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Psychoanalysis is seen as one of the most influential intellectual trends of 20th century, which came into being in Vienna at the end of the nineteenth century. Psychoanalysis profoundly changed the prevailing concept of the human psyche and established a theoretical and practical basis for modern psychological treatment. Its intellectual and cultural spread is still significant.
The most significant representative of Psychoanalysis in Budapest was the neurologist Sándor Ferenczi. He met Freud in 1908. Because he worked in a hospital, he met a large number of patients and his rich experience and exceptional personality had a decisive influence on Hungarian psychoanalysis. He had a lively relationship with the most prominent intellectuals of Hungary of that age, for example Gyula Krúdy, Frigyes Karinthy and Dezso Kosztolányi. He also had an impact on Mihály Babits's and László Nemeth's work. Although Ferenczi was one of Freud's most significant collaborators for 25 years, they put a different emphasis on various aspects of their work during their working lives. Ferenczi was primarily concerend with healing. In contrast to this, Freud concieved himself primarily as a scientist and a researcher. He did not want to find the cures for illnesses, he rather wanted to explore and understand them. It was no accident that Ferenczi was called "the expert of the hopeless cases". His devoted, understanding and generous behaviour as a doctor made him also famous among those psychologically ill patients whose chances of recovery had already been given up by other physicians. Ferenczi often refered to the capabilities psychoanalysis had in forming society and the importance of pedagogy. Not only the inner processes going on in people's mind captured his interest but also the relationship between the patient and the psychoanalyst. As opposed to Freud, who considered the analyst's neutral behaviour to be the pledge of psychoanalysis, Ferenczi rather believed in the healing power of a more active behaviour on the doctor's part. This was the fact in which he renewed psychoanalytic thinking.
He was the founder of the Hungarian Psychoanalytic Association in 1913. Among his most significant students we can mention the name of Michael Balint, who from 1939 on continued his praxis in England and Imre Hermann who ensured the continuity of psychoanalysis in Hungary after the Second World War. An interesting and special representative of the so called Budapest School was Géza Róheim, who made his mark in the field of anthropology and psychoanalysis. In these conversations, we trace the history of the Budapest School.
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1993 - 53 min. - video
Directed by • Péter Forgács
Consultants • Dr. György Gergely, Dr. Márta Fülöp
Narrators • Ági Csere, János Kulka
Camera • Gábor Ferenczi, Péter Forgács, István Jávor
Sound • Kati Gulyás
Assistant • Zsuzsa Ujj
Editor • Márta Révész
BBS line producer • Ferenc Komjáthy
HTV Rt. / FMS line producers • Gyula Kovács, István Szalai, András Tóth
FMS-HTV producer • Jolán Árvai
list of participants
Dr. André Haynal (Geneva), training analyst
Dr. Béla Buda, psychiatrist
Dr. Ferenc Erős, social psychologist
Dr. Kinga Göncz, psychoanalyst
Dr. Béla Grünberger (Paris), training analyst
Dr. György Hidas, training analyst
Dr. Livia Nemes, training analyst
Dr. István Székács, psychoanalyst
Dr. Gábor Paneth, training analyst
Dr. Csaba Pléh, professor of psychology
Dr. György Vikár, training analyst produced by
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