ABSTRACT
A survey of the intersections of psychoanalysis and scientific discoveries motivated one of Sandor Ferenczi's essential writings. In Ferenczi's argumentation, the elements of the development of the self-conscious mind were to be sought in the past. Experimentation, relations of reflective and self-reflective understandings, and the need for authentic expression are among the core values of Ferenczi's functioning, and they represent values that can be detected in the approach taken by the Budapest School. Ferenczi's entire career as a psychoanalyst was characterised by the conviction that the almighty conscious of the adults and moral education based on the repression of thought must be replaced by a learning process based on insight and mutual co-operation. Ferenczi was very circumspect in judging hypnosis. He also discussed the responsibility of post-hypnotic suggestion and fought against a ministerial order that required the presence of a third party during hypnosis.
