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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 62, No. 4, December 2002 ( 2002) Bluma Swerdloff This memoir is the result of a series of tape-recorded interviews con- ducted for the Columbia University Oral History Research Office by Dr. Bluma Swerdloff with Dr. Michael Balint in London, England, August 6–7, 1965. Dr. Balint has read the transcript, and has made only minor correc- tions and emendations. The reader is asked to bear in mind, therefore, that he is reading a transcript of the spoken rather than the written word. Bluma Swerdloff Q: Suppose we start with how you got into the field of psychoanalysis? What influences worked on you? MB: Well, you see, it’s a very long story. I read the first analytic writings, by Freud and Ferenczi, when I was still in—I don’t know what you call it in America—high school. Q: Gymnasium? MB: Gymnasium. I was always interested. But this was not in anything particular; I read everything that ever was written on painting—quite a few things, comparative religion, law, philosophy, history, archeology and heaven knows what,... Q: How did you manage to do that? What stimulated you, in your own background? MB: I think I just was
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