TY - JOUR A1 - Borgogno, F. T1 - Sandor Ferenczi's First Paper Considered as a >Calling Card< JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 8 (No. 3, December 1999), pp. 249-256. N2 - Sándor Ferenczi's first paper (1908) on the subject of premature ejaculation – in its stress on the repercussions of the symptom itself in the other (in this case, the woman), rather than its unconscious significance or the patient's pathology – is an early signal of the ethical directions his future clinical work would take. Ferenczi – displaying a decidedly relational, not merely intrapsychic, orientation – underlines the peculiar idiosyncrasies of each partner in the couple and also the fact that any relationship worthy of the name must take place in conditions of mutual pleasure and advantage. In particular, Ferenczi strikes a blow for the >legitimate< needs of the weaker partner to whom the stronger must allow and offer mental space and voice by virtue of his knowledge and power. For the above reasons this first paper is a >calling card< which announces Ferenczi's later reflections on the specific affective qualities that may render the psychoanalytic environment non-traumatic, as well as his criticism of the narcissistic aspects of the analyst (one of the most important motives for subtle and hidden trauma), who views the work of interpretation as the product of a single mind (in my terms: a kind of colonisation and expropriation of the other) rather than as fruit of an encounter that would take into account both the unique characteristics of the partner as well as the rhythms appropriate to such a relationship. Y1 - 1999 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Borgogno, F. T1 - Editorial T2 - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge – Taylor and Francis) Vol. 13 (No. 1-2, 2004), p. 1. Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Borgogno, F. T1 - Why Ferenczi today? The contribution of Sándor Ferenczi to the understanding and healing of psychic suffering JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge – Taylor and Francis) Vol. 13 (No. 1-2, 2004), pp. 5-13 N2 - A society undergoing rapid change, which doubts its own possibilities of survival, calls into question the worth of psychoanalytical theory and practice. The author emphasizes that the Ferenczian clinical evolution could be a source of inspiration for reinvigorating our trust in the prodromes of the Freudian paradigm, and thus for relaunching the authoritativeness of our thought and our psychotherapeutic method. In this light the author examines the affective and cognitive qualities that render Ferenczi a mentor of our possible future development, taking into consideration the following aspects: the communicative and intersubjective perspective that denotes Ferenczi's thought since his first writings; the receptive, reflective, and self-reflective capacities which have progressively accompanied his own commitment and clinical attitude; and his elective work on trauma and >the traumatic<, including the algogenic messages transmitted during the healing process by analysts in fear (and perhaps terror) of their own regression and countertransferential catastrophe. In particular, these last events (central in the Ferenczian vision) are today specifically stimulated by new forms of pathology which search for, with our help, a resolution of the apathetic pain and the tearing apart of the identity that characterize the suffering of patients. Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Borgogno, F. T1 - The relevance of >role reversal< in today's psychoanalytic work JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge – Taylor and Francis) Vol. 17 (No. 4, December 2008), pp. 213-220. Y1 - 2008 ER -