This collection covers all the topics relevant for
understanding the importance of Sandor Ferenczi and his influence on
contemporary psychoanalysis. Pre-eminent Ferenczi scholars were solicited to
contribute succint reviews of their fields of expertise.
The book is divided in five sections. 'The
historico-biographical' describes Ferenczi's childhood and student days, his
marriage, brief analyses with Freud, his correspondences and contributions to
daily press in Budapest, list of his patients' true identities, and a paper
about his untimely death. 'The development of Ferenczi's ideas' reviews his
ideas before his first encounter with psychoanalysis, his relationship with
peers, friendship with Groddeck, emancipation from Freud, and review of the
importance of his Clinical Diary. The third section reviews
Ferenczi's clinical concepts and work: trauma, unwelcome child, wise baby,
identification with aggressor, mutual analysis, and many others. In 'Echoes',
we follow traces of Ferenczi's influence on virtually all traditions in contemporary
psychoanalysis: interpersonal, independent, Kleinian, Lacanian, relational,
etc. (amazon)
