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Dr. Jacob Arlow died peacefully in his sleep on May 21, 2004, at the age of ninety-one. He had been gradually failing for months from prostate cancer and progressive myocardial disease. Fortunately, he was without pain during his last illness and lucid to the very end.
Dr. Arlow's psychoanalytic career spanned more than half a century. During that time, he was active in every branch of the profession and an outstanding figure in all. He contributed more than 100 articles to the psychoanalytic literature, as well as a highly regarded book of which he was coauthor, Psychoanalytic Concepts and the Structural Theory. The book remained in print for more than thirty years as the definitive exposition of the distinctions between the structural and topographic theories of Freud and of the reasons for preferring the former to the latter. His papers on unconscious fantasy and on empathy, the latter with David Beres, were also extremely influential in shaping the clinical thinking of many analysts. In addition, he made important contributions in the field of applied psychoanalysis, among which his piece on the ritual of bar mitzvah deserves special mention.
As a teacher, Dr. Arlow was highly regarded and in great demand throughout the world. While still a young man, he was appointed Turner professor at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He taught for many years at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, where he was first a student, and then a member, a training and supervising analyst, a member of the Educational Committee, and from 1966 to 1968, he served as its president. His supervisees were legion. He also served for several