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Scientific meetings:
| 15 January | Levas Kovarskis: On human communication from a psychoanalytic perspective |
| 12 February | Vilja Hägglund: Female bodilyness |
| 26 February | Risto Palolahti: Desire |
| 12 March | Pirkko Kuula: On the psychoanalysis of a borderline patient. A case presentation |
| 26 March | Marita Torsti: The origins of the symbolising process; on an observational study of the mother-child relationship |
| 23 April | Juhani Mattila: On the origins of affect representations |
| 28 August | Terttu Eskelinen de Folch: On the manifestation of violence in hysteria |
| 10 September | Henrik Enckell: Transference, metaphor and the poetics of psychoanalysis |
| 29 September | Raija Pohjamo: A too soon born sibling. Material from a psychoanalysis and from baby observation |
| 8 October | Päivi Järvinen: The difficulty of intimacy in the analysis of a girl in latency |
| 22 October | Discussion on the topic: Why psychoanalysis is scientific. Introductions by Matti Brummer, Pirkko Niemelä and Turo Reenkola |
| 29 October | Jack and Kerry Kelly Novick: Soul blindness |
| 5 November | Heikki Piha: Binding auditive perception to imagery |
| 10 November | Peter Blos: Case seminar for the child psychoanalysts |
| 19 November | Riitta Tähk Illusion and reality in the psychoanalytic relationship |
At the end of 1998, the Finnish Psychoanalytical Society comprised 71 members, and 94 associate members. There were 33 candidates in training.
A National Psychoanalytical Conference was held in Gustavelund, 31 January – 1 February. This was the second time a conference of this kind was organized. As a start-up tradition, the Society organizes a two-day conference every second year, and a one-day “Winter Day” in the intervening years.
This time, the theme was “Phallicism and the Oedipus complex”. There were two plenary presentations. Pentti Ikonen talked about “From oedipal