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With this issue, which is devoted to a consideration of jealousy in its many forms and manifestations, Revue Française de Psychanalyse inaugurates its fiftieth year of publication, as well as a new editorial team. The new editor in chief, Paul Denis, prefaces this issue with a brief statement commemorating the founding of Revue, and discusses its history and development since 1927. He reaffirms its role in sustaining and reflecting the development of psychoanalytic thought in all its specificity, in the face of new techniques and “mechanical” alternatives which oppose psychoanalysis so regularly. He emphasizes the irreducibility of psychoanalysis to technique or to neuroscience, whatever the advances in those fields might be. Psychoanalysis, though scientific, is first and foremost a humanistic endeavor, and finds its place in the development of the human sciences.
Monique Gibeault and Jacqueline Schaeffer introduce the topic of this issue. Use of the plural of the word jealousy is warranted, they argue, because of the multiplicity of its forms and manifestations and because of its relative neglect in psychoanalysis. Psychiatrists of the nineteenth century, on the other hand, were very much interested in it. Freud, in his discussion of jealousy in “Some Neurotic Mechanisms in Jealousy, Paranoia, and Homosexuality” (1922), described three forms of jealousy: normal, projected (involving narcissism), and delusional. Klein took up the concept and emphasized jealousy's two archaic poles, envy and greed. However, since Freud and Klein, few authors—at least in France, apart from Daniel Lagache—have dealt with the problem of jealousy, other than in discussions of jealousy as a pathological delusion. In contrast, jealousy in all its forms and in all times has been a frequent focus of myth, literature, opera, theater, and cinema.
The first article, “Freud Jealous” (pp. 11-28), is a biographical discussion of various aspects of jealousy in Freud's life, authored by Christian Jou