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Splitting, fragmenting, and mental agony: the clinical thinking of Sándor Ferenczi

Thierry Bokanowski
- 01 Apr 2004 - 
- Vol. 13, pp 20-25
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The main parameters of this consideration foreshadow those that, in the following decades, were to be at the centre of some of the most significant developments in psychoanalysis, in particular those of M. Klein, W. R. Bion and D. W. Winnicott as mentioned in this paper.
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Following a thorough study of the Clinical Diary (1932), the author aims to put forward Sandor Ferenczi's theoretical discoveries, which allow him to settle a very advanced clinical consideration. The main parameters of this consideration foreshadow those that, in the following decades, were to be at the centre of some of the most significant developments in psychoanalysis, in particular those of M. Klein, W. R. Bion and D. W. Winnicott.

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