Artículos Sobre Ferenczi. Revisiones Ferenczianas. Georg Groddeck’s Influence on Sandor Ferenczi’s Clinical Practice as Reflected in Their

Georg Groddeck’s influence on Sandor Ferenczi was critically important to the development of psychoanalysis, and includes influencing Ferenczi’s recognition of the significance of the mother which led to the development of object relations theory, his championing the experience of the child and the importance of early trauma, and his recognition of the importance of the body-mind relationship. Excerpts from the new English edition of the Ferenczi-Groddeck Correspondence (Open Gate Press/Other Press) extensively illustrate Groddeck’s impact on Ferenczi’s ideas during the critical period of the mid-1920s to 1932. This paper postulates that, without Groddeck, Ferenczi may never had the courage to challenge Freud, and thereby expand the frontiers of psychoanalysis. Of the early psychoanalysts, Sandor Ferenczi (1873-1933) was considered the most brilliant therapist -acknowledged by Freud to be a ‘master of analysis’. Georg Groddeck (1866-1934), a German physician, was the source for Freud’s concept of the ‘Id’ and has been referred to as the ‘father of psychosomatic medicine’. OVERVIEW OF THE FERENCZI-GRODDECK CORRESPONDENCE 1921-1933 The correspondence, which is primarily Ferenczi’s letters to Groddeck, provides important new insights into Ferenczi’s professional and personal life, including the origins of Ferenczi’s radical clinical and theoretical experiments; his reconsideration of the importance of early trauma; the impact of his own early traumas; Ferenczi’s challenge to the traditional limits of the doctor-patient and analyst-analysand relationships; the complex emotional triangle involving his wife and step-daughter; and Ferenczi as a chronic patient, plagued by physical ailments. Different from his letters to Freud, whom he saw as a father figure, Ferenczi pursued a more open friendship with Groddeck, as though he were a favourite older brother. They explored ideas including self-analysis, mutual analysis, the body-mind relationship, and wrestled with the question of whether psychoanalysis could be a science. The letters resonate with critical theoretical and clinical issues today. Ferenczi’s determination to understand his personal history and heal himself led him to critique fundamental aspects of classical psychoanalysis. These letters illuminate the personal roots of his professional drive. A historical perspective on the evolution of Ferenczi’s ideas is critical since it reveals the origins of basic structures of present-day psychoanalysis and psychotherapy including object relations -intersubjectivity and mutuality, analyst subjectivitythe use of countertransference, and the role of childhood trauma in later mental, emotional and physical life.