ABSTRACT
After graduation from analytic training in 1968, the author carried around an empty feeling that, unlike his colleagues who had identified with Freud, he was not emotionally connected to any psychoanalytic hero. Someone called Sandor Ferenczi was referenced as an early advocate of active techniques. In 1927, Lorand was the first European analyst to immigrate to the United States. He was the founder of the analytic training program at the Downstate Medical Center of the State University of New York. Sandor Lorand was a gracious host, meeting with him in his office as well as taking him out to lunch. His office was a replica of Freud's Vienna consultation room, filled from floor to ceiling with books and with a Persian rug on the traditional analytic couch. Freud accepted Thompson's version of the event, ignoring that its so-called sexual content may have been a part of the erotic transferences she had expressed to Ferenczi.
