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Although it is generally difficult to pinpoint the exact date of interest in returning Sándor Ferenczi's work to the mainstream of psychoanalysis, the publication of his Clinical Diary, first in French in 1985 (Ferenczi, 1932a) and then in English in 1988 (Ferenczi, 1932b), was a milestone in this process. The Clinical Diary was heralded as a major contribution to the analytic literature (Grosskurth, 1988; Hoffer, 1990; Roazen, 1990; Wolstein, 1990) and educated contemporary analysts to a lost legacy of clinical innovation and daring, not often present, since the pioneering times of psychoanalysis. What is more, the Clinical Diary was seen as a historical link in the development of one of the alternate frameworks within mainstream psychoanalysis (Wolstein, 1989).
The most recent impetus to fuel the Ferenczi Renaissance is the much awaited publication of the Freud/Ferenczi Correspondence, of which two volumes of the three-volume series have just been published (Brabant, Falzeder, and Giampieri-Deutsch, 1993, 1996). Both the extensive content and the large number of the correspondence (1,500