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“... personalities. Possibly the most gifted, almost definitely the most interesting of these was Sandor Ferenczi; and the publication of a clinical journal he kept during most of 1932, the year before his death, allows the public interested in such matters to assess, far better than before, the range of his professional gifts and the depth of his ...”

“... had his own psychological theories about poltergeists since interviewing his countryman, Sándor Ferenczi, a psychoanalyst and one of Freud’s original inner circle. He has a hunch that supernormal phenomena may come from within rather than from without. Fodor had investigated the case of ‘Gef, the talking mongoose’, one of the most famous stories of ...”

“... different, as rational even: dealing with the irrational but not dealing in it (‘On waking,’ Ferenczi writes mockingly to Freud, ‘one wants on no account to have thought something quite nonsensical or illogical’). It was important to Freud that psychoanalysis should not become a cult of the irrational. The unconscious may be disreputable, but the ...”

“... had never been analysed, so he went to Budapest for two months of couch-work with Sándor Ferenczi (this, Jones recorded, was the first ever training analysis). Freud wrote to Jones about Kann’s progress; one of Jones’s rare criticisms of Freud in his biography was that he was less than discreet about his patients, yet he was perhaps too ...”

“... a multitude of revolutionary trends in me’. The Habsburgs, he wrote to his colleague Sándor Ferenczi, had ‘left behind nothing but a pile of crap’. In postwar Red Vienna, Freud threw in his lot with the Social Democrats, using whatever influence he had to help politicians like Julius Tandler, the university anatomist who, as head of the Public ...”

“... to sublimate. ‘I have succeeded where the paranoiac [Fliess] fails,’ he wrote to Sándor Ferenczi in 1910. It is on Freud’s eminently self-serving interpretation of his relationship with Fliess that Ernest Jones and Ernst Kris, editor of the censored version of Freud’s letters to Fliess, relied when, at the beginning of the 1950s, they ...”

“... forgiveness within clinical treatment, and the re-enactment of trauma, as encouraged by Sándor Ferenczi, would help restore regressed individuals to their natural capacity for communion. For Suttie and other early object relationists, the social contract came from the act of breastfeeding rather than the killing of the primal father theorised by Freud in ...”

“... Unconscious. I have not discussed the last chapter of Masson’s book, which concerns the case of Sandor Ferenczi, since it raises questions distinct from those I consider most important. In 1932 Ferenczi presented a paper to the International Psychoanalytic Congress in Wiesbaden that put forward a version of Freud’s ...”

“... in the change, for it was in Budapest that Melanie was to meet Freud’s disciple and colleague, Sandor Ferenczi. In about 1914, she read Freud’s paper on dreams (‘Uber den Traum’), realised that ‘that was what I was aiming at,’ and entered into analysis with Ferenczi. She attended the Fifth Congress of the ...”

“... the Central Powers began to wane. ‘Curiously,’ he wrote to the Hungarian psychoanalyst Sandòr Ferenczi, one of his most important interlocutors, in February 1917 (when food was scarce and lack of heating froze his fingers, making anything apart from letter-writing impossible), ‘my spirits are unshaken’ – ‘proof’, he continued, of ‘how little ...”

“... to say Schreber, Freud may have been freeing himself – of his feelings toward Wilhelm Fliess, or Sandor Ferenczi, or, prophetically, Jung. He was also creating a form of thought that terminates the unhoused wanderings of paranoia as it had been thrown back and forth between the European psychiatric writers of the 19th century. European psychiatry had a ...”