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Jacob Arlow
Dr. Arlow was one of the most important and valuable members
of the psychoanalytic community of the United States in the
second half of the 20th century, esteemed as teacher, investigator,
scholar, and clinician. He was editor of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly
from 1972 to 1979 and president of the New York Psychoanalytic
Institute, president of the American Psychoanalytic Association,
chair of that association’s Board on Professional Standards,
and both treasurer of the International Psychoanalytic Association
and one of its vice-presidents.
He was the author of many original psychoanalytic articles and
two books. One was a work of history titled The Legacy of Sigmund
Freud (1). The other, of which Dr. Arlow was a co-author, was titled
Psychoanalytic Concepts and the Structural Theory (2). It remained
in print for more than 30 years.
Among his many contributions, Dr. Arlow advanced the view that
sensory perception is a complex phenomenon influenced both by
external sensations and by coexisting inner unconscious wishes
and fears. He made important contributions to the understanding
of empathy, to the role of the experience of déjà vu, and to the significance
of psychoanalytic understanding of the psychology of art, literature,
and religion. However, he is best known for the demonstration
of the part played by unconscious fantasies in the genesis of the
neurotic symptoms and characterological abnormalities that every
psychotherapist attempts to identify and correct.
Dr. Arlow’s colleagues and former students created a web site in his
name at http://www.psychoanalysis.net/IPPsa/Arlow/Intro. It contains
biographical information and a number of his unpublished works.
References
1. Arlow JA: The Legacy of Sigmund Freud. Meriden, Conn, International
Universities Press, 1957
2. Arlow JA, Brenner C: Psychoanalytic Concepts and the Structural
Theory. Meriden, Conn, International Universities Press, 1964
CHARLES BRENNER, M.D.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Brenner, 35 East 85th St., New York, NY 10028; eandcbrenner@rcn.com (e-mail).
Dr. Brenner
is a Life Fellow of APA.