Table Of ContentCHAPTERTITLE I
FERENCZI AND HIS WORLD
The History of Psychoanalysis Series
Professor Brett Kahr and Professor Peter L. Rudnytsky (Series Editors)
Published and distributed by Karnac Books
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FERENCZI AND
HIS WORLD
Rekindling the Spirit of
the Budapest School
edited by
Judit Szekacs-Weisz
and Tom Keve
First published in 2012 by
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ix
SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD by Peter L. Rudnytsky xiii
INTRODUCTIONby Judit Szekacs-Weisz xxi
CHAPTER ONE
Ferenczi remembered 1
Tom Keve
CHAPTER TWO
Sandor Ferenczi the man 31
Imre Hermann
CHAPTER THREE
Some social and political issues related to Ferenczi 39
and the Hungarian school
Ferenc Ero(cid:1)s
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CHAPTER FOUR
Ferenczi in context 55
Edith Kurzweil
CHAPTER FIVE
Ferenczi now and then: an introduction to his world 69
André Haynal
CHAPTER SIX
Healing boredom: Ferenczi and his circle of literary friends 87
Michelle Moreau-Ricaud
CHAPTER SEVEN
Ferenczi and Ortvay: two boys from Miskolc 97
Tom Keve
CHAPTER EIGHT
Ferenczi and trauma: a perilous journey to the labyrinth 111
György Hidas
CHAPTER NINE
Regression post-Ferenczi 129
Harold Stewart
CHAPTER TEN
Imre Hermann: researching psyche and space 139
Sára Klaniczay
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Physics, metaphysics, and psychoanalysis 157
Tom Keve
INDEX 179
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
It is a pleasureto thank all the authors for their excellent and insight-
ful contributions and for their patience through the several years that
it has taken to refine this volume. The continued support and helpful,
critical comments of Professor Ferenc Ero(cid:1)s is gratefully acknow-
ledged. Mrs Anna Kovács and Ildikó Kovács aided us with research
and careful copy-editing, while Mr Mark Baczoni kindly translated
several Ferenczi obituaries from the Hungarian original for Chapter
Two. The professional and personal support of Kathleen Kelley-Lainé
over the years is also greatly valued and much appreciated by both
of us.
We thank Mr Ivan Ward for his good-natured support over
the years and for the facilities of the Freud Museum, of which we
availed ourselves. Thanks are also due to Ken Robinson and the
Archives of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Institute of Psy-
choanalysis for access and permission to reproduce correspondence
(and photographs). We are happy to thank Her Excellency, Mrs
Katalin Bogyay, Hungary’s ambassador to UNESCO, for continued
interest and support of our projects and for her belief that social
sciences and psychoanalytic ideas are a valuable part of a nation’s
culture.
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viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Last, but certainly not least, we are very pleased to acknowledge
helpful advice of our Series Editors, Professors Peter Rudnytsky and
Brett Kahr, and are grateful to them and to Mr Oliver Rathbone of
Karnac Books for inclusion in their History of Psychoanalysis series.
Judit Szekacs-Weisz and Tom Keve
Imago International, London, June 2011
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Ferenc Ero(cid:1)s (1946) studied psychology and literature at the ELTE
University in Budapest, and graduated in 1969. He obtained his PhD in
1986, and he has been Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
(DSc) since 2002. Currently, he is Professor of Social Psychology at the
Faculty of Humanities of the University of Pécs, where he has directed
a doctoral programme in psychoanalytic studies since 1997. Simul-
taneously, he directs a social psychological research unit at the
Research Institute of Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sci-
ences in Budapest. In the academic year 2010–2011, he was senior
fellow at the Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Studies. The
focus of his present research includes the social and cultural history of
psychoanalysis in Central Europe, psychoanalytic theory and its appli-
cation to social issues, the problem of trauma, and cultural memory. He
edited the Hungarian translation of the Freud–Ferenczi correspon-
dence, and he published—in collaboration with Judit Szekacs—the
correspondence between Sandor Ferenczi and Ernest Jones. He is
author of several scientific books and articles in his areas of research.
André Haynal is Honorary Professor of the University of Geneva
(Switzerland) and former Visiting Professor at Stanford University
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