ABSTRACT
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part explains a trajectory originally anticipated by Sandor Ferenczi. There is clearly an attempt to keep something alive, the memory of the work with Ferenczi, the memory of his first wife, perhaps, and the work with his colleagues, Imre Hermann and Endre Peto, who stayed in Hungary. The part examines what changes are necessary if one abandons the economic model and regards impulses as primarily energy to give dynamic charge to structure. It shows how interpretations, made on the basis of impulses, release a flood of oral-sadistic phantasies. The part focuses on genetic continuity, so frequently resorted to at Nazi period, in which he extrapolates back, as did Sigmund Freud, to the early moments of the ego.
