You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
The first of Dr. Arlow's psychoanalytic publications appeared in 1949, just three years after his graduation from the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and he continued publishing uninterruptedly until a few years before his death in May 2004. Among his many publications were three books, the first of which was called The Legacy of Sigmund Freud. It appeared in 1956 and had an interesting history.
1956 marked the hundredth anniversary of Freud's birth. The event was the theme of the annual meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association that year. Part of the celebration was an exhibition of Freud's many publications, each opened to a suitable page and displayed in a group of glass-topped tables of the kind used by many museums and libraries. It should be remembered that this was before the publication of the Standard Edition either in German or in English, so that it was no easy matter to collect the exhibit. It was put together by Jack Arlow and Mrs. Eva Meyer, for many years the librarian of the A. A Brill Library of the New York Institute. Each item was accompanied by a typed text written by Jack, explaining the significance of that item in the development of Freud's thinking.
So successful was the exhibit in stirring the interest of those who viewed it that Jack was persuaded to publish what he had written,