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Issue Number 4 of the 100th Anniversary Series of The Psychoanalytic Review begins with Martin A. Schulman's rich reflections on his editorship from 1989 to 2004, followed by original papers by Arnold Modell, “Some Comments on the Freudian Unconscious,” and Gerald Gargiulo, “Some Thoughts About Consciousness—From a Quantum Mechanics Perspective,” which attempt to extend the basic psychoanalytic concepts of unconsciousness and consciousness in light of models of other sciences, particularly neuroscience and quantum physics. The use of models from other sciences to facilitate psychoanalytic theorizing has been a precedent since Freud. In fact, early expositions on the conceptual dilemmas of the unconscious mind by William Alanson White, published in the Review in 1915 and 1930 and republished in Volume 100, Issue Number 1, allude to models from many sciences, including the first versions of quantum theory.

The theoretical complexity of the consciousness-unconsciousness conceptualization emphasized in both of these papers has been accentuated by the recognition that in the conscious waking state, primary process mentation is commonly intermixed and coordinated with secondary process in the service of reality adaptation and creativity. To arrive at a better understanding of this view, Pinchas Noy delineated and applied it in a 1968 paper in the Review, “A Theory of Art and Aesthetic Experience,” republished in this issue. Further, the reader may find allusions to the integration of primary process with secondary process mentation in a paper by Hyman Spotnitz, “The Maturational Interpretation,” published in the Review in 1966 and republished in this issue.

These papers are complemented by a comprehensive essay by Tony Pipolo on the Italian classic film Edipo Re (director, Pier Paolo Pasolini; ), from Sophocles' play, Oedipus Rex; the dynamic force and timeless aesthetic appeal of the original play was also singled out in the above-mentioned paper by Noy.