ABSTRACT
In the book Disappearing and Reviving Haynal (2002) raises the issue whether “everything in Ferenczi’s career before he met Freud in 1908 was pre-psychoanalytic, and everything that came after was ... psychoanalytic.” In fact, “three months after the first conversation between the two men, Ferenczi was addressing the Salzburg Congress. Had he become a psychoanalyst in three months? That would be a record even for Ferenczi! The truth is plainly more complex” (p. 1). Additionally, in 1909 Ferenczi published a contribution that has become a cornerstone of psychoanalytic theory and technique, “Introjection and transference”, showing an in-depth knowledge of the discipline. Where had that knowledge come from?
