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A crucial element and challenge of the psychoanalytic perspective developed and articulated in this journal since its foundation by Jan Stensson (1935–2024; see also Sjödin, 2024) in 1992 is its interdisciplinary character. Psychoanalysis can survive as a specific form of therapy only if we keep cultivating, revisiting, and modifying the reconstruction of its history, its theoretical structure, and its clinical application. This is what we also do in this Issue, putting together in it important contributions covering many of the aspects belonging to our concept of psychoanalysis.
Carlo Bonomi has been a member of the editorial board of our journal since the late 1990s, and his collaboration with it has also become an important aspect of the evolution of his work. A first example is the anthology Behind the Scenes: Freud in Correspondence, which he edited with Patrick Mahony and Jan Stensson in 1997. Since the 1994 publication of his ground-breaking paper “Why Have We Ignored Freud the Pediatrician?,” he has been working on the development of a new theory on the origins of psychoanalysis. He fully articulated this in his 2023 book A Brief Apocalyptic History of Psychoanalysis. Erasing Trauma, and he describes the complex research itinerary behind it in the first contribution of this Issue, “Rethinking the Birth of Psychoanalysis: Disconnection, Censorship, and Self-censorship.”
In other words, Bonomi’s own research work has now come so far as to enable him to overcome the self-censorship and institutional censorship that had for many years made it impossible to connect with each other the following facts, already known for many years. First, masturbation was viewed as a great medical problem in the second half of the nineteenth century, for which female circumcision had become a very widespread form of therapy. Second, Freud’s key patient at the turn of the century, Emma Eckstein , was circumcised as a child, and third, Freud himself decided to avoid having his own thr