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Last July, at the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) Congress in Berlin, the International Council of Editors of Psychoanalytic Journals held a meeting chaired by Werner Bohleber, at which Patrizio Campanile, the editor of the Italian Rivista di psicoanalisi, the journal of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (Società Psicoanalitica Italiana; SPI), distributed to us all (about 30 editors and/or members of the editorial boards of psychoanalytic journals) the first volume of The Italian psychoanalytic annual . In it are collected some of the best papers published in the Rivista during 2006, around the theme selected by the editorial board of Freud's 150th anniversary.
It is for this reason that the first volume of the Annual, “published to bolster the presence of Italian psychoanalysis in the international psychoanalytic panorama,” not only bears the title “Freud after all,” but is also “somewhat unrepresentative” of its “polyphonic nature,” i.e. “the variety of tones which characterize it” (as we can read in the one-page preface). To such variety contributes not only “the habit of setting up meetings with psychoanalysts from different countries,” but also the polycentric organization of the Society. Its 10 Psychoanalytic Centers (Turin, Genua, Milan, Padua, Bologna, Florence, Rome One and Two, Naples, and Palermo) are distributed over the whole country, have an autonomous and intense scientific activity, and follow the habit of “frequent and systematic exchanges” between each other. These are the sources of what the editors of the volume call the resulting “harmonization of the multiplicity of voices” characterizing the scientific production and professional debate taking place inside the Italian Society.
In fact, the Rivista itself has a history of more than 50 years, which I will briefly deal with before turning to a presentation of the 12 papers, and their authors, of Freud after all. Last but not least, let us not forget that the creation of the Annual