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IT IS ASTONISHING TO REALIZE how the entire psychoanalytic community, with few exceptions, readily accepted Jones' declaration that Ferenczi was insane during the last three years of his life. Jones supported his assertion on the basis of statements of a witness of Ferenczi's last days, a witness whose name Jones refused to reveal and who, to this day, has never been found. Yet most known witnesses deny categorically this so called madness of Ferenczi.
Following Raymond Aron's aphorism: "A false idea is a real fact, " this ready acceptance of Jones' thesis can be seen as a symptom; a sign of resistance by the psychoanalytic world to something Ferenczi would have wanted to introduce in psychoanalysis.
If, according to Jones, Ferenczi's madness would have erupted during the last three years of his life, it is therefore the whole of Ferenczi's work during those three years that should be discarded as the product of a sick mind.
This concerns essentially the following five papers: