Person
Sándor Ferenczi
Hungarian analyst, Freud’s close collaborator and an innovator in technique.
Read more- Born
- 1873
- Died
- 1933
- Known for
- Influenced
collaborated with
- Ernest Jones 1912 The Committee grew out of this conversation; Jones and Ferenczi were among its founding members.
- Otto Rank 1924 Rank and Ferenczi co-wrote Entwicklungsziele der Psychoanalyse (1924), which argued for an analysis centred on present experience in the transference.
analysed
- Ernest Jones 1913 Jones described this as perhaps the first analysis an analyst undertook for his own sake, before training analysis existed.
- Melanie Klein 1914
- Michael Balint 1924 After leaving Sachs, Balint finished his training analysis with Ferenczi in Budapest from the mid-1920s, and went on to become his pupil and closest successor.
influenced
- Harry Stack Sullivan 1926 After hearing Ferenczi lecture in New York in 1926, Sullivan urged Clara Thompson to be analysed by him so that the two of them could learn his technique.
- Michael Balint 1937 Balint traces the shared starting point of the Budapest school's work on early object relations straight back to Ferenczi, and through him to Freud. He was Ferenczi's pupil and successor at the Budapest polyclinic, and after his death his literary executor, who transcribed and translated the Clinical Diary.
- Erich Fromm From his 1935 essay on the social determination of psychoanalytic therapy onward, Fromm sided with Ferenczi's call for an analyst who offers the patient warmth and unconditional affirmation, against what he saw as Freud's patricentric reserve.