In an extended interview, Leigh Ledare speaks with Paul McCarthy on abjection, paternal scale, and the endurance of the obscene in American art—less biography than structure, less scandal than symptom. Also in this issue: Sara Lopez on Psychobiography — Diane Arbus, style read as repetition; and Vaia Tsolas on Acute Optimization Disorder, a provisional condition for those unable to stop improving themselves.

In this issue, we turn to the dream's resistance to certainty. James Hill on hesitation: when the patient's dream refuses interpretation, what does the analyst hold—or withhold? Rita Chen on the Irma dream as a scene of failed mastery rather than triumph. Also in this issue: Thomas Voss on screen memory and the invention of childhood; and Maria Santos on the couch as a space of temporal disjunction, where "then" and "now" refuse to align.

This issue examines what psychoanalysis inherits. David Keller on institutional memory in the early analytic societies: minutes, correspondence, and the silences between them. Elena Novak on Anna Freud's wartime reports from the Hampstead nurseries as documents that resist both confession and official history. Also in this issue: Peter Webb on Freud's antiquities and the logic of the collection; and Nina Okonkwo on testimony and the archive.