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With a watchful eye on Europe in crisis, Freud contrasted two collective states of mind: unbehangen, uneasiness or discontent, and the Oceanic feeling, a moment of intentense connectedness that Adam Blum describes in his paper in this issue, “the complexity of experience increases until it can no longer be apprehended purely as a succession of meaningful messages, but may be perceptible as an ocean of music, each swell of harmonic tension breaking into a wave of harmonic relief” (p. 26).
During the past year, as editors of a psychoanalytic journal, clinicians, and citizens, we too have had a watchful eye on the crises that background our efforts. It can feel quite a stretch to aim for harmonic convergence, but to our great pleasure, this past year, Dialogues has stretched, and we are grateful to our community of authors and readers, reviewers and discussants, editors and production staff who have helped Dialogues propel psychoanalysis forward. Insofar as we were able to broaden the diversity of contributors and the range of topics we cover, and highlight new formats, while also featuring papers and Credos by our mentors and challenges from first time authors, we hold great hope for a vital psychoanalysis.
Experiments with format led the way. We began Volume 32:1 presenting the edited transcript of a podcast on Reparations - a format likely to feature prominently in the future as a generation facile with technology charts the psychoanalytic airwaves. In 32:4, we took up crucial issues of psychoanalysis and climate justice in our Snapshots. In 32:5, our symposium on psychedelics and psychoanalytic treatment featured three papers that earmark aspects of psychedelic treatment that shore up relational principles. Rather than pairing these papers with discussants in our traditional mode, we had a very personal introduction that located the topic in our journal’s early history and a Coda that outlined essential areas for future research and debate. We end volume 32 surfing w