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As we write, colleagues from around the globe are gathering in Cartagena, Colombia, for the 53rd Congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association. Adrienne Harris, one of our esteemed editors, a feminist scholar and a founding member of the relational group is the conference chair. Psychoanalytic Dialogues will host a roundtable panel, Psychoanalytic Journals in the Line of Fire, that gathers editors, podcasters, translators, and publishers of new formats in psychoanalytic media to discuss our various approaches to the conference’s social- and eco-conscious theme.
It’s a very exciting development. The unfolding story of psychoanalysis can’t be told without reference to its ever-shifting cast of influencers. Carl Jung chaired the first IPA world congress in 1910. Sandor Ferenczi chaired the 8th IPA Congress in Salzburg in 1918. Adrienne Harris will be the first Relational IPA conference chair. Psychoanalytic Dialogues has long been a fixture at the American Psychological Association’s Division 39 conferences, and we are ever fortunate to be allied with the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Nonetheless, the “big tent” that is relational psychoanalysis emerged (as Aron and Mitchell put it) at the margins of the IPA’s hegemony.
Bland and Hoard (this issue) refer to emic approaches that study and work within a culture and etic approaches that broach cultural and psychological understanding from the outside-in. Reading Bland and Hoard, we recognize that the emic/etic distinction aptly applies to ways psychoanalysts dial into psychic life. It could be used also to describe how, among the diverse schools of psychoanalysis, we become insiders and outsiders to each other’s agenda and seldom understand each other to be working in the same “psychoanalytic” space.
Or so it might appear. Just as nachtraglichkeit and après coup bring the inside of time and outside of time together in clinical process, our manner of looking forward whil