Known for his willingness to take on “difficult” cases, Sandór Ferenczi developed an original theory of traumatogenesis, based on the notion of disavowal (Verleugnung) of the unspeakable pain of the subject traumatized by the other, to whom he turns in search of testimony, recognition and reparation. His subtle understanding of the fact that psychic trauma causes the subject to identify with the aggressor, followed by a narcissistic split, indicated the need to rethink clinical practice according to a psychoanalytic ethic of care. Ferenczi developed an emphatic style that was not only the main inspiration for some of the later developments in Freud’s conception of clinical practice, but was also significant for the work of authors such as Winnicott and Lacan, for whom the psychic work of the analyst is included in the process of working-through in analysis.
Why Ferenczi?
is a psychoanalyst and a professor at the Institute of Psychology, University of São Paulo. He is a research advisor on the history of psychoanalysis and contemporary psychoanalytic practice, as well as on creativity, politics, humor and cultural processes. He has taught as a guest professor at universities in Europe and the United States. He is currently the president of the Sándor Ferenczi Brazilian Research Group and a member of the board of the International Sándor Ferenczi Network. He has authored articles published in French, English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, and books published in Brazil, the United States and France.
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Why Ferenczi? The empathic style in psychoanalysis
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Sándor Ferenczi (1873-1933) was a Hungarian psychoanalyst who was a member of the first generation of psychoanalysts who gathered around Freud. He became Freud’s main interlocutor from 1908, the year the two met, until his early death, and can be considered the co-creator of clinical psychoanalysis in the first half of the 20th century. The advances in understanding what psychoanalysis is are inseparable from the dialog and debates established by these two authors. His criticism of his peers’ rigid attachment to the principles of classical psychoanalytic technique – for which he was nicknamed the enfant terrible of psychoanalysis – led him to devise an empathic clinical style, capable of welcoming severely traumatized patients who had no voice in the psychoanalysis of his time. His approach to the various forms of psychic suffering has become indispensable to all those who seek to face the challenges of contemporary psychoanalytic practice.
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