The Publications Committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association continues, with the present volume, the series “Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications”.
The aim of this series is to focus on the scientifc production of signif- cant authors whose works are outstanding contributions to the develop- ment of the psychoanalytic feld and to set out relevant ideas and themes, generated during the history of psychoanalysis, that deserve to be known and discussed by present day psychoanalysts.
The relationship between psychoanalytic ideas and their applications needs to be put forward from the perspective of theory, clinical prac- tice and research, in order to maintain their validity for contemporary psychoanalysis.