ABSTRACT
Geza Rooheim had the good and bad luck to be born the only child of fairly well-to-do parents. Their house was well known throughout Budapest for its hospitality, excellent kitchen, and more excellent wines, grown in their own vineyards. On his return from Germany he joined the staff of the Ethnological Department of the Hungarian National Museum, a post he held until 1919, when the counter-revolution forced him to resign. In 1916 Sandor Ferenczi, relieved of his onerous war duties as the medical officer of a squadron of Hussars and posted to a hospital for war neuroses in Budapest, was allowed to restart his private practice on a part-time basis. The munificence of Princess Marie Bonaparte enabled him to fulfil this ambition and to spend the years 1928-31 in field work in Somaliland, Central Australia, the Normanby Islands, and with the Yuma Indians in Arizona.
