This volume presents a series of papers that appeared in the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis during the 1950s. It recognizes a turning of psychoanalytic attention from the exploration of the analysand's intra-psychic experience to mapping out equally relevant psychoanalytic concerns.
The first of the new IJPA Key Papers Series: Papers from the Decades. This indispensable volume is packed with classic texts that are as relevant today as they were in the 1950s, a pivotal era in psychoanalysis. They are essential reading for anyone connected to or interested in psychoanalysis.