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We are most pleased to present the Arlow symposium on the Clinical Value of Unconscious Fantasy.
Unconscious fantasy plays a major part in each analysis and perhaps, as Dr. Horowitz points out below, in the lives of each of us. In Dr. Horowitz's felicitous phrase, it is our “psychological fingerprint.”
Dr. Arlow participated actively in the symposium, not only responding to the formal presentations, but supervising a segment of an analysis by Dr. Henry Smith.
We present in this issue the morning session of the Symposium. In a future issue, devoted to the topic of Psychoanalytic Clinical Education, we will continue with the complete text of the afternoon session, in which Dr. Arlow supervises Dr. Henry Smith, who was kind enough to present a case.
The Morning Symposium was introduced by Dr. Sander Abend who reported on the impact upon him as a young analyst of Dr. Arlow's work. Dr. Peter Dunn ably organized the sessions; we are