ABSTRACT
Ferenczi’s personal analysis experience with, and despite, Freud, with its achievements and limitations, with the promise it offered in 1922, as well as the stumbling blocks that seemed to mark its failure in 1932, confirmed Ferenczi in a belief he never abandoned. Indeed, despite the inequities to which he was subjected in the course of his lengthy and active participation in the life of the analytic movement and of its institutions, he never stopped believing in the possibility of creating, one day, “a small group of men [who] could be thoroughly analyzed.” This is what we consider the essential success of this analysis, unique in its time. This belief, which resisted all adversity, is inscribed in an exemplary analytic path.
