Ferenczi's impact on the history of psychoanalysis has been discussed and researched from various viewpoints in recent decades. Here we turn our attention once again to the debate on technique, which ultimately led to the break with Freud. Undoubtedly, his technical experiments were problematic and could not be sustained in this form. Nevertheless, he raised correct questions about abstinence, the position of interpretation, and the binding of feelings in transference and countertransference. His approaches were often rediscovered and adopted by others without reference to him. His importance for the technique of modern analytic psychotherapy must be considered as very important. In the following we will deal with these issues and their history.