Building Bridges

I have, in this collection, placed 20 of my articles that have been previously

published separately in refereed psychoanalytic journals or as chapters in psychoanalytic

books. The papers are ordered in six “Parts,” not chronologically but

according to subject matter that fits together by topic or area of interest. Each part

involves a topic that had customarily been thought of in binary terms, but may

now may now be thought of not as “either/or” theoretical and clinical issues, but

more integratively. Of utmost importance to the nature of my thinking as I put

this work together, is the fact that I had not always known that a paper developing

and arguing issues on one subject would some day turn out to be intimately and

significantly related to a paper developing and arguing issues on another subject.

It was only after the fact that I discovered the connections. But is that not

exactly how we expect our minds to preconsciously learn and then influence our

consciously grasped ideas and outcomes?