ABSTRACT
Sandor Ferenczi was deprived of his university post as well as of his membership of the Budapest Royal Medical Society, which he had joined in 1900. The list of losses for Budapest includes the transfer— to Vienna and the eventual use there— of the generous donation made by Antal Freund of Toszeg. Anti-Semitic assaults were endured by medical students in Budapest on a daily basis. Based on the model of push and pull factors, which captures the dynamic of migration, it is clear that the wave of emigration was triggered by a series of social and economic crises in 1918–1919 as the push factor. Of the members of the Hungarian Society, those who left the country in the first wave of emigration include Jeno Varga, Sandor Rado, Sandor Lorand, Melanie Klein, and Jeno Harnik–and most of them chose the Weimar Republic. Berlin took on a new significance in the psychoanalytic movement between 1930 and 1933.
