Editorial

In closing a year of challenging work, I thought it fitting to devote a part of this last number of the Rivista to a subject which entails specifics of our editorial work and, at the same time, is of great interest to all of our readers: Writing Psychoanalysis. This features five articles that address various aspects of the problem from the point of view of the readers and of the editors of the Rivista.

There is a story behind these articles on writing psychoanalysis: it is the story of our working group and of our need to reflect upon our work and on the reasons for publishing a psychoanalytic journal. But there is also the history of the psychoanalytic movement whose most prestigious exponents - starting with Freud - have often addressed the necessity and difficulty of writing psychoanalysis. In the course of this year's activities a one-day workshop was dedicated to this topic. The report of the workshop is included here, along with the papers presented. These articles attempt to explore from within - as befitts psychoanalysts - the problems and implications of writing psychoanalysis: from within the work of publishing a journal, from within each one of us, and from within the role held In publishing these reflections we make an attempt to communicate the meaning of our work to our readers, as well as the meaning that their work - when it comes to us in the form of a manuscript - holds for us.

Every piece of writing we receive is not only psychoanalytic writing, presented in a clinical, theoretical, technical, or applied form; it is also, and first of all, an attempt to write psychoanalysis. We must take this breadth into due consideration with each individual text we read Every manuscript we receive undergoes an editorial procedure: it is sent under anonymous cover to two readers and, when their likewise anonymous critiques are sent back, the articles and the readers' critiques are handed to two editors. The latter then bring the text, along with the readers' and