A Special Volume of Modern Psychoanalysis

For the two issues of Volume 44 we present articles previously published in Modern Psychoanalysis. Each was selected by a contemporary modern analyst, a faculty member of a modern psychoanalytic institute and therefore both a practitioner and a teacher of modern psychoanalysis. We invited all members of our faculties to consider one article that has had an effect on them, that reverberates with them as they teach and as they practice. We asked also for some comments containing neither an argument for a particular point of view, nor a claim about the overriding importance of a particular concept of modern psychoanalysis; we were interested, rather, in an article that would come spontaneously to mind and would therefore have continued “speaking” to these analysts as they reflected on their lives as teachers and practitioners.

We wondered how their own practices, teaching, and personal lives had been affected, not only or necessarily at all by theory or technique but perhaps by some small, perhaps previously unnoticed thoughts that had served to tie some things together, making psychoanalysis a practice in which they could continue to grow. And so each selected article is introduced by an analyst/teacher. Since these articles have stirred the interest of these analysts and in some cases have done so over many years, we hope they might afford us a way to open up some of the