ABSTRACT
Kolnai had returned to counter-revolutionary Budapest with his family before Christmas 1919. Early in 1920 he wrote to Sándor Ferenczi, the leader of the Hungarian psychoanalysts, expressing his keen interest in the cultural implications of psychoanalysis and “correcting a misinterpretation of Spencer’s philosophy in one of his essays”. This elicited an invitation to call, and in early February Kolnai told Imre Kinszky that he and Ferenczi had had a good talk. “Struck by my suggestion”, he goes on in the memoirs,
that psychoanalytic conceptions might provide a spiritual weapon against Marxism and Bolshevism and perhaps against Reaction as well, he commissioned me to write two papers with this end in view. 1
