French philosopher Jacques Derrida contributes the piece “Politics and Friendship” to the Fall issue.
In the second issue of the year, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, renowned biographer of Hannah Arendt and Anna Freud, writes on psychoanalysis and women in the essay “Profile of a Latency Woman: Development for Biographers.”
The Fall issue includes a piece on psychoanalysis and contemporary literary criticism called “The Story of a Psychoanalytic Critic” by Norman Holland, an authority on the relationship between literature and the human mind.
Peter L. Rudnytsky becomes editor. A Fulbright/Freud Society Scholar in Vienna, he is the author of Freud and Oedipus; The Psychoanalytic Vocation: Rank, Winnicott, and the Legacy of Freud; and Reading Psychoanalyis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck.
In the Fall issue, feminist sociologist and psychoanalyst Nancy Chodorow contributes a piece focused on war and its effects on childhood: “Born into a World at War: Listening for Affect and Personal Meaning.”
At the time of ongoing revelations about American use of torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, the Fall special issue focuses on the experience of imprisonment.
French psychoanalyst and writer J.B. Pontalis contributes “Notable Encounters,” a piece on his interactions with Sartre, Lacan, and Merleau-Ponty, to the Summer issue.
Louis Rose, professor of Modern European History at Otterbein University, becomes editor. His book The Freudian Calling: Early Viennese Psychoanalysis and the Pursuit of Cultural Sciencewas awarded the 1999 Austrian Cultural Institute Prize for Best Book in Austrian Studies. He is also the author of The Survival of Images: Art Historians, Psychoanalysts, and the Ancients.