Lacan Ferenczi … une paradoxale parenté ?

Abstract

Lacan’s relationship with Ferenczi eclipsed dramatically over time. In his early teaching, Lacan presented Ferenczi as the most brilliant of the first generation of analysts, whose subversive reflections on analytic practice he hoped to pursue. Eventually references to Ferenczi disappeared from his writings, even when he took up the question of “trauma” in relation to the “Real.” After Lacan’s death, some of his followers severely criticized Ferenczi in Lacan’s name. More recently, however, some Lacanian analysts, surprisedto learn of the secret kinship between these two thinkers, have rediscovered the richness of Ferenzi’s contribution.