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The historic Convitto della Calza in Florence provided the venue for the 13th International Ferenczi Conference, Ferenczi in Our Time and a Renaissance of Psychoanalysis.
For four days in May 2018, it became a forum for members of the International Sándor Ferenczi Network to present their clinical and academic research to a diverse audience of psychoanalysts, psychologists, therapists, psycho-historians, academics, and psychoanalytic trainees. Held every three years, the gathering provides a thinking and debating space for those interested in mining the treasure trove of important ideas that Sándor Ferenczi contributed to the early days of the psychoanalytic movement, and which have proven to be harbingers of contemporary psychoanalytic discourse. Seeds of ideas that he planted in the early part of the 20th Century, had sprouted at the turn of the 21st Century, have borne fruit, and now provide contemporary analysts with much food for thought.
Ferenczi focused on the individual's relatedness to the external world, and how the environment impacted self-development. One of his first papers, Introjection and Transference (1909), outlined how the ego (read self), expands by taking external objects into its internal space to create an internal landscape marked by the vicissitudes of relations with others. One of his final papers, The Confusion of Tongues Between Adults and the Child (1933),