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Michael Ermann’s readiness to accept my invitation to undertake the interview that opens this issue of our journal stimulated me to find a whole series of papers that could be published with it, in a third monographic issue on psychoanalysis in the German-speaking world. The first two issues I edited came out as No.4/2013 and No.2/2015.
The first of these contained the following contributions: Werner Bohleber (Frankfurt) on the history and role of the journal Psyche (1946); Harry Stroeken (Utrecht) on the fate of the German-Jewish psychoanalyst refugees in the Netherlands; Ulrike May (Berlin) on Freud’s 1920 essay “Beyond the pleasure principle”; Hans-Jürgen Wirth (Giessen) on the “militant” and “peaceful” use of nuclear power; and, last but not least, an interview I held with Horst Kächele, together with Ingrid Erhardt, in February 2013.
The second issue centered around the following authors and themes: Michael Ermann (Munich) on the history and role of the journal Forum der Psychoanalyse (1985); the Israeli colleague Ilany Kogan on her analytic work with the children of Holocaust’s survivors; Siegfried Zepf (Saarbrücken) on Freud’s concept of conversion; Michael Buchholz (Göttingen) on conflicts and their reconciliation, both in the history of psychoanalysis and in our clinical work; Horst Kächele, Ingrid Erhardt, Carolina Seybert, and Michael Buchholz on countertransference as the object of empirical research; and, last but not least, an important and still unpublished paper written by Helmut Thomä (1921-2013) in 2010 by the title “Remarks on the first century of the International Psychoanalytic Association and a utopian vision of its future”, with a short Introduction by Horst Kächele.
In my Editorials to these issues (Conci, 2013 and 2015a), I tried to introduce readers to the contemporary German psychoanalytic landscape, both in terms of how it was shaped by the only very gradual and problematic elaboration of the tragedy of the Nazi Regime (1933-1945), and in te