Volume 35, Number 19 · December 8, 1988
The Lovable Analyst
By Phyllis Grosskurth
The Clinical Diary of Sándor Ferenczi
edited by Judith Dupont, translated by Michael Balint, by Nicola Zarday Jackson
Harvard University Press, 227 pp., $29.95
In the mythology surrounding Freud's early career, Sándor Ferenczi has emerged as the most lovable and generous of Freud's close colleagues, a man whose personal qualities contrast with the deviousness of Ernest Jones, the aloofness of Karl Abraham, and the knotted-up character of Otto Rank. While it has generally been acknowledged that Ferenczi was for years Freud's favorite disciple, he has been regarded with suspicion for his experiments in psychoanalytic technique; and it has been assumed that his mind deteriorated in the years before his death in 1933.
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