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Introduction to Michel De M’uzan’s “Slaves of Quantity”

French psychoanalysis is increasingly recognized as having a distinct voice in a developing dialogue with Anglo-American psychoanalysis (Kernberg 200I). However, difficulties of translation, both linguistic and cultural, have impaired this dialogue. In proposing to Michel de M'Uzan that I translate "Slaves of Quantity" for its first publication in English, it was my hope that his paper would contribute to that dialogue, with this introduction acting as a kind of passerelle-literally, a footbridge-a means of gaining access to the ideas within. Originally published as "Les esclaves de la quantite," the paper illustrates an innovative style of thinking in which de M'Uzan has rigorously developed extensions of Freud's concepts over the past forty-five years. The ideas and the style of writing may well be unfamiliar to Anglophone readers. As de M'Uzan himself (2002) put it recently: