ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis, as it occurs in practice and in accompanying reflections, represents an original perspective for seeing human beings: a synthesis of psychological, biological, literary, and philosophical insights. Emerging from nineteenth-century concepts, today it endeavours to speak to the anxieties, worry, disillusionment, and hopelessness of contemporary post-modernity. This work of renewal was powerfully influenced, almost from the beginning, by a great figure: Sándor Ferenczi, a foundational inspiration of contemporary psychoanalysis.
