ABSTRACT
In order for any young person to find his or her way to an inborn calling, it is necessary to be exposed to the right influences at critical periods in one’s formation. In the autumn semester, Dr Willard Gaylin taught the Development of Freudian Theory, while in the spring Dr Arnold Cooper lectured on the post-Freudians from Anna Freud through R. D. Laing. In the second year, Dr Cooper taught a seminar on psychoanalysis and literature, and Dr Gaylin taught a seminar on masculinity. In a history of the Psychoanalytic Studies Program at Emory, written more than ten years ago with Edward Gamarra, Robert Paul recounts how he and Dr Ralph Roughton used to speak “part jokingly and part seriously” of the desirability of “building a bridge across Clifton Road, the street that divides the Psychiatry Department and the institute from the College of Arts and Sciences”.
