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Vera Şandor invites us, with subtlety, to follow the complex movement of the development of analytic thinking and practice, starting with 1910, the year of Freudian intervention at Nurenberg Psychoanalytic Congress, generosity letting us the freedom to choose an answer to the question: “what does change consist in?”
We recognize alongside her “the destiny lines of psychoanalysis” laid down in this text and, at the same time, we ask ourselves: “in what moment did the crisis of psychoanalysis break out?”
Vera Sandor ponders this crisis as a “proof that psychoanalysis is a living organism, a science that evolves”, as an active entity striving towards complex forms of accomplishment. In this way, she expresses a bold hypothesis, modern, confirmed by the late discoveries in the field of biology (according to which the human organism tends to adopt more and more sophisticated evolutionary forms, at the same time keeping a certain coherence) and also by the Bion-ian hypothesis regarding the complex