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My relationship to the IFP in the context of the original construction of our identity as a journal
(2016)
The author presents the context within which the editorial approach of the International Forum of Psychoanalysis was originally constructed, and the identity of its editorial board established, most of whose phases he was personally able to participate in. Particularly important was the role of the founding editor, Jan Stensson, in establishing not only the network sustaining the journal, its aims, and its working routines, but also the analytic methodology of reciprocal and careful listening, which makes our work as members of the editorial board a highly worthwhile professional experience. This is the legacy that the author further developed in his work with Jan Stensson's successor, Christer Sjödin (2007–2014), and that he shares with the new coeditor-in-chief, Grigoris Maniadakis.
The author explores the relationship between Sándor Ferenczi and Sigmund Freud in the light of their correspondence. This allows us to see how Freud was able to offer and create for Ferenczi a >professional and personal home< that enabled the latter to find a much more meaningful and creative contact with himself. According to the author, this experience played an important role in Ferenczi’s later readiness to offer to and create with his patients a similar >psychoanalytic home.< As Freud was not able to share such clinical research work with Ferenczi, a conflict developed between them whose nature has occupied psychoanalysts ever since, and whose seeds can be found in the 1246 letters that they exchanged between January 1908 and May 1933. From this point of view, Ferenczi’s Clinical diary (written in 1932 and published only in 1985) can be seen as the continuation of the dialogue they had entertained for so many years, as well as Ferenczi’s attempt not to give up the “professional and personal home” that they had created together.