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Were this issue of Psychoanalytic Dialogues being presented live or as a podcast, one thing would stand out immediately: It speaks to the array of psychoanalytic perspectives on topics as foundational as early experience in the human body and as contemporary as the way social rhythms blend recursively into the story of psychic life in a wealth of accents. Relational psychoanalysis is indeed polyglot. Inspired by Gila Ashtor’s inquiry into the problem of “pseudo self” experience, Tara Chivukula’s linguistic trips across continents and in the consulting room, and Ricardo Lombardi’s continuing investigation of body/mind dynamics, this issue is an aural treat.
Everyone has an accent of some sort. So, we leave it to you to hear the voices of our authors and discussants each in the integrity of their idiomatic manner of speech, in their cultural and theoretical surround, and in the various combinations of accents that manifest in how they sound in dialogue. This issue is not shy. Translation among comparative points of view among diverse speakers from different disciplines, backgrounds, and geographic centers of psychoanalytic thought inevitably prompts a great deal of affect. Dialogues is committed to hearing every author and discussant’s manner of formulating their ideas and to our shared discipline, just as we invite conversations that shake it up! This, to our ear, is the recipe for a healthy, comparative, and pluralistic psychoanalysis.
También notarás que el idioma español se ha convertido en un elemento habitual en nuestras páginas. You’ll also notice that Spanish has become a regular feature in our pages. Thanks to the IARPP, Dialogues has inspired great interest in Latin America, and we have begun to receive wonderful submissions in Spanish. We welcome this. Inviting discussants and authors of Snapshots and Après Coups essays to write in their native tongue has been a boon to our outreach to Latin America where English is not as often the lingua franca that it is i