Final Contributions to the Problems and Methods of Psycho-analysis

Sandor Ferenczi (7 July 1873 - 22 May 1933) was a Hungarian psychoanalyst, a key theorist of the psychoanalytic school and a close associate of Sigmund Freud whod latter wrote that Ferenczi made "all analysts his students", a fitting tribute to a towering figure of psychoanalysis. In 1910, at Freud's suggestion, Ferenczi proposed the founding of the International Psychoanalytic Association, and in 1913 founded the Hungarian Psychoanalytic Society. In 1916 he underwent a brief personal analysis with Freud, and in 1918 was elected president of the International Psychoanalytic Society. Ferenczi's early contributions to psychoanalysis have been so fully assimilated that their origin is often forgotten, although his later writings, which were more speculative and deviated from Freudian orthodoxy, have been less widely accepted. He is acknowledged to have been a gifted therapist. He proposed a number of innovations in technique including at first these centered on the so-called "active" technique, while his later study of reactions of disappointment and mistrust that the child suffers in his relationship with his parents inspired a few of his pupils, notably Alice Balint (1949), to investigate early parent-child relationships.

• Editor’s Note , Later Papers , To Sigmund Freud on his Seventieth Birthday 1 , Freud’s Importance for the Mental Hygiene Movement 1 , Organ Neuroses and Their Treatment 1 , Present-Day Problems in Psycho-Analysis 1 , Gulliver Phantasies 1 , The Adaptation of the Family to the Child 1 , The Problem of the Termination of the Analysis 1 , The Elasticity of Psycho-Analytic Technique 1 , The Unwelcome Child and His Death Instinct 1 , The Principle of Relaxation and Neocatharsis 1 , Child Analysis in the Analysis of Adults 1 , Freud’s Influence on Medicine 1 , Confusion of Tongues between Adults and the Child 1 , Posthumous Papers , More about Homosexuality 1 , On the Interpretation of Tunes that Come Into One’s Head 1 , Laughter 1 , Mathematics 1 , On Epileptic Fits Observations and Reflections 1 , A Contribution to the Understanding of the Psychoneuroses of the Age of Involution 1 , Paranoia 1 , Notes and Fragments 1 , Papers Omitted from Previous Collections , Psycho-Analysis and Education 1 , The Effect on Women of Premature Ejaculation in Men 1 , Stimulation of the anal Erotogenic Zone as a Precipitating Factor in Paranoia 1 , On the Organization of the Psycho-Analytic Movement , Exploring the Unconscious 1 , Dirigible Dreams 1 , On the Definition of Introjegtion 1 , A Case of ‘Déjà Vu’ 1 , Varia: 1 On the Genealogy of the ‘Fig-Leaf’ , Varia: Metaphysics .. Metapsychology , Varia: Paracelsus to the Physicians , Varia: Goethe on the Reality Value of the Poet’s Fantasy , A Forerunner of Freud in the Theory of Sex 1 , Philosophy and Psycho-Analysis 1 , Interpretation of Unconscious Incestuous Fantasies from a Parapraxis (In Brantôme) 1 , Taming of a Wild Horse 1 , On the Genesis of the Jus Primae Noctis 1 , Review 1 of ‘Die Psychische Bedingheit und Psychoanalytische Behandlung Organischer Leiden’ , Review 1 of ‘Der Seelensucher’ , Discussion on Tic 1 , Psycho-Analysis and the Mental Disorders of General Paralysis of the Insane 1 , Freud’s ‘Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego’ 1 , Bibliography