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September 14, 2024
Author: Daniel Kupermann
Why Ferenczi?
The empathic style in psychoanalysis
Discussant: Mariana Toledo
Moderator: Endre Koritar
Sandór Ferenczi developed an original theory of traumatogenesis, and his subtle understanding of the fact that psychic trauma causes the subject to identify with the aggressor, followed by a narcissistic split, indicated the need to rethink clinical practice according to a psychoanalytic ethic of care. Ferenczi developed an emphatic style that was not only the main inspiration for some of the later developments in Freud’s conception of clinical practice, but was also significant for the work of authors such as Winnicott and Lacan, for whom the psychic work of the analyst is included in the process of working- through in analysis.
Daniel Kupermann is a psychoanalyst, professor at the Institute of Psychology at the University of São Paulo and CNPq researcher. He conducts research in the areas of the history of psychoanalysis, contemporary psychoanalytic practice, humor and contemporary subjectivities. He has been a guest lecturer at universities in Europe and the United States. He is president of the Brazilian Sándor Ferenczi Research Group and a board member of the International Sándor Ferenczi Network. He is the author of several articles published in scientific journals in Brazil and abroad, and several books, most notably the book Why Ferenczi? The empathic style in psychoanalysis, published in English by Blucher, in Portuguese by Zagodoni, and in French by Les éditions d’Ithaque.
Mariana Toledo is a psychoanalyst from Sao Paulo, Brazil, with a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of São Paulo, and a Master’s student in Clinical Psychology at the same institution. She has founded and coordinates Um a Um Espaço de Psicanálise, an online collective transmission initiative in psychoanalysis, with study groups and supervision groups. She is a member of the Psychoanalysis Research and Intervention Laboratory at USP, of the Brazilian Sándor Ferenczi Research Group (GBPSF) and the ISFN, and of the Psychoanalysis Training Department at the Sedes Sapientiae Institute.
Endre Koritar, MD, FRCP(C), FIPA, is a training and supervising analyst with the Western Canada Psychoanalytic Society Institute. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of the University of British Columbia affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry. He is on the Board of Directors of the ISFN, the National Council of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, the National Training Committee, and an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is interested in researching and elaborating on the ideas of Sándor Ferenczi, who was a harbinger of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and technique.
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