The Sandor Ferenczi Center at The New School for Social Research
Co-Chairs
- Lewis Aron, PhD, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis: https://files.nyu.edu/la12/public/
- Adrienne Harris, PhD, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis
- Jeremy Safran, PhD, Psychology Department, New School for Social Research and NYU Postdoctoral Program
Organizing Committee
- Eli Zaretsky, PhD, Department of Historical Studies, New School for Social Research
- Simon Critchley, PhD, Philosophy Department, New School for Social Research
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Sandor Ferenczi
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Sandor Ferenczi |
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Ferenczi & Freud |
The goals of the Ferenczi Center include: 1) sponsoring conferences and promoting research, scholarship, and publications regarding Ferenczi, 2) promoting new translations and publications of Ferenczi's writings, and 3) contributing to the ongoing vitality of psychoanalysis as a cultural, intellectual and psychotherapeutic discipline. Similar societies exist throughout Europe and we have established the Ferenczi Center with the enthusiastic support of Judit Meszaros in Budapest; Andre Haynal in Geneva; Judit Szekacs in London; Kathleen Kelley-Lainé and Michelle Moreau Ricaud in Paris; Franco Borgogno and Carlo Bonomi in Italy; Ferenc Erős the Editor of Thalassa, a Hungarian review of psychoanalysis, culture and society; and many of the leading Ferenczi scholars in Europe, as well as Edith Kurzweil, member of The New School for Social Research’s Board of Governors.
Setting the Sandor Ferenczi Center in The New School has historical significance. Ferenczi spent 4 months in New York in 1926 centered on a series of lectures given at The New School, after being invited to the United States by Alvin Johnson, the President of The New School. From his correspondence with Freud in this period, we know that he lectured, saw patients and was involved in key issues in the development of psychoanalysis and training in the United States. Linking the Ferenczi project to The New School reconnects American psychoanalysts to important features of our own history.
It is also of some significance that we established the Ferenczi Center precisely 100 years after Ferenczi's first meeting with Freud in 1908. It is also of historic significance that the Ferenczi Center is housed in a major university since Sandor Ferenczi himself was the first to have been appointed as a Professor of Psychoanalysis at the University of Budapest in 1918.
The Sandor Ferenczi Center Advisory Board
Kathy Bacon-Greenberg
Anthony Bass
Martin Bergmann
Jeanne Wolff Bernstein
Victor Bonfilio
Etty Cohen
Elizabeth Ann Danto
Darlene Ehrenberg
Elsa First
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Jay Frankel
Giselle Galdi
Gerry Gargiulo
Irwin Hirsch
Axel Hoffer
Lewis Kirshner
Robert Langan
Zvi Lothane
Robert Prince
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Arnold Rachman
Therese Ragen
Peter Rudnytsky
Katherine Schwarzenbach
Stephen Seligman
Sue Shapiro
Ann-Louise Silver
Donnel Stern
Judith Vida |
February 12, 7-10 p.m.
9th Floor, 6 East 16th Street
The film was followed by a panel discussion with Zvi Lothane, M.D., Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Jay Frankel, Ph.D., Co-Chair of the Psychoanalytic Investigative Group, Faculty, IPTAR, Adjunct Associate Clinical Professor, NYU Postdoctoral Program.
Following the panel discussion, there was a presentation in honor of Dr. Martin Bergmann.
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Dr. Martin Bergmann speaks after receiving an honorary award
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Dr. Zvi Lothane addresses the audience
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On Jan 12, we held the inaugural event for the The Sandor Ferenczi Center at The New School for Social Research. For the benefit of those who were not able to attend this event, we have provided a link to the inaugural address given by Judit Meszaros, Ph.D., Founding member of The Sandor Ferenczi Society in Budapest. We have also provided links to the introductory remarks given by 1) Adrienne Harris, Ph.D., co-chair of the Ferenczi Center at the New School, and 2) Viktor Polgár, Ambassador, Consul General for The Republic of Hungary.
The Sandor Ferenczi Society has been selected as a recipient of the 2008 Mary S. Sigourney Award for significant contributions to the field of psychoanalysis.
http://www.ferenczisandor.hu/news/index.php?blogid=2
Sponsoring Organizations
The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology
The Sandor Ferenczi Center at the New School for Social Research is affiliated with the International Ferenczi Foundation and the Sándor Ferenczi Society.
Related Links:
International Sandor Ferenczi Foundation:
http://www.ferenczi.it/foundation.ferenczi.it/
The Italian Ferenczi Society
The Associazione Culturale S ndor Ferenczi
(Carlo Bonomi and Franco Borgogno)
http://www.ferenczi.it
The Ferenczi House project
www.ferenczi.it/house.ferenczi.it
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