About the Book
Charts the development of Ferenczi's 'Active Technique' in papers such as "The Technique of Psychoanalysis" and "Further Development of an Active Therapy". Ferenczi made outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. This volume, first published in 1926, brings together the fruit of ten year's work and study. Primary medical in orientation and concerned with technique, it covers a wide range of topics: Nosology, Technique, Sexual Theory, From the Nursery, Dreams, Symbolism, Applied Psycho-Analysis, Medical Jurisprudence and Religion.
Table of Contents:
Compiler’s Note to First Edition , Author’s Preface , Nosology , The Analytic Conception of the Psycho-Neuroses 1 , Actual- and Psycho-Neuroses in the Light of Freud’s Investigations and Psycho-Analysis 1 , Suggestion and Psycho-Analysis 1 , On Forced Phantasies 1 , Disease- or Patho-Neuroses 1 , The Phenomena of Hysterical Materialization 1 , ‘Materialization’ in Globus Hystericus 1 , Psychogenic Anomalies of Voice Production 1 , An Attempted Explanation of Some Hysterical Stigmata 1 , The Psycho-Analysis of a Case of Hysterical Hypochondria 1 , Two Types of War Neuroses 2 , Psycho-Analytical Observations on TIC 1 , Sunday Neuroses 1 , On the Technique of Psycho-Analysis 1 , Technical Difficulties in the Analysis of a Case of Hysteria 1 , The Further Development of an Active Therapy in Psycho-Analysis 1 , Contra-Indications to the ‘Active’ Psycho-Analytical Technique 2 , Thinking and Muscle Innervation 1 , Discontinuous Analyses 1 , On Influencing of the Patient in Psycho-Analysis 1 , Attention During the Narration of Dreams 1 , Restlessness Towards the End of the Hour of Analysis 2 , Sensations of Giddiness at the End of the Psycho-Analytic Session 2 , A Transitory Symptom. The Position During Treatment 1 , The Compulsion to Symmetrical Touching 2 , The Psychic Consequences of a ‘Castration’ in Childhood 1 , On Falling Asleep During Analysis 1 , Silence is Golden 1 , Talkativeness 1 , Sexual Theory , The Scientific Significance of Freud’s ‘Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality’ 1 , Composite Formations of Erotic and Character Traits 1 , Psycho-Analysis of Sexual Habits 1 , Pollution Without Dream Orgasm and Dream Orgasm Without Pollution 1 , The Dream of the Occlusive Pessary 2 , Washing-Compulsion and Masturbation 1 , ParæSthesias of the Genital Regions in Impotence 1 , Shuddering at Scratching on Glass, etc. 3 , Infantile Ideas about the Female Genital Organs 1 , Ptyalism in an Oral-Erotic 1 , Embarrassed Hands 2 , Rubbing the Eyes as a Substitute for Onanism 1 , An ‘Anal Hollow-Penis’ in Woman 2 , Micturition as a Sedative 3 , Dread of Cigar and Cigarette Smoking 1 , Obsessional Etymologizing 2 , Cornelia, the Mother of the Gracchi 4 , From the Nursery , The ‘Grandfather Complex’ 1 , Flatus as an Adult Prerogative 1 , Childish Ideas of Digestion 2 , Disgust for Breakfast 1 , The Cause of Reserve in a Child 1 , Two Typical FæCal and Anal Symptoms 2 , Nakedness as a Means for Inspiring Terror 1 , The Psycho-Analysis of Wit and the Comical 2 , Interchange of Affect in Dreams 1 , Dreams of the Unsuspecting 1 , To Whom does One Relate One’s Dreams? 1 , The Dream of the ‘Clever Baby’ 2 , A Striking Picture of the ‘Unconscious’ 2 , Pompadour Phantasies 1 , Symbolism , The Symbolism of the Bridge 1 , Bridge Symbolism and the Don Juan Legend 2 , Significant Variants of the Shoe as a Vagina Symbol 1 , The Symbolism of Bed-Linen 1 , The Kite as a Symbol of Erection 3 , On the Symbolism of the Head of Medusa 1 , The Fan as a Genital Symbol 1 , Vermin as a Symbol of Pregnancy 3 , Pecunia Olet 1 , An Anal-Erotic Proverb 1 , Spectrophobia 2 , The Psychic Effect of the Sunbath 3 , The Problem of Acceptance of Unpleasant Ideas—advances in Knowledge of the Sense of Reality 1 , The Psyche as an Inhibiting Organ 1 , Concerning the Psychogenesis of Mechanism 1 , Supplement to ‘The Psychogenesis of Mechanism’ 1 , The Analysis of Comparisons 1 , On Supposed Mistakes 1 , The ‘Forgetting’ of a Symptom and Its Explanation in a Dream 1 , The ‘Family Romance’ of a Lowered Social Position 1 , Mental Disturbance as a Result of Social Advancement 1 , The Sons of the ‘Tailor’ 1 , ‘Nonum Prematur in Annum’ 1 , Stage-Fright and Narcissistic Self-Observation 1 , Hebbel’s Explanation of ‘DejÀ Vu’ 1 , Polycratism 1 , Medical Jurisprudence and Religion , A Lecture for Judges and Barristers 1 , Psycho-Analysis and Criminology 1 , Belief, Disbelief, and Conviction 1 , Obsessional Neurosis and Piety 1.
About the Author :
Sandor Ferenczi (7 July 1873 - 22 May 1933) was a Hungarian psychoanalyst, a key theorist of the psychoanalytic school and a close associate of Sigmund Freud whod latter wrote that Ferenczi made "all analysts his students", a fitting tribute to a towering figure of psychoanalysis. In 1910, at Freud's suggestion, Ferenczi proposed the founding of the International Psychoanalytic Association, and in 1913 founded the Hungarian Psychoanalytic Society. In 1916 he underwent a brief personal analysis with Freud, and in 1918 was elected president of the International Psychoanalytic Society. Ferenczi's early contributions to psychoanalysis have been so fully assimilated that their origin is often forgotten, although his later writings, which were more speculative and deviated from Freudian orthodoxy, have been less widely accepted. He is acknowledged to have been a gifted therapist. He proposed a number of innovations in technique including at first these centered on the so-called "active" technique, while his later study of reactions of disappointment and mistrust that the child suffers in his relationship with his parents inspired a few of his pupils, notably Alice Balint (1949), to investigate early parent-child relationships.
