The mission of the quarterly is to promote the development of psychoanalytic knowledge in all areas of its possible application, to create an open creative platform for the meeting of Russian and foreign psychoanalysts, psychoanalytically oriented specialists and researchers from various clinical and applied communities and universities.

The main goals of the quarterly:

- integration of russian scientific, clinical and applied psychoanalytic researches on the basis of the Journal;

- acquaintance of readers with key foreign publications in clinical and applied psychoanalysis;

- creation of a publication interdisciplinary space that allows psychoanalysts to interact with representatives of other sciences;

- support for scientific theoretical and empirical research in clinical and applied psychoanalysis;

- promoting the integration of modern russian psychoanalysis into the broader context of world psychoanalytic theory and practice;

- opening of new directions in the debatable psychoanalytic field;

- acquaintance with the latest trends in russian and world psychoanalytic practice.