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On May 3–6, 2018, the International Sándor Ferenczi Network chaired by Carlo Bonomi organized the 13th International Sándor Ferenczi Conference, with the title “Ferenczi in our time – A Renaissance for psychoanalysis.” This took place in Florence, at the Convitto La Calza, not far from Palazzo Pitti, in the “Oltrarno” part of town. Around 350 colleagues from more than 20 countries spent four very intense days together working and getting to know each other here.
The first Sándo Ferenczi Conference took place in New York City in 1991, inspired by Stephen Mitchell, and organized by Lew Aron (1952–2019) and Adrienne Harris, the editors of the 1993 volume The legacy of Sándor Ferenczi. In Issue 4/1998 of this journal, Carlo Bonomi edited a selection of the papers presented at the fourth of these conferences, held in Madrid (Bonomi, 1998). In Issue 1–2/2004, Franco Borgogno edited the best papers presented at the seventh conference, held in Turin in 2002 (Borgogno, 2004). And in Issue 1/2014 Carlo Bonomi and Franco Borgogno edited a collection of papers presented at the 11th Conference, held in 2012 in Budapest (Bonomi & Borgogno, 2014). The 12th Conference took place in Toronto in 2015, and the next one will take place in Sao Paulo in May 2021. Last but not least, a first selection of papers from the Florence conference appeared in Issue 4/2018 of the American Journal of Psychoanalysis (Koritar, 2018).
In the first article of this issue, “Freud–Ferenczi correspondence, revisited,” Ernst Falzeder and Eva Erhart (his daughter, an anthropologist) revisit the 1246 letters exchanged by Ferenczi and Freud between February 1908 and May 1933, proposing some of the most interesting, significant, and dramatic formulations through which Ferenczi and Freud tried to understand each other and to create what is perhaps the most fascinating relationship from the history of psychoanalysis. The authors end up agreeing with Peter Lomas’s amazement at Ferenczi’s courage, a virtue that also c