Faren Siminoff

Ferenczi's Turn in Psychoanalysis Faren Siminoff

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Review Quotes:"Highly recommended." -"Psychoanalytic Books", Review Quotes:"A fascinating collection of essays by both European and North American psychoanalysts. . . . A major contribution to the growing knowledge about Ferenczi, his inspirations, creativity, and risky directions." -Rosemary Balsam, "Choice"Review Quotes:"Highly recommended."Review Quotes:"Opening the scope to the wider world enables the author to consider how settlers in very small comunities engaged with the process of colonization."-"Connecticut History", Review Quotes: ("Highly recommended." )-("Psychoanalytic Books"), () Review Quotes: ("A fascinating collection of essays by both European and North American psychoanalysts. . . . A major contribution to the growing knowledge about Ferenczi, his inspirations, creativity, and risky directions." )-(Rosemary Balsam), ("Choice") Review Quotes:"The author's estimation of the book's attainments is persuasive."-"International Journal of Maritime History", Biographical Note: Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch is a member of the Viennese Psychoanalytical Society and a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Vienna. She is an editor of the Freud-Ferenczi correspondence. Publisher Marketing: Sigmund Freud's role in the history and development of psychoanalysis continues to be the standard by which others are judged. One of the most remarkable features of that history, however, is the exceptional caliber of the men and women Freud attracted as disciples and coworkers. One of the most influential, and perhaps overlooked, of them was the Hungarian analyst Sndor Ferenczi. Apart from Freud, Ferenczi is the analyst from that pioneering generation who addresses most immediately the concerns of contemporary psychoanalysts. In Ferenczi's Turn in Psychoanalysis fifteen eminent scholars and clinicians from six different countries provide a comprehensive and rigorous examination of Ferenczi's legacy. Although the contributors concur in their assessment of Ferenczi's stature, they often disagree in their judgments about his views and his place in the history of psychoanalysis. For some, he is a radically iconoclastic figure, whose greatest contributions lie in his challenge to Freudian orthodoxy; for others, he is ultimately a classical analyst, who built on Freud's foundations. Divided into three sections, Contexts and Continuities, Disciple and Dissident, and Theory and Technique, the essays in Ferenczi's Turn in Psychoanalysis invite the reader to take part in a dialogue, in which the questions are many and the answers open-ended.

Contributor Bio:  Siminoff, Faren Faren R. Siminoff is assistant professor of history at Nassau Community College. Contributor Bio:  Rudnytsky, Peter L Ellen Handler Spitz is an independent scholar and cultural critic who has published widely on the arts and psychoanalysis. She was a Gethy Scholar in 1989 and 1990 and has taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She currently holds an appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the Cornell University Medical College. She is the author of "Art and Psyche and Image and Insight". Contributor Bio:  Giampieri-Deutsch, Patrizia Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch is a member of the Viennese Psychoanalytical Society and a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Vienna. She is an editor of the Freud-Ferenczi correspondence. Contributor Bio:  Bokay, Antal Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch is a member of the Viennese Psychoanalytical Society and a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Vienna. She is an editor of the Freud-Ferenczi correspondence.