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Paul Roazen passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on November 3, 2005, in his home, in Cambridge, MA aged 69. He was born in Boston on August 14, 1936 and was the author of twenty-two books and hundreds of articles, reviews, and essays. As did many of his friends, I learned about his death in an email from his sons Jules and Daniel, who later set up an Internet page, roazen.net, with the obituaries published by various American and European newspapers—and a CV running to thirty-seven pages! All writers (among them Elisabeth Roudinesco in the Parisian Le Monde) agree on the fundamental role Roazen played in giving the history of psychoanalysis the status and dignity of an autonomous academic discipline.
This is also the lesson I learned from him, as I had already had the chance to show in my review of his 1995 book How Freud Worked. First-Hand Accounts of Patients, published in volume 5 of this journal. I first met Roazen at the first meeting of the International Association for the History of Psychoanalysis (founded by Alain de Mijolla in ), in which I participated, in July 1990 in London. We both always attended such meetings, right up to the most recent, held in Paris in July 2004—the last time I saw him. Together with Marco Bacciagaluppi and Carlo Bonomi, we contributed a chapter to the book edited by Todd Dufresne in 1997 for his retirement in 1996 from York University (Toronto, Canada)—Freud under Analysis. Essays in Honor of Paul Roazen. Roazen's frequent visits to Italy (where altogether six of his books have been published) also allowed him to write a new introduction to the second Italian edition of Freud and his Followers (his third book, 1975, which was translated into seven languages). He liked Italy very much, and his sons Jules and Daniel are both very familiar with Italian culture.
With Roazen, we used to talk not only about American psychoanalysis, but also about Edoardo Weiss (, to ), the first Italian psychoanalyst, since he had met and