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Jonathan Lear (1990) wrote that Freud began a revolution that is not over yet; a revolution by creating the psychoanalytic method that revealed that psychoanalysis is actually a science of subjectivity. In this method, a patient develops the capability to take part of his mind that is being studied and use it to objectively do the studying. This discovery necessitated that feeling alive and human would have to be one of the pillars of psychoanalysis.
Winnicott's psychoanalytic thinking corresponds with this and reflects a new paradigm for psychoanalysis in concert with the epistemology of science in the 21st century, essentially the relativity of objectivity.
The five articles in this issue have a similar theme of an evolving paradigm for psychoanalysis that is implicit in Winnicott's work; the centrality of aliveness and the effect of dissociation (Goldman, this issue); the place of illusion as an integral part of an individual's appreciation of reality (Meissner, this issue); the necessity to begin with the most fundamental elements in human experience to comprehend therapeutic change (Eshel, this issue); the importance of wholeness in the fundamental approach to clinical analysis (Bornstein, this issue); and the attention to the challenges of developing with trauma as essential to understanding the analytic process (Newman, this issue).
Melvin Bornstein, M.D.
Issue Editor