27 RUE DE FLEURUS, A SALON MEETING OF THE CONTEMPORARY FREUDIAN SOCIETY
“Ferenczi, Yesterday and Today” Jay Frankel
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 8:00 to 10:00pm Location: TBA
Sándor Ferenczi was Freud=s intimate friend, colleague, and collaborator, and also a radical, independent thinker. His profoundly democratic sensibility, his insistence on providing analytic treatment to the most difficult patients, and – most important – his revolutionary conceptions in areas ranging from trauma, to object relations, to the intersubjective nature of the analytic relationship, and his developing new treatment methods based on these discoveries, ultimately
estranged him from his mentor and, for decades, from the psychoanalytic world. But in the long run, his groundbreaking ideas and experiments in technique proved foundational for later object-relational, interpersonal, and relational thinking. Even today, his contributions are at the cutting edge and have much to teach us. And he left behind a Clinical Diary (1932) that, in its clarity of thinking, scrupulous honesty, and frank, detailed descriptions of his courageous clinical work, is a singular document in psychoanalytic literature. We will discuss Ferenczi=s main contributions, both in historical context and as they continue to engage us in dialogue about contemporary clinical thinking and methods.
Jay Frankel is an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor in the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; a faculty member at IPTAR; a Professor in the Master’s program in Critical Theory and the Arts, at the School of Visual Arts; an Associate Editor (and formerly Executive Editor) for the journal Psychoanalytic Dialogues; the author of two dozen journal articles and book chapters, and numerous conference and colloquium presentations, on topics including trauma, identification, play, the analytic relationship, and the work of Sándor Ferenczi, and co-author of the book Relational Child Psychotherapy (2002, Other Press).
Readings:
Ferenczi, S (1949) Confusion of Tongues Between Adults and the Child: The Language of Tenderness and of Passion, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 30, pp.225-230
Program Fee: $20.00
Nancy Cromer Grayson and Debra Gill, Co-Chairs, Susan N. Finkelstein, Moderator
For additional information, please contact Debra Gill (debra.gill@gmail.com) or Nancy Cromer-Grayson (cromergrayson@gmail.com).
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