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The two classic papers we republish in this first issue of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly for 2008, Jacob A. Arlow's “Unconscious Fantasy and Disturbances of Conscious Experience” and Ralph R. Greenson's “The Working Alliance and the Transference Neurosis” , represent the final installment in our 75th anniversary year celebration. Both were written in the 1960s, and, set against the background of the articles we have examined from preceding decades, they have a distinctive rhetorical voice. It is different from the adventurous spirit we found in Horney (1936) and Waelder (1936) from the 1930s, with Freud's voice still in the air; more closely related to—but still distinct from—the bold challenges of Deutsch (1942) and Hendrick (1942), shortly after Freud's death. Our third issue of 2007 saw Fliess (1942) and Racker (1957) breaking new ground in their exploration of the analyst's experience and the nature of the interaction with the patient; and in our fourth issue, we watched both Alexander (1950) and Loewald (1962) attempting in different ways to push American ego psychology beyond its perceived limitations.
These two papers by Arlow and Greenson represent mid-century American psychoanalysis at its most triumphant, and—more like the venture capitalist than the adventurous toddler (though with some of the characteristics of both)—they sing with confidence and certainty of their place in the world of psychoanalysis. I am grateful to both Theodore Shapiro and Arnold Cooper for their scholarly commentaries, placing Arlow and Greenson, respectively, in their