Ferenczi's Turn in Psychoanalysis / / Peter L. Rudnytsky, Antal Bokay, Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch.

• HerausgeberIn: Bokay, Antal,; Giampieri-Deutsch, Patrizia,; Rudnytsky, Peter L.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1996]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Sigmund Freud's role in the history and development of psychoanalysis continues to be the standard by which others are judged. One of the most remarkable features of that history, however, is the exceptional caliber of the men and women Freud attracted as disciples and coworkers. One of the most influential, and perhaps overlooked, of them was the Hungarian analyst Sndor Ferenczi. Apart from Freud, Ferenczi is the analyst from that pioneering generation who addresses most immediately the concerns of contemporary psychoanalysts. In Ferenczi's Turn in Psychoanalysis fifteen eminent scholars and clinicians from six different countries provide a comprehensive and rigorous examination of Ferenczi's legacy. Although the contributors concur in their assessment of Ferenczi's stature, they often disagree in their judgments about his views and his place in the history of psychoanalysis. For some, he is a radically iconoclastic figure, whose greatest contributions lie in his challenge to Freudian orthodoxy; for others, he is ultimately a classical analyst, who built on Freud's foundations. Divided into three sections, Contexts and Continuities, Disciple and Dissident, and Theory and Technique, the essays in Ferenczi's Turn in Psychoanalysis invite the reader to take part in a dialogue, in which the questions are many and the answers open-ended.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Introduction: Ferenczi's Turn in Psychoanalysis -- One. Freud and His Intellectual Environment: The Case of Sandor Ferenczi -- Two. The Founding of the Budapest School -- Three. The Budapest School of Psychoanalysis -- Four. O, Patria Mia -- Five. Ferenczi's Early Impact on Washington, D.C. -- Six. Asymmetry and Mutuality in the Analytic Relationship: Contemporary Lessons from the Freud-Ferenczi Dialogue -- Seven. Sandor Ferenczi: Negative Transference and Transference Depression -- Eight. The Tragic Encounter between Freud and Ferenczi and Its Impact on the History of Psychoanalysis -- Nine Ferenczi s Mother Tongue -- Ten. Mutual Analysis: A Logical Outcome of Sandor Ferenczi' s Experiments in Psychoanalysis -- Eleven. Hermann's Concept of Clinging in Light of Modern Drive Theory -- Twelve. Castration and Narcissism in Ferenczi -- Thirteen. The Influence of Ferenczi's Ideas on Contemporary Standard Technique -- Fourteen A New World Symphony: Ferenczi and the Integration of Nonpsychoanalytic Techniques into Psychoanalytic Practice -- Fifteen. The "Wise Baby" Grows Up: The Contemporary Relevance of Sandor Ferenczi -- INDEX