Dreaming of freud: Ferenczi, freud, and an analysis without end
Title:
Dreaming of freud: Ferenczi, freud, and an analysis without end
Author:
Falzeder, Ernst
Appeared in:
International forum of psychoanalysis
Paging:
Volume 5 (1996) nr. 4 pages 265-270
Year:
1996-10-01
Contents:
The present paper tries to show that Ferenczi had developed a full-blown transference neurosis towards Freud already before his analysis with the latter. Special attention is given to one dream of Ferenczi's, dreamed shortly before the beginning of the analysis, and showing Ferenczi's desire for freeing himself from Freud's influence, his difficulties in doing so, his urgent plea to Freud to help him to become more independent from that very Freud, his submission to him, and the hope that a psychoanalysis with Freud would help him to find a way out of all this. To this powerful and contradictory message, Freud reacts by consenting to an analysis. Freud, however, underestimated the effects of the personal entanglement and overestimated his ability to control the ensuing situation-an analysis that continued to be “at an end,” but not “terminated,” or terminated, but without end.
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