After Freud: Development of Psychoanalytic Thought and Theory

Second Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2022-23, 2nd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Julie Wood, MA

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February 17, 2023 — Back to the Beginning: Freud and Ferenczi

[24 pages]

This first article (an address that Ferenczi made at the psychoanalytic congress in 1932) represents a split between Freud and Ferenczi.  The article, suppressed for years, has been framed in recent years as a portent of the more recent evolution in interpersonal and relational theories.

Ferenczi is a complicated character in the history of psychoanalysis and hasn’t always been viewed in a fair light.  Ernst Jones tried to reject his contribution outright saying Ferenczi (with whom he’d been in analysis) was mentally ill.  Maroda is both a sympathetic and critical reader, bringing a thoughtful critique to Ferenczi’s ideas.

Ferenczi, S. (1949). Confusion of the Tongues Between the Adults and the Child—(The Language of Tenderness and of Passion). Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 30:225-230.

Maroda, K. (1998). Why Mutual Analysis Failed: The Case of Ferenczi and Rn. Contemp. Psychoanal., 34(1):115-132.