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In these pages . . . The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 59, No. 3, 1999 The idea for a special issue of this Journal devoted to psychoanalytic perspectives on George Eliot originated with its editor, Douglas Ingram, who, amazingly, read through all of Eliot's fiction during a year in which he was President of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and as- sumed the deanship of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis, in addi- tion to carrying out his editorial duties and engaging in a busy private practice. Once Doug discovered that I had written a book on George Eliot (Paris, 1965) and was writing on her again, we corresponded about each piece of fiction he was reading. His invitation to guest edit this issue flowed from that correspondence. Doug was profoundly impressed, as I have been for many years, by the subtlety of Eliot's characterizations and the ways in which they anticipate the insights of psychoanalysis. It has been one of my main themes as a literary critic that the great realistic writers, of whom George Eliot is one, have intuitively grasped and artistically portrayed the same kinds of phe- nomena that psychoanalytic theory has tried to explain (see Paris, 1974, 1978, 1986, 1991a, 1991b, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 1999 by Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
Subject
Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1023/A:1021453207962
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 59, No. 3, 1999 The idea for a special issue of this Journal devoted to psychoanalytic perspectives on George Eliot originated with its editor, Douglas Ingram, who, amazingly, read through all of Eliot's fiction during a year in which he was President of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and as- sumed the deanship of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis, in addi- tion to carrying out his editorial duties and engaging in a busy private practice. Once Doug discovered that I had written a book on George Eliot (Paris, 1965) and was writing on her again, we corresponded about each piece of fiction he was reading. His invitation to guest edit this issue flowed from that correspondence. Doug was profoundly impressed, as I have been for many years, by the subtlety of Eliot's characterizations and the ways in which they anticipate the insights of psychoanalysis. It has been one of my main themes as a literary critic that the great realistic writers, of whom George Eliot is one, have intuitively grasped and artistically portrayed the same kinds of phe- nomena that psychoanalytic theory has tried to explain (see Paris, 1974, 1978, 1986, 1991a, 1991b,

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