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As the IJP embarks on a new year, I would like to start by thanking the editors, reviewers and readers for making the Journal what it is – a vehicle for opening up truly international conversations about psychoanalysis today. In the last year, these conversations took place not only through the pages of the Journal, but via our International Zoom Study Meetings, with eminent analysts coming together online to think about and discuss the major issues facing psychoanalysis at present. Richard Zimmer has recently presented his paper “Post-Termination Self-Analysis and the Relinquishment of the Psychoanalytic Frame: Thoughts on a Fragment of Self-Analytic Work following a Traumatic Termination” (Zimmer 2021), discussed by Fakhry Davids and Clara Nemas, and on 8 June John Steiner will present his paper “Mourning in Hamlet: Turning Ancestral Ghosts into Ancestors” (theijp.org). The discussants will be Bruce Reis and Rachel Blass.
Through the now widespread use of Zoom, the Editors and Board Members of the Journal are now able to meet more regularly than has been historically possible. In December the IJP Board participated in our annual IJP Zoom Board Meeting, with high attendance and some very fruitful discussion. In January this year, we launched our first IJP Conference, celebrating the work of the former longstanding Editor-in-Chief, Dana Birksted-Breen. It was a marvellous event, and I would like to thank our contributors and all those who participated in making it such a rich and invigorating day. While meeting online has opened up great opportunities, meeting in person remains central to our collaborations, and so this year I am very pleased to be meeting with colleagues in New York and Florence.
Where these meetings, events and conferences have enabled us to come together as a community of readers, I am delighted that this community has grown dramatically over the last year. Now, at the start of 2024, our subscriber base for memb