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The editor's note explains that these are the fourth or fifth part of the bulk of the notes, scribbled in four languages, which were found among Ferenczi's papers after his death. The notes were translated into German and published in the Bausteine, Volume IV.
We shall give only the dates and titles of those notes which were already included in Ferenczi's earlier publications: Das unwillkomene Kind und sein Todestrieb1 (Int. Ztschr. f. Psa., IX, 1923); Thalassa2 (1934); The Principle of Relaxation and Neocatharsis (Int. J. Psa., XI, 1930); Kinderanalyse mit Erwachsenen3 (Bausteine, Volume III); Confusion of Tongues Between Adult and Child (Int. J. Psa., XXX, 1949). The others group themselves as follows:
8.10.1930. Oral Erotism in Education.
8.10.1930. Each Adaptation Is Preceded by an Inhibited Attempt at Splitting.
8.10.1930. Autoplastic and Alloplastic Adaptation.
8.24.1930. Thoughts on 'Pleasure in Passivity'.
In these fragments Ferenczi says that 'without far-reaching speculation' one cannot understand the pleasure in bearing 'unpleasure' or even enjoying 'unpleasure'. He qualifies three sources of masochistic pleasure: '1. Admiration for the greatness and power of the opponent … which could be called æsthetic pleasure… 2. Enjoyment of one's own wisdom and intellectual superiority which is compared with the ruthlessly brutal, i.e., completely unintelligent opponent in one's own favor… 3. The acknowledgment and appreciation of the naïve brutality of another ego (or force) has definitely something superior and maternal in it… I have the feeling that with these points the motivation of the pleasure of self-destruction is far from being exhausted…'
8.31.1930. Fundamental Traumatic Effect of Maternal Hatred or of the Lack of Affection.
This note refers to three patients who incessantly complained about maternal rejection from infancy on and who were consequently unable to establish satisfactory object relationships.
3.22.1931. Relaxation and Education.