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The preparation of a general index of the Italian psychoanalytic journal— Rivista di Psicoanalisi —is the result of an effort to make the scientific history of the Italian Society conveniently available and usable by its members.
An awareness of one's cultural heritage is not a sufficient instrument of scientific growth unless it is suitably transformed into a body of knowledge to which analysts may gain access and actually use in their own personal and professional development. The Index is a very practical asset aimed at assessing what has been done and at showing how it can be used.
There are misleading dangers both in the overestimation of one's cultural history and in the insufficient appreciation of one's scientific heritage: in both cases there may be a detrimental way of construing one's professional identity. The tendency not to use our resources may be just as blunting as a self-proclaimed, aggrandized image. A constructive awareness of both limits and resources is perhaps the best way of creating a working-group atmosphere within the international psychoanalytic community.
This general index includes the early works of the journal edited, in 1932, by Freud's disciple Edoardo Weiss. Anyone wishing to prepare a reading list on any specific problem may thus have access to several decades of psychoanalytic endeavour by looking through the chronological list of articles and the list of subjects derived from the titles of papers. This index may be of use also for those wishing to gain an idea of the development of psychoanalytic thinking in the past three decades. The journal, in fact, does not only present clinical cases and expound specific theories which are being used in coping with clinical situations. Throughout its life the journal has published debates of a deeper and broader scope, and whole issues have been devoted to such topics as, for instance, the therapeutic factors of psychoanalysis, the nature of psychoanalytic research, the relationship b