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Likely you’ve noticed that Dialogues has a new look. Beginning with our last issue, the journal adopted a new graphic layout and proof style. The pages look different in print, not quite as much online. In the words of our publisher, the change was made to accommodate “the way search engines navigate content and as a way to make the most of the technological improvements in the proofing process.” We were persuaded to adopt the new style for reasons that seem pertinent to our overall mission. Change will do us good. Holding on to the way things have always been is an enactment that this journal cannot afford to abide.
Indeed, it’s time for a fresh look at the confines and limits of psychoanalysis. These days, many more readers access Dialogues online than in print. Last year, Dialogues logged 52,000 online readers and 47,000 downloads. If psychoanalysis is to offer its words to a broader, more diverse audience, and to readers who do not and, perhaps, cannot afford to subscribe to the journal in print, enhanced online search afforded by this format is a necessary tool to foster change and growth. An eco-conscious reader among us will add that the planet will be all the happier for it.
With that in mind, we are proud to present a suite of papers and discussions that, each in their own way, takes a fresh look at psychoanalysis, threading a path between continuity and change.
Katie Gentile’s highly original article highlights an approach that our editorial group is excited to advance. Deftly integrating contemporary theories of posthumanism and Indigenous Studies, interwoven with a moving clinical vignette, Gentile challenges us to rethink the boundaries of the human and nonhuman, prompting us to examine assumptions about race, the environment, the ordering of time and place in relations of tensegrity, and what counts as care when we frame clinical objectives. In her discussion, Patricia Clough bolsters the bridge Gentile builds between psychoanalysis and the new materialis