ABSTRACT
Georg Groddeck was a practitioner of medicine and psychotherapy who, despite Freud's wishes, refused to join "the savage horde" of analysts. Through Freud, Ferenczi had discovered the work of Groddeck in 1917, well before meeting him in the summer of 1921. In The Correspondence with Ferenczi, Freud first mentions this name on January 19, 1918: “Sokolnicka appears to be founding a psychoanalytic society in Warsaw.” The character trait that distorts Eugenie’s relation to men and to women is clearly identified by Ferenczi: “In a word: she exaggerated her femininity in order to conceal her virility expressed itself from the very beginning.”. Ferenczi always remained on the margins of the training and teaching models of the Berlin institution. The strength of the desire authorises the reader to conclude that Ferenczi’s personal analysis, so dearly paid and considered failed, was, after all, a success.
