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Over the Course of A Lifetime Passionately Dedicated to Psychoanalysis, K. R. Eissler made important contributions to nearly every aspect of our field. The two papers included here, never before published, demonstrate amply the qualities that have marked his work throughout: a restless curiosity that inevitably discovers something novel in whatever it scrutinizes, and a natural profundity of perspective, informed by an immense erudition.
“Living in History and Ego Strength” is actually the first chapter of a long and fascinating manuscript on the psychology of war, based on Eissler's experiences and observations while a member of the U.S. Army during World War II. “On Hatred” is also an excerpt from a larger work, in this case a “memoir” which is not at all a memoir in the traditional sense but rather a reflective investigation of the critical aspects of individual and group psychology, with which Eissler wrestled over the course of his life.
I have reason to hope that both manuscripts from which these essays are drawn will be published in full in the not-too-distant future.
To the urgent task of collecting and making generally accessible Eissler's writings, published and unpublished, which is essential to an adequate comprehension of his ideas, I am most happily committed.