Within Time and Beyond Time

Ricardo Steiner is a member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, and the current Honorary Archivist. Amongst other distinguished contributions to psychoanalysis, he edited, together with Pearl King, 'The Freud-Klein Controversies'. His other books, ''It's a New Kind of Diaspora':Explorations in the Sociopolitical and Cultural Context of Psychoanalysis', 'Tradition, Change, Creativity: Repercussions of the New Diaspora on Aspects of British Psychoanalysis', 'Unconscious Phantasy' and 'Within Time and Beyond Time: A Festschrift for Pearl King' are also published by Karnac Books

• Introduction -- A language game -- Splits in the French psychoanalytic movement, between 1953 and 1964 -- The passion of history confronted with the failure of psychoanalytic historical thinking -- The young R. D. Laing: a personal memoir and some hypotheses -- "Et in Archivio . . . [a] Pearl": a personal appreciation of Pearl King's work as a historian and archivist of psychoanalysis -- The evolution of organizational and training procedures in psychoanalytical associations: a brief account of the unique British contribution -- Psychoanalysis-London or British? -- The Holocaust, its aftermath, and the problem of the superego -- Repetition and modification in the ageing process -- Some reflections on D. W. Winnicott's ideas -- Technical problems in the analysis of a young adult -- Further thoughts on the validation of the clinical process -- What do our terms mean? -- Love relations in later years -- Unconscious choice and responsibility: an elusive point of psychoanalytic theory -- Developmental and genetic perspectives in psychoanalysis -- Fear of death-notes on the analysis of an old man -- Male and female narcissism: a reassessment -- The unconscious: past, present, and future