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Translation into English by Andrew Weller.
List of contents
Part One: The Modernity of Sándor Ferenczi Chapter One The Modernity of Sándor Ferenczi Chapter Two A life inscribed in the crucible of the history of the psychoanalytic movement Part Two: The Work Chapter Three Presentation Chapter Four "Introjection and transference" (1909a): the master stroke Chapter Five "A little chanticleer" (1913a) Chapter Six Thalassa. A Theory of Genitality. (1924a). Chapter Seven The technical innovations" (1918-1933) Chapter Eight The concept of the "wise baby" (1924-1932) Chapter Nine The Clinical Diary (January-October, 1932) Chapter Ten The heritage of Ferenczi’s advances at the theoretical level Part Three: Choice of texts "Transference and introjection" (1909a) "On obscene words (contribution to the psychology of the latency period)" (1910a) "Interchange of affect in dreams" (1916/1917) "The further development of the "active therapy" in psycho-analysis (1920) "The dream of the ‘wise’ baby" (1923a) Thalassa, a Theory of Genitality (1924a) "Contra-indications to the ‘active’ psycho-analytical technique" (1926a) "The elasticity of psycho-analytic technique" (1928a) "The principle of relaxation and neocatharsis" (1930a) "Confusion of tongues between adults and the child" (1933a) Afterword by Robert Bartlett, Adrienne Harris, and Lauren Levine
About the author
Thierry Bokanowski is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is currently a training and supervising analyst at the Paris Psychoanalytical Society (SPP). He has published articles across a range of different journals including the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and has participated in numerous collective works on psychoanalysis in both French and English.
Summary
The Modernity of Sándor Ferenczi provides a concise yet thorough overview of the life and work of Sandor Ferenczi. It seeks to help make his thought and work better known, as a controversial pioneering psychoanalyst whose importance to psychoanalysis has sometimes been wrongfully neglected and relegated to backstage.
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"Bokanowski’s book is an important contribution for it shows in a rigorous way how Ferenczi’s ideas are essential in our daily clinical work today. It is a poignant book, which explores the vivid dimension of love and hate between Freud and Ferenczi whose drama was to have been far in advance of his time. He underlined the distinctions between traumas and offered a metapsychological understanding of early ego-splitting, including the splitting between soul and body. As a psychosomatician, I would say that he should be seen as the Grandfather of modern post Freudian psychosomatics and especially the Paris School. Through a living and embodied style of writing, Bokanowski shows that it was their respective views of the countertransference more than anything else that separated the paths of these two giants of psychoanalysis."-Marilia Aisenstein, Training Analyst, Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society and Paris Psychoanalytical Society.
