Editorial

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In this issue, four original papers and two brief communications are presented. Two of the authors are from Germany, and the remaining four from Scandinavia.

BjöUrn Salomonsson opens the issue with the paper The aesthetic dimension of the psychoanalytic process in which the analytic couple/the analytic process is viewed from an aesthetic perspective - the aesthetic experience being understood as a continuous struggle to reconcile the object's outward form with its interior imagined content. BjöUrn Killingmo proceeds with A plea for affirmation. The aim of this paper is to advocate for affirmative interventions in relation to states of unmentalised affects, e.g., patients with deficient mentalisation. Tomas BöUhm follows with the article Psychoanalytic aspects on perpetrators in genocide - experiences from Rwanda. In this paper, he tries to throw light on the incomprehensible fact that ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing. The last paper, The dialectics of affective and conceptual thought, is written by the German author Philipp Soldt. His point of view is that primary and secondary process thinking never works purely within the psyche but also utilizes the other.

The two brief communications have originally been given as oral presentations. Hans Camitz presented his paper, Warding off one kind of suffering with another, at a seminar arranged by the Swedish Psychoanalytic Association to commemorate Ludvig Igra. Friedrich-Wilhelm Eickhoff gave his paper, Nachträglichkeit from the perspective of the phyl