ABSTRACT
With the publication of this volume we are celebrating 100 years of Freud's manifest presence in America. It was in 1909 that Freud delivered his Clark lectures on “The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis”. While Freud's teachings had been well-known, and indeed they had led to the invitation by G. Stanley Hall, president of Clark University, these papers have marked the constant presence of his work in the United States. This past century has brought with it a marvellous history of reworking and reformulation. These modifications have reached their culmination during the second half of the 20th century, particularly in the work of those second generation analysts who embraced an object relations perspective, namely, Kohut, Balint, Winnicott, and Loewald. It is on the shoulders of these contributions that this current new 21st century contribution has been built.
