The Budapest School of Psychoanalysis: The Origin of a Two-Person Psychology and Emphatic Perspective

235 Pages·2016·6.872 MB·English

by  Arnold WM Rachman

The Budapest School of Psychoanalysis

The Budapest School of Psychoanalysis brings together a collection of
expertly written pieces on the influence of the Budapest (Ferenczi) con-
ception of analytic theory and practice on the evolution of psychoanaly-
sis. It touches on major figures Sándor Ferenczi and Michael Balint,
whilst concurrently considering topics such as Ferenczi’s clinical diary,
the study of trauma, the Confusion of Tongues paradigm, and Balint’s
perspective on supervision. Further to this, the book highlights Jacques
Lacan’s teaching of Ferenczi, which brings a fresh perspective to a rela-
tively unknown connection between them.
The book highlights that the Hungarian analysts, influenced by
Ferenczi, through their pioneering work developed a psychoanalytic para-
digm which became an alternative to the Freudian tradition. That this
paradigm has become recognized and admired in its own right underlines
the need to clearly outline, as this book does, the historical context and
the output of those who are writing and working in the tradition of the
Budapest School.
The contributions to this volume demonstrate the widespread and endur-
ing influence of the Budapest School on contemporary psychoanalysis. The
contributors are amongst the foremost in Budapest School scholarship and
the insights they offer are at once profound as well as insightful.
This book is an important read for those practitioners and students
of psychoanalysis who wish for an insight into the early and develop-
ing years of the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis and its impact on
contemporary clinical practice.
Arnold Wm. Rachman is a licensed psychologist, trained psychoana-
lyst, Member of the Board of Directors at the Sandor Ferenczi Center,
The New School For Social Research, NYC, and Honorary Member at
the Sandor Ferenczi Society, Budapest, Hungary. Donor, The Elizabeth
Severn Papers, The Library Of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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The Budapest School of

Psychoanalysis
The Origin of a Two-Person Psychology
and Emphatic Perspective
Edited by Arnold Wm. Rachman
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Title: The Budapest school of psychoanalysis : the origin of a two-person
psychology and emphatic perspective / edited by Arnold Rachman.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. |
Series: Psychoanalytic inquiry book series |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015046767| ISBN 9781138195202 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781138195219 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Psychoanalysis–History. | Psychoanalysis–Hungary–
Budapest– History. | Ferenczi, Sâandor, 1873–1933.
Classification: LCC RC503 .B83 2016 | DDC 616.89/17–dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015046767
ISBN: 978-1-138-19520-2 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-19521-9 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-62961-2 (ebk)
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To my grandchildren, Gabriela Sara Rachman and Matthew Adam

Rachman, who provide an emotional undercurrent of joy, love and
embrace that gives motivation and meaning to my life.
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Contents

Prologue ix
Introduction
JOSEPH LICHTENBERG 1
1 The Ferenczi House as a space for identity formation 4

JUDIT MÉSZÁROS
2 A multifaceted legacy: Sándor Ferenczi’s Clinical Diary 15

JUDITH DUPONT
3 Ferenczi: Lacan’s missed rendez-vous? 26

YVES LUGRIN
4 From Lacan to Ferenczi 58

MICHAEL LARIVIÈRE
5 A “Wise Baby”? Ferenczi’s presence 83

ANDRÉ HAYNAL
6 Freud, Ferenczi, and the case of Schreber:
A mutual enactment of homoerotic longings,
homophobia, and internalized anti-Semitism 104

LEWIS ARON AND KAREN STARR
7 The dimensions of the Freud/Ferenczi correspondence 128

PETER HOFFER
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8 The Budapest School’s concept of supervision:
Michael Balint’s legacy to the development of
psychoanalytic specificity theory 140

HOWARD BACAL
9 Psychoanalysis’ neglect of the incest trauma:
The Confusion of Tongues between psychoanalysis
and society 164

ARNOLD WM. RACHMAN
10 Confusion of Tongues trauma in child abduction:
Revising the Stockholm Syndrome 182

ARNOLD WM. RACHMAN
Epilogue
ARNOLD WM. RACHMAN 209
Index 216
Prologue

Arnold W m. Rachman
I can first trace my interest and discovery of Ferenczi and the Budapest
School back to my undergraduate education at the intellectually and
politically liberal University of Buffalo in the late 1950s. At Buffalo,
my intellectual awakening and interest in psychology occurred. Marvin
Farber, a student of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology,
taught me about the meaning of logic and the scientific method and
phenomenology for understanding human behavior. The psycholo-
gists Aron Herskovitz and Olive Lester affirmed my capacity to be a
psychologist. Here, the foundation was formed for a liberal intellectual
perspective, not based on dogma but on an independent evidence and
experience-based perspective.
In my doctoral work at the University of Chicago in the early 1960s
in the Committee on Human Development and the Department of
Clinical Psychology, I was fortunate to be taught the value of a inter-
disciplinary perspective to human behavior by Robert Havinghurst
and Bernice Neugarten. In the Department of Clinical Psychology,
I had contact with Samuel Beck, William Henry, and Heinz Kohut.
Training in the Counseling and Psychotherapy Research Center,
founded by Carl Rogers, provided the idea of nonmedical profession-
als capable of being psychotherapists and psychoanalysts and helped
me gain an identity as an psychotherapist. It also provided an appreci-
ation for applying phenomenology to understanding human behavior
and developing an active, responsive, and empathic attitude for clin-
ician interaction. I greatly benefited from the teaching, supervision,
personal interchanges, and empathic atmosphere provided by Jack
Butler, Rosalyn Cartwright, Eugene Gedlin, Laura Rice, John Shlien,
and Fred Zimring.