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The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi, Volume 2 - 1914-1919 (Hardcover)
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The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi, Volume 2 - 1914-1919 (Hardcover)
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Volume I of the three-volume Freud-Ferenczi correspondence closes
with Freud's letter from Vienna, dated June 28, 1914, to his
younger colleague in Budapest: "I am writing under the impression
of the surprising murder in Sarajevo, the consequences of which
cannot be foreseen!' "Now," he continues in a more familiar vein,
"to our affairs!" The nation-shattering events of World War I form
a somber canvas for "our affairs" and the exchanges of the two
correspondents in volume 2 (July 1914 through December 1919).
Uncertainty pervades these letters: Will Ferenczi be called up?
Will food and fuel-and cigar-shortages continue? Will Freud's three
enlisted sons and son-in-law come through the war intact? And will
Freud's "problem-child," psychoanalysis, survive?At the same time,
a more intimate drama is unfolding: Freud's three-part analysis of
Ferenczi in 1914 and 1916 ("finished but not terminated");
Ferenczi's concomitant turmoil over whether to marry his mistress,
Gizella Palos, or her daughter, Elma; and the refraction of all
these relationships in constantly shifting triads and dyads. In
these, as in other matters, both men display characteristic
contradictions and inconsistencies, Freud restrained, Ferenczi more
effusive and revealing. Freud, for example, unswervingly favors
Ferenczi's marriage to Gizella and views his indecision as
"resistance"; yet several years later, commenting on Otto Rank's
wife, Freud remarks, "One certainly can't judge in these
matters...on behalf of another." Ferenczi, for his part, reacts to
the paternal authority of the "father of psychoanalysis" as an
alternately obedient and rebellious son. The letters vividly record
the use--and misuse--of analysis and self-analysis and the close
interweaving of personal and professional matters in the early
history of psychoanalysis. Ferenczi's eventual disagreement with
Freud about "head and heart," objective detachment versus
subjective involvement and engagement in the analytic
relationship--an issue that would emerge more clearly in the
ensuing years--is hinted at here. As the decade and the volume end,
the correspondents continue their literary conversation, unaware of
the painful and heartrending events ahead.
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