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In October 1956, Jacob Arlow strode briskly into our makeshift classroom at Kings County Hospital to introduce us to our very first seminars in psychoanalysis: The Interpretation of Dreams, chapters 1 through 6, was interwoven as a companion text to the History of Psychoanalysis. The latter began with the major scientific and biographical influences on Freud's thinking that formed the context for the birth of a psychoanalytic theory of the mind. In this course, we worked our way through the major texts of the early years and concluded with an examination of the papers on meta-psychology.
There were five of us, three from Brooklyn and two commuters from Rochester. Chalk in hand, Jack paced about, writing key words and phrases on a blackboard for emphasis—words like psychic determinism. And he'd jot down small samples of clinical data, indicating associated ideas by arrows. His bubbling store of energy, his contagious enthusiasm for the material, drew us in. His lucidity as he articulated a logically unfolding story of how Freud's