It is perhaps no accident that the phrase “six degrees of separation” is traced back to a Hungarian writer, Frigyes Karinthy, and that Karinthy in turn was a good friend of Sándor Ferenczi. If there is one thread that weaves through this edited volume, it is the fascinating web of relationships and interconnections, traversing both literature and science, in which Ferenczi was intimately involved. If the transmission of psychoanalysis in Vienna belonged to the couch, in Budapest it belonged to the coffee house. An era of a different kind of social networking. Throughout this book, the reader is transported back to the cafés on the Erzsébet körút, where the emerging