ABSTRACT
This chapter was originally written as a presentation for the International Congress “Clinical Sándor Ferenczi”, held in Turin in July 2002, under the chairmanship of Franco Borgogno. It presents three clinical narratives of episodes from different psychoanalytical treatments, and uses them as examples for the discussion of some of the issues generated by the contrast between traditional analysis and relational analysis, particularly the polemical subject of countertransference disclosure. Sandor Ferenczi, on the contrary, took a very different approach. For him, the only sound basis for conviction about the discoveries of an analysis, for both patient and analyst, was to be found in what he called the “psychoanalytic experience”. After Ferenczi’s fall from Freud’s grace and his untimely death, the psychoanalytic community suppressed any reference to his main interests, including the traumatic genesis of neurosis, the countertransference, and the analysis of psychotic patients.
