The latest issue of Psychoanalytic Dialogues opens with an editorial introduction (open access) by Stephen Hartman, Lauren Levine, Amy Schwartz Cooney, and Jack Foehl. This issue features the Lewis Aron Prize section (open access), dedicated to exploring psychoanalysis in dialogue with grief, social ethics, and transformation. Rachel Karliner’s article, Meeting in the In-Between: Grief, Immobility, and Transformation, examines how grief shapes psychic immobility and change. Elise Geltman’s Who is Free to Free Associate: Psychoanalysis and Social Ethics interrogates the social conditions that enable or constrain psychoanalytic free association. A notable contribution is Lewis Aron’s Last Lectures: Jung and Contemporary Psychoanalysis, where Lewis Aron, alongside Zane Dodd and Galit Atlas, explores the intersections of Jungian thought and contemporary relational psychoanalysis.
The issue also includes a panel discussion centered on Stephen Seligman’s Holding and Containing: “The Metaphor of the Baby” in Winnicott, Bion, and Klein, with responses from Denis Flynn and Lesley Caldwell, followed by Seligman’s reply, Toward an Inclusive Spirit, clarifying his theoretical alignments and divergences.
The dialogue section features a discussion between Orna Guralnik and Christine Harb. Jessica Benjamin introduces their exchange in Talking in a Time of Violent Destruction (open access), setting the stage for “Many People Would Throw a Tantrum at This Point”, where Guralnik and Harb, an Israeli and a Palestinian, navigate the aftermath of October 7th, the crisis in Gaza, and the psychological underpinnings of conflict and potential reconciliation.
See the full contents of the issue, here.