ABSTRACT
The moment Margaret Mahler, a Hungarian psychiatrist (1897-1985) met Sándor Ferenczi (also Hungarian) in high school, she was fascinated with the concept of the unconscious. She went on to study paediatric medicine in Vienna, became a child psychiatrist, and then, after an analysis with Helene Deutsch, became a psychoanalyst. And the rest, as they say, is history.
