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This is the second Special Issue containing a selection from the papers of the 7th International Sándor Ferenczi Conference, which was held in Buenos Aires in 2009. The two Special Issues were guest edited by Dr. Pedro J. Boschan, the Chair of the Conference. The first was published in December of 2011 (American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2011, Vol. 70/4). The papers published in this issue were selected and edited by Dr. Boschan.
The central theme of the Buenos Aires Conference was introjection and transference. As Dr. Boschan explained in the First Issue: introjection—a concept created by Ferenczi in 1909—, projection and transference highlighted the importance of the relationship with external reality in the structuring of the psyche. The lasting acknowledgment of the effects of reality on our psyche has important ideological consequences in psychoanalysis, from a theoretical, technical and ethical point of view (Boschan, 2011, p. 302).
While in the final phase of the production of the Second Issue, before he had a chance to write his introduction, Dr. Boschan died. The psychoanalytic community is mourning a beloved colleague. We know that he will continue to live in the hearts of his family, friends, patients and his work will lastingly represent him. Daniel Tosso remembers Dr. Boschan in the In Memoriam section at the end of this issue.
Jose Jimenez Avello's paper opens the issue: “With Ferenczi, contemporary psychoanalysis is Other”. Jimenez Avello, from Madrid, describes the essential aspects of Ferenczi's theoretical concepts and their technical and clinical impact on contemporary psychoanalysis. “The Other means not only that we are not the same as decades ago, but that psychoanalysis is much more flexible than the rigid practices to which Ferenczi objected so much. Other means a different understanding of human subjectivity” wrote Dr. Boschan (2011, p. 302).
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