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The paper attempts to present a unified story of the Freud-Ferenczi relationship, focusing on its symbiotic qualities, with the aim of providing the evidence that Ferenczi took over Freund's “heritage of emotion” and further elaborated it. The outspoken ambivalence of Ferenczi was functional to the stability of his relationship with Freud, permitting the pupil to remain intellectually and emotionally close to the master for an extraordinarily long period of time. The kind of relationship which Freud tended to establish with his closest followers was similar to the one between the tragic Hero and the Chorus, which hangs upon his words, accompanies him with feeling of sympathy, and mourns him when he meets the merited punishment. Freud's need to let Ferenczi be worried about his “impeding death” is especially emphasized and related to the pupil's internationalization of the master's death anxiety. This background deeply affected the analysis of Ferenczi with Freud, since he utilized his own analysis for speaking of the internalized disturbing aspects of the master's personality, in a way which foreshadows his later theory of the child (patient) as therapist of the parent (analyst). Finally, it is argued that Ferenczi's regressive theory of genitality represented the accomplishment of a vast and deep psychic process which, by symbolically working out the pathological mourning controlled by and preserved in Freud's phallus cult, enabled him to overcome his intense symbiosis with the master. Ferenczi's less defensive vision of femininity is suggested as a crucial element of this process.