ABSTRACT
Sandor Ferenczi's study trip between 1926 and 1927 took place during this period of consolidation, made possible by an invitation from The New School for Social Research in New York. After an era of crisis and chaos, in a hopeful age of political and economic consolidation between 1925 and 1937, the tiny Hungarian Society managed to find itself again. Geza Roheim was engaged in mythological research within Hungarian folklore studies, which had started in the nineteenth century. Roheim started his analytic training with Sandor Ferenczi, and his writings were published as of the late 1910s in international psychoanalytic journals. Ferenczi contributed, as did Sandor Feldman and so many other physician-analysts; Freud Berggasse, Erich Fromm, and Wilhelm Reich published book reviews in the journal. For Ferenczi, the journey to America was undoubtedly successful. Ferenczi recognised that not working through negative transference destroys the quality of analysis and throws up stumbling blocks to key processes.
