ABSTRACT
Sandor Ferenczi, a Hungarian psychoanalyst and intimate of Freud until he was ostracized from Freud's inner circle, placed an inordinate emphasis on the concept of mutuality. The author’s training analyst, Emmanuel Ghent, was analyzed by Clara Thompson, who herself was analyzed by Ferenczi. There has been a growing appreciation of the importance of Ferenczi's contribution, and his influence on the evolution of modern psychoanalysis. Ferenczi emphasized that the interaction between analyst and analysand was primary, and in his practice he engaged in a high degree of self-disclosure. When psychoanalysts trace their analytic ancestry back through time, they can discover their unconscious family tree. Psychoanalysts are great-grandchildren in the lineage of psychoanalysis as one generation's unconscious is passed down to the next. Some would consider Jerry's disclosures a breach of the psychoanalytic ground rules also referred to as the "frame".
