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This issue of The Annual is dedicated to Samuel Lipton, who died in 1984. Affectionate, evocative eulogies by Harry Trosman and Charles Kligerman make clear the special role Lipton played within the Chicago psychoanalytic community. Utterly impatient of pomposity and fuzzy thinking, he could be relied upon to make sure that difficult, important questions were not evaded. He was one of those generous and principled, idiosyncratic curmudgeons who influence colleagues, students and patients, making a unique contribution to analysis. Psychoanalysts beyond Chicago became aware of Lipton's ideas mostly through his articles on technique, beginning with his widely read 1977 critique of the modern, expanded conception of analytic technique as compared with the one employed by Freud in the Rat Man case.
A number of the papers contained in this volume address subjects very closely related to Lipton's central concerns. 'Countertransference: its role in facilitating the use of the object', by Kenneth Newman, lays out a view of the analytic process as a series of interactions through which analyst becomes a usable object for analysand. An analysand's character pathology, comprised of obsolete and maladaptive solutions to old interpersonal dilemmas, has the effect of rendering objects, including the analyst, useless. By enduring transference/countertransference enactments, by becoming aware of unwanted feelings that have been invoked in him and actions that he has committed based on them, the analyst is able to find ways to negotiate new experiences with the analysand, allowing character to be reformed. Thus analysis produces change.
In a way, Newman's point of view is the polar opposite of Lipton's. Lipton conceptualized many of