When I read a book or an article, I often find myself wondering about the sort of world that gave rise to the ideas I’m enjoying. By world I don’t mean only the author’s cultural influences and affiliations, but the kind of living essence our analytic conversations bring out so well but no official interview or credo brings out well at all. This issue is an attempt to fill that gap. I asked each of the analytic authors in the pages that follow to organize a conversation with a younger analyst who knows them well – without much further direction than to think about their legacy as they talk together. My hypothesis was a vague one: simply that by talking to you the reader and to each other at the same time, we could get a sense of the living world from which the theories grew. The analysts I invited often picked conversational partners who are already well-known analysts in their own rights. Others were analysands, supervisees, colleagues or close friends. Most of the conversations took place in private. All the conversations are marked by a deep affection and repartee not possible in a conventional interview. My hope is that these transcribed conversations invite the reader into the experience of being with some wonderful psychoanalytic authors the way those who know them well experience being with them.
Daniel Goldin, MFT, Psy.D.Issue Editor
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Daniel Goldin
Daniel Goldin, MFT, Psy.D., is a training and supervising psychoanalyst practicing in South Pasadena, California. He serves as the editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry and associate editor of Psychoanalysis: Self and Context and is on the faculty of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. He has written many articles for a variety of publications.