from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. We welcome her and look forward to many years of fruitful cooperation.

The 1996 volume promises to be a very interesting one. In the issue you are just reading you can find a varied selection of papers from different parts of the world. Christopher Bollas gives us an interesting approach to “Borderline Desire”. In his paper on Transsexualism Miguel A.G. Torres adds to the points given by Paulo Ceccarelli in issue 1995:1 on this topic. Maurizio Peciccia and Gaetano Benedetti give a very interesting presentation and discussion on “The Splitting between Separate and Symbiotic States of the Self in the Psychodynamic of Schizophrenia”. Their paper has a bearing far over and above the field of schizophrenia. Ann-Louise Silver's paper has an affinity to the one by Peciccia and Benedetti, as it is a biographical presentation of one of one of the psychoanalytic pioneers in working with psychotic patients: Frieda Fromm Reichmann. For me personally this paper was as a kind of reunion, as “Loneliness” by Frieda Fromm-Reichmann was one of the first psychoanalytic papers I read. It made a very deep impression on me and added to my wish to become a psychoanalyst. Nina Coltart writes in her review of Silver's paper: “It makes me very much wish I had met Frieda Fromm-Reichmann and had been supervised by her”. The theme of the VI Nordic Conference for IFPS members in Oslo was “Dreams and Dreaming”. Steinar Lorentzen gives a broad overview of “The psychoa