@article{JimenezAvello, author = {Jim{\´e}nez Avello, J.}, title = {Trauma and healing: from >furor sanandi< to >animus sanandi<}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 13 (No. 1-2, 2004), pp. 39-44.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 13 (No. 1-2, 2004), pp. 39-44.}, abstract = {In his last period (1928-33), Ferenczi tried to complement the 'negative' technical principles first introduced by Freud in the 1910s. He introduced diverse and successive 'positive instructions', and specific techniques known as 'elastic' of 'relaxation and neocatharsis', and also made an unsucessful attempt to introduce 'mutual analysis'. These techniques are implemented around a series of new technical principles including 'tact', 'empathy', 'indulgence', 'intense sympathy'. All of these positive technical principles and innovations demonstrate the importance of considering the dimension of 'healing' in all analytic experiences and the importance of the analyst's functioning as the 'healer'. The emphasis on the use of these new technical principles is consistent with the emphasis Ferenczi places upon countertransference and traumatic factors in psychopathogenesis.}, language = {en} } @article{JimenezAvello, author = {Jim{\´e}nez Avello, J.}, title = {Metapsychology in Ferenczi: Death Instinct or Death Passion?}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 7 (No. 4, December 1998), pp. 229-234.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 7 (No. 4, December 1998), pp. 229-234.}, abstract = {In Freud's perspective the severe clinical phenomena related to repetitioncompulsion depend on death instinct, while according to Ferenczi they depend on severe early traumas provoked by human actions. Concepts and ideas stemming from Ferenczi's posthumous notes seem to be especially relevant for understanding how trauma may result in devastating effects. If a traumatic assault occurs at an early developmental period, which might be described as a ?mimetic period?, causing a displeasure that exceeds the capacity of tolerance of the ego, the ego tries to manage it by a mimetic reproduction of the aggressor's desires. This mimetic reaction leaves an imprint in the subject, which Ferenczi calls >alien transplant<. In line with the idea of an intrusive potential of the environment, Ferenczi also suggests, following Descartes, that the >passions< of the soul are created as a reaction to the suffering inflicted from outside. If we compare Freud's ideas with those of Ferenczi, we find that Ferenczi's concept of >alient transplant< is equivalent to Freud's concept of >death instinct<. In order to make this correspondence apparent, it is suggested to call it >death passion<. This point is illustrated with a clinical vignette.}, language = {en} }