Ferenczi for Our Time

by Szekacs-Weisz, Judit; Keve, Tom

• ISBN13: 9781780490403
• ISBN10: 1780490402
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-11-30
• Publisher: Karnac Books

Summary

Ferenczi for Our Timepresents contributions from British, French, American and Hungarian analysts of the second, third and even fourth generation, who deal with different dimensions of experiencing the external and internal world. These papers explore linkages between Ferenczi and the works of Winnicott, Klein, Alice, Michael and Enid Balint, the British Independents as well, as French analytical thought related to Dolto and beyond. The reader will also become acquainted with original documents of a revived Hungarian psychoanalytical world and new voices of Budapest. 'The Balints' chapter invites the reader to listen to colleagues sharing memories, recollections and images--allowing a personal glimpse into the life and professional-human environment of these extraordinary personalities. The topics discussed here are wide ranging: possibilities and impossibilities of elaborating social and individual traumata, child analysis and development, body-and-mind and clinical aspects of working with psychosomatic diseases. Functions and dysfunctions of societal and individual memory are explored as signifying 'blinded' spots in our vision of external and psychic reality as well as the vicissitudes of generational transmission of trauma. The scope of these papers covers methodology, theory and clinical practice.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
About the Editors and Contributors	p. x
Series Editor's Foreword	p. xvi
Preface	p. xxi
Instead of an Introduction: Intimacy and Trauma	p. xxiv
Melanie Klein and Sandor Ferenczi
From patient to founder of a psychoanalytic school: Ferenczi's influence on the works of Melanie Klein	p. 3
The "here-and-now" in Ferenczi's thinking and its influence on Melanie Klein	p. 19
From Ferenczi to Winnicott and Dolto
Early emotional development: Ferenczi to Winnicott	p. 29
"Thalassa to the ocean": from Sandor Ferenczi to Françoise Dolto	p. 43
The Balints-Memories, Personal Recollections and Images from London, Paris, and Budapest
Michael Balint	p. 59
The Balints and Mészáros Street 12, Budapest	p. 65
Alice Balint, a Short but productive life	p. 69
Thrills and progression: Hillary, a philobat on Mount Everest	p. 77
The Enid files	p. 91
Closer to Our Time
Survival strategies: a psychoanalytic view	p. 103
"In more favourable circumstances": ambassadors of the wound	p. 117
Close to the Body
Psychosomatics and technique	p. 149
Close to the body: an analyst's daily work with cancer patients	p. 159
"Poor Konrad": the body and the soul seekers	p. 167
Index	p. 181
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