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Psycho-analysis started from the trauma, but in the course of its development interest came to be centred more on the general laws governing mental development. The difference is one of accent. In the one case, the individual himself, in the other, the supra-individual laws of his being occupy the foreground. Ferenczi was primarily interested in the individual as such.
A brief historical note on Ferenczi's work in relation to the trauma follows.