ABSTRACT
A contemporary of Sigmund Freud, for whom he was simultaneously a disciple, a patient, a friend and a confidant, Sándor Ferenczi was not only a prestigious psychoanalyst, but was also an analyst who may be considered as 'exceptional'. With his original, bold and creative mind, as well as his extreme concern to eschew all dogmatism and to preserve complete autonomy in thought and action, Ferenczi created an oeuvre that seems today to be one of the most endearing that psychoanalysis nurtured in his time. According to those who witnessed his evolution from the very beginning of his career as a psychoanalyst, which lasted 25 years, Ferenczi imposed himself as an innovative and fruitful theoretician and as a clinician reputed for his unusual talent as a therapist. Ferenczi tried to highlight the idea that in order to analyse certain psychic impasses inherent to the treatment of complex situations, the analyst, must try to modify certain aspects of the classical analytic setting.
