The Clinical Diary of Sndor Ferenczi

About this book

In the half-century since his death the Hungarian analyst Sndor Ferenczi has amassed an influential following within the psychoanalytic community. During his lifetime Ferenczi a respected associate and intimate of Freud unleashed widely disputed ideas that influenced greatly the evolution of modern psychoanalytic technique and practice. In a sequence of short condensed entries Sndor Ferenczis Diary records self-critical reflections on conventional theory--as well as criticisms of Ferenczis own experiments with technique--and his obstinate struggle to divest himself and psychoanalysis of professional hypocrisy. From these pages emerges a hitherto unheard voice speaking to his heirs with startling candor and forceful originality--a voice that still resonates in the continuing debates over the nature of the relationship in psychoanalytic practice.