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Sándor Ferenczi Today: Reviving the Broken Dialectic

Sándor Ferenczi Today: Reviving the Broken Dialectic The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 59, No. 4, 1999 SANDOR FERENCZI TODAY: REVIVING THE BROKEN DIALECTIC Emanuel Berman Axel Hoffer suggested, in 1993: "If Sigmund Freud was the father of psychoanalysis, Sandor Ferenczi was the mother . . . psychoanalysis lost its mother . . . [and] thus became a one-parent child" (Hoffer, in Aron and Harris, 1993, p. 75). When I first quoted this moving metaphor, I felt obliged to add: "Now, it seems, mother is back for good" (Berman, 1996, p. 410). Indeed, for a long time we have become accustomed to viewing psycho- analysis, and with it psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy, as a sin- gle-parent family. Believing that we all sprang out of Freud's head, as Athena sprang out of the head of Zeus (an early pre-Christian version of immaculate conception), made many of our present concerns, ideas, and methods appear bastardly, rootless, representing mostly a negation. This view allowed orthodox authors to describe any trends that differed with Freud's views as "deviations" (Berman, 1997a). On the other hand, if we reclaim Sandor Ferenczi as our missing "other voice," we can experience psychoanalytic thought and treatment as evolv- ing out of the dialogue of two voices; http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

Sándor Ferenczi Today: Reviving the Broken Dialectic

Berman, Emanuel
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 59 (4) – Oct 14, 2004
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 1999 by Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
Subject
Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
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0002-9548
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1573-6741
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10.1023/A:1023443723819
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 59, No. 4, 1999 SANDOR FERENCZI TODAY: REVIVING THE BROKEN DIALECTIC Emanuel Berman Axel Hoffer suggested, in 1993: "If Sigmund Freud was the father of psychoanalysis, Sandor Ferenczi was the mother . . . psychoanalysis lost its mother . . . [and] thus became a one-parent child" (Hoffer, in Aron and Harris, 1993, p. 75). When I first quoted this moving metaphor, I felt obliged to add: "Now, it seems, mother is back for good" (Berman, 1996, p. 410). Indeed, for a long time we have become accustomed to viewing psycho- analysis, and with it psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy, as a sin- gle-parent family. Believing that we all sprang out of Freud's head, as Athena sprang out of the head of Zeus (an early pre-Christian version of immaculate conception), made many of our present concerns, ideas, and methods appear bastardly, rootless, representing mostly a negation. This view allowed orthodox authors to describe any trends that differed with Freud's views as "deviations" (Berman, 1997a). On the other hand, if we reclaim Sandor Ferenczi as our missing "other voice," we can experience psychoanalytic thought and treatment as evolv- ing out of the dialogue of two voices;

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