ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author spent his first year of graduate work at the University of Chicago in 1958–59, and it was at a wedding of a classmate and close friend of him there in the early 1960s that he happened to meet a famous Chicago psychoanalyst, Gerhart Piers. Although when the author first saw Edoardo Weiss he technically knew of his early association with Trieste, in the author's American mind then he was mainly closely associated with Italy and Chicago. Franz Alexander, who had once been the Hungarian-born prodigy of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Society’s Training Institute, became the central figure who created psychoanalysis in Chicago and a key contact Weiss relied on to get him established in the New World. Alexander had been the inspiring leader of Chicago’s analysts since becoming the first visiting professor of psychoanalysis at the University of Chicago in 1930.
