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As we come to the end of the issue, it is important to remind ourselves that it is in the spirit of open-ended creative inquiry of the psychoanalytic interpretation, as well as in the context of this publication, that the dialectics of endings and beginings unfold: Each ending contains a potential for a new beginning.
Inherently, people of any age and circumstance engage perpetually in interpreting. It is via ubiquitous process of multiply interpreting ourselves within ourselves and with (and sometimes without) others, that we survive, adapt, and create. Creative interpretation and insight of the founder of psychoanalysis marked the birth of the field. Today, the multiple dimensions of the interpretative process, as presented on the preceding pages, may be an exploratory meeting place of a rich dialogue not only between two participants of the psychoanalytic inquiry in clinical situation, but also an exploratory meeting place of the various schools of thought and research. Through the ongoing study of various dimensions and processes participating in the interpretation, the sometimes disconnected plurality of parent theories may be thus transformed into a generation of hybrid internally connectable (interpenetratable) interpretative approaches of a wide open arsenal, to effect a continuous process of creative recovery of disconnected disparities, within our patients, within our theories and within ourselves.
As a guest editor, I express gratitude to the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Joseph Lichtenberg, for his inspirational vision for this issue and making the journal of Psychoanalytic Inquiry available as a forum for the fruitful international exchange of views on the subject of interpretation. My heartfelt thanks are also to the Associate Editor, Dr. Carol Levin, for her logistical support with a human touch and many words of encouragement throughout the process of the creation of this special issue. Additionally, I would never be able to accomplish all of the ad hoc transla