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I am happy to propose to our readers a fourth monographic issue of the International Forum of Psychoanalysis on the topic “German themes in psychoanalysis,” a topic whose treatment I inaugurated in 2013. That was Issue 4/2013, which contained the following authors and articles: W. Bohleber on the history and profile of the journal Psyche. Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse; H. Stroeken on the dramatic fate of German-Jewish refugee psychoanalysts in the Netherlands ; U. May on Freud’s “Beyond the pleasure principle”; H.-J. Wirth on the militant and peaceful use of nuclear power; an interview with H. Kächele conducted by me, M. Conci, together with I. Erhardt; and my report on the XVIIth IFPS Forum in Mexico City in October 2012.
In the second monographic issue, 2/2015, I was able to include the following authors and articles: M. Ermann on the history and profile of the journal Forum der Psychoanalyse; I. Kogan on psychic holes and psychic representations; S. Zepf on Freud’s concept of conversion; M. Buchholz on the concept of psychic growth as a reconciliation of conflicts; H. Kächele, I. Erhardt, C. Seybert, and M. Buchholz on countertransference as an object of empirical research ; and H. Thomä on a utopian vision of the future of the IPA.
The third part came out as Issue 1/2018 and centered around the following authors and contributions: an interview with M. Ermann made by M. Conci; H. Will on the German 50-minute hour; M. Conci on his analytic work in Munich with Italian patients; a report by L. Gast on the Berlin International Psychoanalytic University; an analysis by R. Lazar of the history of post-war German psychoanalysis; a paper by G. Hristeva and P. Bennet on W. Reich in Soviet Russia; and a review by H. Lothane of the issue of Psychoanalyse. Texte zur Sozialforschung in honor of B. Nitzschke.
Since at least the publication of Edith Kurzweil’s (1926–2016) book The Freudians. A comparative perspective (1989), we have been familiar with the complex relationship betw