Acknowledgements

I want to express my gratitude to my husband for his support and participation in the process of making this book, beyond being the co-author of one of the chapters.

I am in internal dialogue with Willy Baranger, José Bleger, David Liberman, Jorge Mom and Enrique Pichon-Rivière who generously transmitted a way of thinking psychoanalytically; with Guillermo Maci who gave me an approach for reading Freud; with André Green from whose knowledge and exceptional clinical skill I benefit; with Piera Aulagnier, Jean Laplanche and Serge Leclaire with whom I had the privilege of following seminars. Listening to Bion has been decisive.

My debt to Joyce McDougall is special; she always generously encouraged me to write and to publish and gave me her time for reading and offering suggestions for many of my papers.

I am indebted to my editor Dana Birksted-Breen for her intelligent dialogue, patience and support. Michael Fineberg was always there to find the English word that would best represent my thinking. To our son, Eduardo, all my gratitude for his help.

The discussion of my work with colleagues from analytic groups belonging to different traditions has been a source of inspiration, as has the annual FrenchBritish clinical meeting that Anne-Marie Sandler and I have co-chaired since 1993.

I thank Dunod for allowing me by contract to keep all the rights for the papers included in La Transmission Psychique entre Générations; and International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, La Revue Française de Psychanalyse, the Monographies de la Revue Française de Psychanalyse, Presses Universitaires de France and Revista de Psicoanálisis for their permission to reproduce the following: Chapter 1,‘The telescoping of generations: A genealogy of alienated identifications ’, was first published in Spanish in Revista de Psicoanálisis, 42: 1042-56 , under the title ‘El telescopaje de

generaciones: Genealogía de ciertas identificaciones’; and in English in Contemporary Psychoa