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Ferenczi's Trauma Theory

Ferenczi's Trauma Theory The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 58, No. 1, 1998 Jay B. Frankel Trauma was at the heart of Sandor Ferenczi's clinical concerns. Toward the end of his life, he became convinced that trauma was an important cause of much neurotic and character pathology, despite the fact that trau- matic factors were generally neglected by other analysts (1933, p. 156).1 Ferenczi's final ideas about trauma were presented in very brief form—"a short extract" (1933, p. 156), as he said—in his final paper, "Confusion of Tongues Between Adults and the Child." He intended to expand, develop, and reevaluate these ideas (Balint, 1958), but soon after he wrote this pa- per he became too ill to do so, and after several months he died. However, Ferenczi had published other papers that dealt with trauma, notably during the First World War on "war neurosis" (1916/17), and much later in his papers on relaxation technique (1929, 1930, 1931). In his last years, he also made many notes to himself on his ideas about trauma, among other topics, which were posthumously gathered together and pub- lished in the third volume of his collected papers (1955) under the title, "Notes and Fragments" (1920 and 1930-1932). http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 1998 by Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
Subject
Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1023/A:1022522031707
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Abstract

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 58, No. 1, 1998 Jay B. Frankel Trauma was at the heart of Sandor Ferenczi's clinical concerns. Toward the end of his life, he became convinced that trauma was an important cause of much neurotic and character pathology, despite the fact that trau- matic factors were generally neglected by other analysts (1933, p. 156).1 Ferenczi's final ideas about trauma were presented in very brief form—"a short extract" (1933, p. 156), as he said—in his final paper, "Confusion of Tongues Between Adults and the Child." He intended to expand, develop, and reevaluate these ideas (Balint, 1958), but soon after he wrote this pa- per he became too ill to do so, and after several months he died. However, Ferenczi had published other papers that dealt with trauma, notably during the First World War on "war neurosis" (1916/17), and much later in his papers on relaxation technique (1929, 1930, 1931). In his last years, he also made many notes to himself on his ideas about trauma, among other topics, which were posthumously gathered together and pub- lished in the third volume of his collected papers (1955) under the title, "Notes and Fragments" (1920 and 1930-1932).

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