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It is important to acknowledge that Joseph Lichtenberg, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, has contributed to The Ferenczi Renaissance. Since the late 1980s, Ferenczi’s work has been rediscovered spearheaded in the United States by the English translation of his Clinical Diary (Ferenczi 1988). Joe’s sponsorship of a Ferenczi issue, in 1997, (Psychoanalytic Inquiry 17:4) and the present one in 2014, is a significant contribution to the evolution of psychoanalysis because it helps to affirm Ferenczi as a significant figure in psychoanalysis worthy of study and, in particular, provides a scholarly forum to discuss Ferenczi’s contributions for the Self Psychology Perspective. What is more, a Ferenczi issue introduces Self Psychology to a new group of scholars, from both the United States and Europe, who represent a variety of contemporary perspectives.
The first volume on Ferenczi was focused on demonstrating Ferenczi’s relevance as a significant, unappreciated figure in the history of psychology, whose work had relevance for contemporary psychoanalysis. This second volume, “Sándor Ferenczi and the Evolution of Psychoanalysis: Innovations in Theory and Technique,” features articles from analysts in the leading centers for Ferenczi scholarship in Europe and the United States. The contribution of Franco Borgogno, Ph.D., is “A Work in Progress Between Past, Present, and Future: The Dream in/of Sándor Ferenczi,” a rare contribution to Ferenczi’s theory on dream interpretation. It represents an excellent example of the work of one of the leading Ferenczi scholar’s in Italy and Europe, Franco Borgogno. In the last several years, he has, along with another Italian psychoanalyst, Carlo Bonomi, Ph.D., created a foundation that purchased Ferenczi’s villa in Budapest and will turn it into The International Sándor Ferenczi Study Center.
André Haynal, M.D.’s article, “Trauma—Revisited: Ferenczi and Modern Psychoanalysis” represents a new trend in Ferenczi scholarship, wh