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What fascinates us most about Carlo Bonomi’s research work and about his paper in this issue is, on the one hand, the tenacious and systematic way in which he worked over many years on his own hypothesis of the origins of psychoanalysis; and, on the other hand, the degree to which his work and article are both so well rooted in the work and legacy of several generations of historians and analysts. This is how he is able to attribute Emma Eckstein's (1856–1924) circumcision trauma a key role in Freud’s unique ability “to transform a nightmare into a new kind of knowledge,” and how he can reconsider Ferenczi’s original contribution in the light of his attempt to heal the corresponding split in Freud’s work.
Psychoanalysis as an intergenerational research work is also the underlying topic of André Haynal’s short but extremely significant contribution on the history of the collection and transformation of the Ferencziana that he and Judith Dupont inherited. From these, they produced a whole series of posthumous books that did much to change contemporary psychoanalysis, until their donation to the Freud Museum in October 2014.
How Ferenczi met the challenge he inherited from Freud, and how this allowed him to develop a new clinical language, is what allows Franco Borgogno to articulate a whole series of methodological considerations on how better to reconstruct this new language's evolution and development and how to present it as an organic whole.
The remaining four papers of this issue deal with Herbert Rosenfeld’s life (1910–1986) and with his role as a supervisor in Italy and Germany, that is, with his contribution to the developments that were occurring in these countries at that time. The papers by his daughter Angela Rosenfeld, Franco De Masi, and Claudia Frank were originally given in Nuremberg (Rosenfeld’s native town) at a conference in his memory that we organized together with Ingo Focke, Martin Ehl, and the German Psychoanalytic Society on October 5, 2014; this