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OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE LIFE and work of Sándor Ferenczi has been greatly filled in recent years, thanks primarily to the work of Hungarian psychoanalysts, such as Michael Balint and Judith Dupont. Balint put together the abridged edition of Ferenczi's Schriften zur Psychoanalyse (Psychoanalytic Writings) in 1970, and wrote the introduction. He also edited Ferenczi's 1932 diary. Balint died before the second volume of Ferenczi's selected works appeared. The completion of this task then fell to Judith Dupont, who wrote the foreword to the second volume and also the beautiful introduction to the Journal clinique(1985), which was published in French. Dupont was also involved in the editing of Ferenczi's correspondence with Groddeck (1982). At present, she and her assistants are preparing a three-volume edition of the Ferenczi-Freud correspondence. Last year saw the publication of A. Haynal's book Technique en question, based on Ferenczi's teachings as reflected in Michael Balint's work. Also deserving mention are Linczenyi's selection of Ferenczi's works in Hungarian (1982), as well as Grünberger's essay (1974) on Ferenczi's relationship to Freud and his "deviation" from Freud's theory. In addition to the contributions of Hungarian psychoanalysts, one should also note the work of H. Dahmer (1978), I. Barande (1972), C. Lorin (1983), and P. Sabourin (1986).
After all this, is there anything new to say about Ferenczi? In 1986, in the course of preparing a paper on the history of Hungarian psychoanalysis, I had occasion to describe Ferenczi's role in