Ferenczi face à l’énigme Schreber : de « l’incident de Palerme » à la découverte de l’intropression

Abstract

After Freud’s death, many psychoanalytic researchers showed a close connection
between the delusional thoughts of D.P. Schreber, commented by
Freud in a famous paper, and the pedagogic methods practised by his father,
D.G. Moritz Schreber, MD, author of many books on child health and education.
Nobody knows what Ferenczi, at the time of the Palermo incident
(1910) could have said about the Schreber case, because of Freud’s refusal to
collaborate in writing the essay. After this event, Ferenczi spent a long time
humiliating himself and submitting to the Master, even though following
his own research, until the discovery of the “intropression of super-Ego,” the
term employed to describe the correlation between real persecution suffered
in early childhood and the “introjection of the aggressor.”

In this article, the author examines the concerns intuitions of the two
protagonists of the “Palermo incident,” accompanying his reflections with
the description of the case of a young, contemporary “Schreber.”