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This issue of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the journal. Established in 1932 by Dorian Feigenbaum, Bertram Lewin, Frankwood Williams, and Gregory Zilboorg, its first editors, the Quarterly is the oldest independent psychoanalytic journal in continuous publication in the United States. Sigmund Freud contributed the lead article to the inaugural issue. Anna Freud was one of its contributing editors. A single copy cost 75¢, a subscription $3.00. It was self-published then, as it is today.
As the editors note in their preface to the first issue—a copy of which appears on the opposite page, signed by Freud and others on the occasion of the Quarterly's inaugural dinner—the journal was “established to fill the need for a strictly psychoanalytic organ in America.” Part of the mission was “a close collaboration with associates abroad.” In addition to Anna Freud, the cover, reproduced on the previous page, lists many other European contributing editors, including Max Eitingon, Otto Fenichel, Karen Horney, and Hanns Sachs of Berlin; Sándor Ferenczi and Géza Róheim of Budapest; Marie Bonaparte and René Laforgue of Paris; and Ruth Mack Brunswick, Helene Deutsch, Paul Federn, and Hermann Nunberg of Vienna. Notice that William Alanson White of Washington was also a contributing editor.
The spirit of ecumenism was not universally welcomed. Despite the fact that the “prime objective of the magazine” was “to stimulate American work and provide an outlet for it,” there were inevitable