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This quantity honors Sandor Ferenczi, a primary personality within the beginning of psychoanalysis, whose hot and passionate character, rules, and teachings permeate his global and his paintings, shaping psychoanalytical contemplating generations.

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I related earlier psychological experiments of mine on choice processes. When speaking of edge reactions and centre reactions and saying that, in principle, adults would also opt for the same choice as six- or seven-year-old children, he became excited and exclaimed, “. . ) a line from Goethe’s Faust. This strange, appropriate, though, at first hearing, not quite fitting comment, confused me; I should have known at the time that what he wanted was to express his sympathy with me. Later, I myself heard Ferenczi say that when a colleague approached him with a patient’s problem he was often overwhelmed by the feeling that it would be best if the patient were transferred to him.

From Ernest Jones, it is but a short step to John Rickman (1880–1951), both having been eminent Presidents of the British Psychoanalytical Society (Jones 1919–1944, Rickman 1947–1950). They had both been in analysis with Ferenczi in Budapest (Jones in 1913, Rickman between 1928 and 1930), but, unlike Jones, there has never been a question mark over Rickman’s genuine friendship with Ferenczi, or his standing as a supportive colleague and follower. Rickman’s background John Rickman and family around the time he was in Budapest.

Freud belongs to the classical type of investigator. His “Interpretation of Dreams” is the result of an already crystallized and accomplished FERENCZI REMEMBERED 21 achievement, worked out to the smallest detail. Searching and striving after truth is hardly discernable any more. Ferenczi’s work leads us through every perplexity of the seeker for truth, through every hope and disappointment. Each subsequent paper is a just but strict and incorruptible criticism of the former. Ferenczi’s work remained unfinished.

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