CHAPTERTITLE I FERENCZI AND HIS WORLD The History of Psychoanalysis Series Professor Brett Kahr and Professor Peter L. Rudnytsky (Series Editors) Published and distributed by Karnac Books Other titles in the Series Her Hour Come Round at Last: A Garland for Nina Coltart edited by Peter L. Rudnytsky and Gillian Preston Rescuing Psychoanalysis from Freud and Other Essays in Re-Vision by Peter L. Rudnytsky FERENCZI AND HIS WORLD Rekindling the Spirit of the Budapest School edited by Judit Szekacs-Weisz and Tom Keve First published in 2012 by Karnac Books Ltd 118 Finchley Road, London NW3 5HT Copyright © 2012 to Judit Szekacs-Weisz and Tom Keve for the edited collection and to the individual authors for their contributions. The rights of the editors and contributors to be identified as the authors of this work have been asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A C.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 78049 020 5 Edited, designed and produced by The Studio Publishing Services Ltd www.publishingservicesuk.co.uk e-mail: [email protected] Printed in Great Britain www.karnacbooks.com CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ix SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD by Peter L. Rudnytsky xiii INTRODUCTIONby Judit Szekacs-Weisz xxi CHAPTER ONE Ferenczi remembered 1 Tom Keve CHAPTER TWO Sandor Ferenczi the man 31 Imre Hermann CHAPTER THREE Some social and political issues related to Ferenczi 39 and the Hungarian school Ferenc Ero(cid:1)s v vi CONTENTS CHAPTER FOUR Ferenczi in context 55 Edith Kurzweil CHAPTER FIVE Ferenczi now and then: an introduction to his world 69 André Haynal CHAPTER SIX Healing boredom: Ferenczi and his circle of literary friends 87 Michelle Moreau-Ricaud CHAPTER SEVEN Ferenczi and Ortvay: two boys from Miskolc 97 Tom Keve CHAPTER EIGHT Ferenczi and trauma: a perilous journey to the labyrinth 111 György Hidas CHAPTER NINE Regression post-Ferenczi 129 Harold Stewart CHAPTER TEN Imre Hermann: researching psyche and space 139 Sára Klaniczay CHAPTER ELEVEN Physics, metaphysics, and psychoanalysis 157 Tom Keve INDEX 179 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It is a pleasureto thank all the authors for their excellent and insight- ful contributions and for their patience through the several years that it has taken to refine this volume. The continued support and helpful, critical comments of Professor Ferenc Ero(cid:1)s is gratefully acknow- ledged. Mrs Anna Kovács and Ildikó Kovács aided us with research and careful copy-editing, while Mr Mark Baczoni kindly translated several Ferenczi obituaries from the Hungarian original for Chapter Two. The professional and personal support of Kathleen Kelley-Lainé over the years is also greatly valued and much appreciated by both of us. We thank Mr Ivan Ward for his good-natured support over the years and for the facilities of the Freud Museum, of which we availed ourselves. Thanks are also due to Ken Robinson and the Archives of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Institute of Psy- choanalysis for access and permission to reproduce correspondence (and photographs). We are happy to thank Her Excellency, Mrs Katalin Bogyay, Hungary’s ambassador to UNESCO, for continued interest and support of our projects and for her belief that social sciences and psychoanalytic ideas are a valuable part of a nation’s culture. vii viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Last, but certainly not least, we are very pleased to acknowledge helpful advice of our Series Editors, Professors Peter Rudnytsky and Brett Kahr, and are grateful to them and to Mr Oliver Rathbone of Karnac Books for inclusion in their History of Psychoanalysis series. Judit Szekacs-Weisz and Tom Keve Imago International, London, June 2011 ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS Ferenc Ero(cid:1)s (1946) studied psychology and literature at the ELTE University in Budapest, and graduated in 1969. He obtained his PhD in 1986, and he has been Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc) since 2002. Currently, he is Professor of Social Psychology at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Pécs, where he has directed a doctoral programme in psychoanalytic studies since 1997. Simul- taneously, he directs a social psychological research unit at the Research Institute of Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sci- ences in Budapest. In the academic year 2010–2011, he was senior fellow at the Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Studies. The focus of his present research includes the social and cultural history of psychoanalysis in Central Europe, psychoanalytic theory and its appli- cation to social issues, the problem of trauma, and cultural memory. He edited the Hungarian translation of the Freud–Ferenczi correspon- dence, and he published—in collaboration with Judit Szekacs—the correspondence between Sandor Ferenczi and Ernest Jones. He is author of several scientific books and articles in his areas of research. André Haynal is Honorary Professor of the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and former Visiting Professor at Stanford University ix