Translator's Note Note on Transcription of the Original Correspondence Abbreviations of Works Cited Introduction by Axel Hoffer Correspondence Works by Freud and Ferenczi Cited in the Text Index
Ernst Falzeder, a psychologist in Liezen, Austria, has published widely on the history of psychoanalysis. Eva Brabant is a psychoanalyst and historian in Paris. Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch is a psychoanalyst and lecturer in philosophy at the University of Vienna. Peter T. Hoffer is Professor of German at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. Axel Hoffer, M.D., a practicing psychoanalyst in the Boston area, is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England (PINE).
Freud's extensive correspondence with his disciples offers an
inside vantage point on the psychoanalytic movement...[and] no
colleague wrote to Freud on more intimate terms than Sándor
Ferenczi...Absorbing...Like the first volume of the Freud-Ferenczi
correspondence, Volume 2 has been meticulously prepared. Footnotes
to each letter explain literary and biographical references,
translate Latin phrases and occasionally even explain jokes. Axel
Hoffer's introduction offers enough background to make this second
volume worth reading on its own.
*San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle*
The second volume of the Freud-Ferenczi correspondence commences
with the beginnings of World War I, and the events of that period
form a background to the correspondence, which carries on through
to December 1919. The letters, as in Volume 1, give a vivid and
fascinating story of the interaction between Ferenczi and Freud,
including Ferenczi's periods of analysis with Freud, and the
intensely personal correspondence between the two.
*International Journal of Psycho-Analysis*
This comprises the second volume of the three-volume collection of
the Freud-Ferenczi correspondence, and should be of great interest
to those wishing to chart the road of this rocky friendship.
Brilliant moments of self-analysis and analysis are contained here,
analyses that clash, fall apart, and reconstruct before the
reader's eyes. The volume offers crucial insights into the
psychoanalytic method and into the thin line between friendship and
the analyst/analysand relationship.
*Virginia Quarterly Review*
The experience of the Hungarian psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi as an
almost combatant is well documented here...From a scholarly point
of view, the correspondence is rich in its discussions of the major
anthropological texts which Freud worked on during [World War I] as
well as pragmatic questions of technique. Ferenczi's discussion of
his own analytic work is such that this volume serves as a natural
parallel to the published clinical diaries. And the deviations from
'orthodox' approaches are noted by Freud...The most fascinating
part of the correspondence was its tone. Only in Freud's letters
with Karl Abraham, who was very much more of his own generation,
does one get the bantering quality which marks an exchange between
equals...As with the first volume, this volume is the final result
of a project begun by Michael Balint in the 1950s. The editing and
notes are impeccable and the translation fluid. It is imperative
that we continue to get such exchanges to clarify and document
Freud's life and world. They will also have a wide range of other
readers. When is volume three going to appear?
*Medical History*
An excellent introduction by the American analyst Axel Hoffer [to
these letters] places the emotional interchange between Freud and
Ferenczi (whose mutual creativity regarding analytic understanding
flourished) in personal, historical, and professional context...An
exciting read for all interested in the underpinnings of the cradle
of psychoanalysis and the history of ideas, and for scholars
interested in correspondence of the period.
*Choice*
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