ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on certain aspects of the period in order to demonstrate that the process through which psychoanalysis grew into an academic discipline taught at university level in Budapest was, beyond doubt, the outcome of a systematic evolution and did not happen by accident. The success of the Budapest congress strengthened the community of Hungarian psychoanalysts and gained even more widespread support for psychoanalysis itself. Sandor Ferenczi's theory of regression recognisably integrated Haeckel's theoretical model of ontogeny and phylogeny, according to which the development of the individual repeated the evolution of species, as expressed in the catchphrase "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny". A laboratory for experimental psychology was in operation under Geza Revesz within the faculty of humanities at the university in Budapest. Revesz dealt with general psychological topics: the psychology of seeing, hearing, and touching; the psychology of thinking, creativity, and talent; child psychology; and the psychology of music.
